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More than a decade ago, David Dodson was running an auto parts retailer in Massachusetts. Then a brief trip to Honduras with his wife, Stephanie, changed his career — and his life. While traveling through the country, they were shocked to find hundreds of children suffering from neural tube...
Trae Vassallo is a venture capitalist and a former entrepreneur. She is currently a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capital firms. Prior to joining the firm in 2003, Vassallo was a cofounder of Good Technology, a mobile...
There are any number of ways for highly paid people to find jobs that will net them even higher paying jobs. LinkedIn, Dice, and Monster are just some of the tech-fueled internet sites that professionals use to move up the career ladder. But what about the gardener or barista who is looking for...
The proxy fight at JPMorgan Chase & Co. over whether to separate the roles of chairman and chief executive — and thus strip Jamie Dimon of the title of chairman — has become a media spectacle and a Rorschach test for arguments about CEO power, shareholder rights, and Dimon himself.
Two major...
It’s hard to believe now, but top U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve officials were remarkably sanguine in September 2008 about a possible collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
“I never once considered it appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line,” declared Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson...
When Olivia “Mandy” O'Neill entered the PhD program at Stanford in 2000, the question she most wanted to answer was one that had been puzzling researchers and employers alike: Why were promising professional women failing to realize their potential in the workforce? Previous research into this...
Jessica Jackley is a cofounder of Kiva, a nonprofit based in San Francisco that allows people to lend small amounts of money to borrowers throughout the world. Since it was founded in October 2005, Kiva has initiated loans to more than a million people, including a seamstress in Paraguay, a...
Can a macho workplace shed its machismo? It happened on an oil rig, that most macho of work environments, say researchers who found that crew members on an offshore platform toned down their bluster and macho as they concentrated on a company program to improve workplace safety.
The scholars —...
Stanford Graduate School of Business has renamed its legacy Sloan Master's Program the Stanford MSx Program for experienced leaders, reflecting strategic changes in the program over the last two years. The formal name of the program will now be the Stanford Master of Science in Management for...