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STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—A plan by global financial regulators to fix the mess created by the misuse of credit default swaps is flawed, says Darrell Duffie, professor of finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
In a preliminary research paper, Duffie, and GSB doctoral...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—The March 31, 2004, Financial Accountings Standards Board (FASB)proposal for expensing stock options is reigniting an already heated battle. Companies like AIG, Citigroup, Coca-Cola, General Electric, Randal are already expensing or planning to expense employee...
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...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—One need look no further than Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's use of interest rates to manage the stock market and the economy to realize that expectations play a key role in economic well-being. In recent years, economists have learned a great deal...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—The question of when to set up management control systems such as financial planning and monitoring tools haunts most entrepreneurs involved in startup operations. Until recently, there was little research on the topic, but a new study by Antonio Davila,...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—The single biggest factor contributing to the astronomically rising cost of healthcare is the emergence of expensive new technology. Science is finding more effective ways of treating diseases and extending life, but at a substantial cost. How much are we—and...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—In a band 1,000 kilometers above Earth, a growing collection of mechanical debris is accumulating. Old rocket boosters, retired satellites, and even pieces of an intentionally exploded Chinese satellite threaten to destroy millions of dollars worth of orbiting...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Releasing genetically modified male mosquitoes could eliminate the danger of dengue fever and other mosquito-borne diseases within a year in communities of up to a million people, according to a research paper released today.
Health professionals have tried...
Using Washington, D.C. as a Model, Study Urges Sheltering Option as Saving Tens of Thousands of Lives Versus Evacuation
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS -- Stanford University experts have concluded that in the event of a nuclear detonation, people in large metropolitan areas are better off...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - It was the wildest of wild rides. In mid-January of 2007, crude oil futures on the NYMEX Exchange closed at $52 a barrel. Eighteen months later, a relentless climb had pushed prices to an all-time, inflation-adjusted high of $145 a barrel. World markets...