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The following address was delivered by Garth Saloner during the 2013 Stanford GSB graduation ceremony.
Graduates, John Donahoe, honored guests, faculty, staff, families and friends, welcome to the 2013 Graduation Ceremony at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
At FOAM, in a time-...
Americans frequently debate why wages are growing for the college-educated but declining for those with less education. What is less well-known is that communities and local labor markets are also diverging economically at an accelerating rate.
A closer look at the 300-plus metropolitan areas of...
More than a dozen social scientists, business school professors, and other experts on compassion gathered at the "Compassion & Business" conference held at Stanford University on April 30. Olivia “Mandy” O’Neill, a 2005 PhD graduate of Stanford Graduate School of Business who has studied the...
Beth Gerstein started out as a biomedical/electrical engineer and satellite architect, and now spends her days selling the romance of sparkly baubles. She offers Earth-friendly, ethically sourced jewelry while running a profitable online business. Gerstein and her cofounder, Eric Grossberg,...
A great idea alone will not fuel innovation. Big ideas need stories that take listeners on a journey that changes how they think, feel, or act. Stanford University’s new online course, The Power of Stories to Fuel Innovation, will teach participants to understand the role story plays in developing...
Eight years ago, Lee Scott, then CEO of Wal-Mart, made the first speech in the company’s history broadcast to all of its associates. In that speech, Scott committed the company to the goals of being 100 percent supplied by renewable energy, creating zero waste, and selling products that sustain...
Three Stanford Graduate School of Business professors — one from Germany, one from Russia, and one from Taiwan — were honored by students this week for their extraordinary skill in the art of teaching.
Anne Beyer, associate professor of accounting, was presented with the 2013 MBA Distinguished...
It makes intuitive sense: If you want to want to tackle the epidemic of obesity among adults, try stopping it in childhood.
Around the country, hospitals and other health care providers have set up intensive six-month programs to treat obese children as young as 6. Children and their parents get...
Ian Kazi Shakil is cofounder of Augmedix, a stealthy company building an app for medical doctors on Google’s Glass eyewear computing device. Shakil studied biomedical engineering at Duke University and then worked for Edwards Lifesciences, which makes heart valves that can be implanted without...
One of the first female faculty members at Stanford Graduate School of Business, labor economist Myra Strober focused attention on gender issues in the workplace and the economics of child care — subjects that still confound families and spark impassioned debate. A professor of education as well...