Digital Technology
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Twenty years ago this June, the United Nations convened a conference in Rio de Janeiro that came to be seen as a watershed moment in what is widely called “sustainable development.” Representatives of 172 governments and more than 2,000 non-governmental...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Like most people, Google’s Jared Cohen once thought of Bluetooth as a tool to “let you talk and drive at the same time.” But in 2004, as he walked the streets of Shiraz, Iran, he saw its revolutionary potential: Young adults were connecting with one another...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — The U.S. economy is still sluggish, but venture capitalists, who spoke to an audience of nearly 150 investors, students, and faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business on Dec. 6, said the outlook for early- and late-state investing is bullish....
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — When he graduated from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with an MBA in 2005, Nigerian-born Tayo Oviosu said advice from the business world in his home country was loud and clear—"don't come back."
At that time, he explained, "Nigeria was still about...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Guy Kawasaki, a tech venture capitalist and author, who worked for Apple in the 1980s and 1990s, said he learned plenty from Steve Jobs, the company's late cofounder and CEO.
At the top of the list: ignore self-appointed experts bearing bad business news — a...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—"The Minority Report," Steven Spielberg's sci-fi movie release in 2002 has the following scene. John Anderton (Tom Cruise), after having eyeballs replaced to escape police detection, walks into an apparel store (the Gap). The camera in the store scans his eyes...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Getting a product from the back of a napkin to the customer is the dream of every entrepreneur. Yet young companies typically go to market and ramp up a sales force before they are really ready, which means they inevitably burn through cash, fail to meet...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—We live in an extraordinary time. The Internet and related technologies have opened new forms of communication, reduced the costs of many kinds of market interactions, and brought firms and consumers around the globe into closer proximity than ever before. At...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Open source software — where the source code for programs, such as the Linux kernel and popular applications provided by Red Hat and similar software companies is freely available — has become a major and fast-growing presence in recent years. New research...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —In 2001, when Hewlett-Packard’s then-CEO Carly Fiorina announced that the technology giant proposed to merge with Compaq Computer Corp., she set off a firestorm of controversy. Michael Dell, CEO of rival Dell Computer, famously called it “the dumbest deal of...