Global
The school is renowned for its use of innovative educational approaches that take students beyond business theory by emphasizing hands-on management experience, intensive small-group seminars, and immersive global and social innovation study trips.
Curricular innovations include:
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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 — Among the most complex contributors to poverty in developing nations are lack of access to savings and credit by individuals, poor management practices in industry, operational inefficiencies among entrepreneurs, and bribery throughout supply...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—The latest new industry being explored by entrepreneurs is Big Data — the collection, storage, analysis, use, and monetization of the flood of information and personal data being generated in an increasingly digital world. At the recent Stanford Graduate School...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — By now, nearly everyone knows that the financial meltdown of 2007, and the subsequent recession, began with the collapse of the housing market and the subprime securities market, the funder of millions of mortgages.Understanding exactly what happened, and why...
Sir, Bankers say whatever serves their interests. William Isaac, Chair of Fifth Third Bankcorp, and Richard Kovacevich, former Wells Fargo chief executive, repeat standard and flawed arguments against what they call “breathtaking“ levels of equity such as 9 percent. Many others argue that...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — When Laurent Demuynck began growing mushrooms in Rwanda two years ago, he wanted to help solve a social problem and also be profitable.
“I took the twin concepts of ‘social’ and ‘enterprise’ seriously,” said Demuynck, a 1995 graduate of the business school...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — By capitalizing on its educated labor pool, proximity to Israel, and technical strength, information technology has become the fastest-growing part of the Palestinian economy, speakers told a daylong conference cosponsored by the MBA student Middle East and...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Social entrepreneur Rupert Scofield says people in the world's poorest nations can relate to what's driving Occupy Wall Street demonstrators to the streets of the United States.
"Their basic message is: 'This system doesn't work for us anymore. It's not...