Organizations
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Most business executives in the United States believe strongly in the virtues of competition, not only between organizations but within them as well. Competition fits the cultural emphasis on individualism in the United States, where a social Darwinist...
Sucker to Saint and Other Views of Our Moral Behavior
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—We live in an era of environmental awareness, corporate social responsibility, and financial crises and scandals such as Enron. In this climate, the mission of business schools to understand the ethical...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Huge salary imbalances between CEOs and the people who work for them can send bad vibes throughout an organization, weakening loyalty and eroding the talent pool, says Charles O'Reilly, director of the Business School's Center for Leadership Development and...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Offering financial incentives to motivate employees and executives has been a common management practice for decades. Car salesmen get higher commissions for selling more automobiles. Teachers get bonuses when their students score higher on standardized tests...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Nike overhauled labor practices in its suppliers' overseas factories after it was targeted by activists campaigning against sweatshop conditions. Faced with criticism on many fronts, Wal-Mart embarked on a strategy to burnish its reputation and improve or...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —How do you pay your sales force in a way that motivates them to do the best job possible? The U.S. economy spends an estimated $800 billion annually compensating sales forces, almost three times the amount devoted to advertising, yet sales force compensation...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—It's almost axiomatic that business is a Darwinian struggle. But what that means is far from clear. Do businesses, like living creatures, survive because they learn to adapt to a changing environment? Or, like dinosaurs, are they unable to change and thus die...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—In the early 1950s, 300 actors, writers and others suspected of being communists were blacklisted in Hollywood and excluded from the workforce. A recent study, coauthored by Professor Hayagreeva Rao of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, analyzes how...
Sub-Saharan Africa bears a disproportionate burden of the current global HIV/AIDS epidemic. In 2008, the region accounted for 67% of HIV infections and 72% of the AIDS-related deaths worldwide. Rapid growth in international donor funding to combat the HIV epidemic has placed an enormous additional...
Flight delays have been a growing issue and they have reached an all-time high in recent years, with the airlines’ on-time performance at its worst level in 2007 since 1995. A recent report by the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress has estimated that the total cost to the U.S....