Leadership
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Leadership. Innovation. Simple solutions. Those are principles instilled in students at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. They are also principles Penny Pritzker, JD/MBA '84, calls upon to help improve the quality of education for America's...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — “Define your dream and chase it with as much rigor and authenticity as you can muster,” entrepreneur and philanthropist Jeff Skoll advised Stanford Graduate School of Business 2010 graduates.
“Arguably, most all of you are already successful according to...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —When I boarded the plane for my 47-hour journey to South Africa, I honestly did not know what to expect. I was hoping to be inspired by the country's optimism and the ability of its people to succeed, despite the crushing odds. I was worried that the trip...
Dean Saloner, thank you for the warm welcome. Today marks a full turning point for us, Dean. When I was a student here, and I was co-editor of The Reporter, you didn't answer my calls. Then when I was busy starting eBay, I didn't answer your calls. Then you became the first holder of the...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS.— The Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford will offer a new Design Thinking Boot Camp: From Insights to Innovation July 14-16. The executive education program is aimed at organizational leaders who are...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —When it comes to negotiation strategies, it is not always wise to wait for the other side to make the first offer, to suppress emotions during bargaining, or to reveal too much too early, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Margaret Neale told...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS -- Pixar thrives because it seeks out small crises, said Ed Catmull, the animation studio's president and cofounder.
Rather than skate on the success of animated hits such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles, Pixar's executive team continually...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —While brands are typically associated with for-profit corporations, successful nonprofit organizations should also be aware of and try to manage the way they are portrayed and perceived in public.
Jennifer Aaker, the General Atlantic Professor of Marketing at...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Meetings with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Israeli elder statesman and Nobel laureate Shimon Peres and former Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, and former Philippine President Corazon Aquino highlighted winter holiday 2005 study trips organized by...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—For Rong Xu, the Stanford Graduate School of Business Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship was the answer to four years of searching. The biomedical informatics graduate student at the School of Medicine had made a point of taking business classes before—a...