Education
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — When global banker Robert L. Joss became dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1999, the school’s current tagline — Change lives. Change organizations. Change the world. — did not exist. By the time he stepped down from that position in 2009, it...
Fall 2008
The changing landscape of education, with its increased emphasis on accountability, puts greater pressure on administrators to acquire skills more traditionally aligned with leaders from a business background. Louise Bryson, AM ’69 and MBA ’79, and her husband, John, AB ’65, see this...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — When Salman Khan first started tutoring friends and relatives in math over the internet in 2004, he never imagined that the lessons someday would go viral on YouTube. They certainly weren’t much to look at: just a friendly, disembodied voice and an...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — "Bigger! Faster! Stronger! Smarter than before!"
With that rallying cry, nearly 400 scrubbed and suited MBA students left the Schwab Residential Center on Dec. 7 and strode more or less confidently across the street to the Knight Management Center. The...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Back in the 1970s, Stanford professor Myra Strober wanted to understand how elementary school teaching became an occupation dominated by women. The trouble was the young economists in her interdisciplinary research group focused on statistical data from the...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Urban schools and those with lower-performing students tend to employ the least qualified teachers. But contrary to popular belief, this might not just be due to the fact that teachers prefer working with higher-performing kids.
New research shows that teachers...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—The United States once produced the highest percentage of bachelor's degrees in the world but now trails behind five other countries including Canada, Japan, and South Korea. Nearly 80 percent of the nation's post-secondary students attend non-selective four-...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—At some point in your life, you've probably checked off a box on a form that asks you to specify your ethnicity. But educational and governmental organizations are under increasing pressure to include a multiracial option rather than forcing individuals with...