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Perched on Franklin “Pitch” Johnson’s desk is a four-inch steel ingot, a silent reminder of his first civilian job out of business school: a melter foreman in charge of several open-hearth furnaces in a steel mill in East Chicago, Ind. In 1962 Johnson left behind the grit and swelter of the mill...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — As a medical resident three decades ago, Bill Frist came to the Stanford Medical Center to work with famed heart-transplant surgeon Norman Shumway because Frist’s superiors at Massachusetts General felt transplanting hearts was too expensive. Today,...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Business and government leaders, entrepreneurs, academics, and students gather this week at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for the 2012 Healthcare Innovation Summit to examine the forces shaping the future of health care and discuss practical...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Can strategic applications of mobile technology yield benefits in the developing world? Stanford professor Joshua Cohen thinks so. But he also emphasizes that applications need to pay careful attention to design and to be founded on strong relationships. His...
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 shifting consumer market for video entertainment may be causing sweeping changes in the video rental market but Netflix has still left an indelible mark with its revolutionary patented business model that includes open-ended rentals for a fixed fee.
Rather...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Innovation, to paraphrase a remark by Thomas Edison, is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. But individualist that he was, Edison probably never thought about the effect of employee compensation on innovation.
The role of compensation as a motivating force...
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 —Jeff Raikes, who grew up on a Nebraska farm, dreamed of a career setting agriculture policy for the U.S. government when he came to Stanford in the 1970s. Three decades later, he influences agriculture in a way he never dreamed. As CEO of the Bill &...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — In 1974, Narayana Murthy was detained at a railroad station in Bulgaria for almost five days without food and water. His crime? During a train trip he spoke with a local woman about the travails of living in an Iron Curtain country. Throughout that long...