Economics
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Consumer and environmental groups, angry over the spreading oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, are calling for a boycott of BP, the oil giant that owns the well gushing oil onto beaches and marshes.
While the debate continues on how to actually boycott BP (...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—When Fox decided to make the movie Titanic, the studio called upon Paramount to put up $65 million to help finance the film in exchange for a portion of profits and movie rights. Fox covered its derriere by sharing risk for the picture through the co-financing...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—In 2006, spinach producers were hit by an outbreak of E. coli contamination that ground the industry to a halt as all spinach-based food products were yanked from the U.S. market. This nightmare scenario is a particularly dramatic example of the kind of...
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...
February 15, 2011
Sir,
Mr. Isaac ("Banks should be allowed to pay out dividends", February 9) supports higher capital requirements, but argues that preventing profitable banks from paying "reasonable" dividends impedes bank lending and economic growth. We disagree.
Paying dividends...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—The study of diversity in the workplace has taken on new importance as changing economics prompt many companies to downsize and restructure themselves into flatter, more decentralized entities. The result is that today's corporations are built around groups...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—IN THE LAST 25 YEARS, many and perhaps most significant innovations in economics have been driven by the use of game theory, which provides economists with a language and analytical tools to study many economic interactions that older tools, such as price...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—The following release describes research by Professor Robert J. Flanagan of the Stanford Graduate School of Business that will be presented at the International Labor Standards Conference at the Stanford Law School on May 20. The broadest survey of its kind,...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—If you sold a house anywhere in the country within the past 20 years, chances are you made something of a killing. Housing prices have risen steadily for decades, up 7 percent a year since 1995—and as much as 12 percent a year in the San Francisco Bay Area....
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—"What is a tenured professor going to teach me about the market economy?" asked Scott McNealy, MBA '80, chairman and chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems, when he spoke before students at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Notably skeptical of...