Finance
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Pulin Sanghvi has been named assistant dean and director of the Career Management Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. A seasoned management consultant, corporate recruiter, and career advisor, Sanghvi brings to his new position direct...
STANFORD UNIVERSITY —U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and a leading energy policymaker, met with faculty and staff involved in Stanford University's new Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, on Jan. 11, to discuss deploying...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—When Jeff Epstein earned his MBA from Stanford in 1979 and went to work for Boston Consulting Group on Sand Hill Road, he didn't know about a young company a mile away—a company that would later become Oracle.
Three decades later, Epstein is the chief...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Six Business School professors have been honored with new endowed chair titles. Honored with new academic titles are Professors Anat Admati, Jonathan Berk, Charles Jones, Dale Miller, Jesper Sørensen, and Sarah Soule.
Anat Admati, a financial economics...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty members Ilya Strebulaev, Baba Shiv, and Alan Jagolinzer were honored with 2009 Distinguished Teaching Awards by students in the School’s MBA, PhD, and Sloan Master’s Program, respectively.
Strebulaev, an associate...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Thirty-eight members of the MBA class of 1968 joined nearly 400 other guests at a February dinner to honor John H. Scully as the School's 32nd Arbuckle Award Winner. Scully founded SPO Partners, a private investment company and merchant bank, two years after...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—In rural India, a loan of $50 can spell the difference between poverty and economic self-sufficiency for an entire family. Such is the power of microlending, a form of finance that is helping to eradicate poverty in countries all over the world. Vinod Khosla,...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Actress and activist Natalie Portman called on an audience of students at Stanford University to think of ways they can help the world’s poor.
Speaking recently about microfinance and her work with FINCA International, a nonprofit that provides financial...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - "Live by your own personal compass and speak honestly and openly. If you do that, you'll be fine." That was the simple advice offered by Herb Allison at this year's Graduate School of Business commencement ceremony on June 11.
Allison, who received his...
The following is a pre-written transcript of the commencement address given by Herb Allison In the 40 years since Allison graduated from the GSB with an MBA in 1971, he has led a multifaceted career in the world of finance, in both the private and public sectors. In his 28 years at Merrill Lynch...