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STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —While today's economy is rough, rags-to-riches entrepreneur John Paul DeJoria says the situation pales compared to the 1980s when he launched his hair care products company with $700, selling door to door in Los Angeles out of the trunk of his car.
Back then,...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Alumni entrepreneurs stepped away from the heady world of running things to discuss that world and compare notes on hiring, firing, and promoting employees during an event at the Graduate School of Business May 9.
It was the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies'...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Since a devastating earthquake occurred off the northeastern coast of Japan on March 11, the leadership abilities of many Japanese business executives are being tested. Among them are graduates of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. About 650 GSB alums...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS -- Andy Katz-Mayfield, MBA class 2011, has a resume that highlights his time with national consulting and equity investing firms. Danielle Weiss, a physician, recently completed a fellowship in endocrinology at Stanford Hospital and Clinics.
In the normal flow...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —When Paul Auerbach arrived at the University Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the January 2010 earthquake, he faced a sea of death and misery the likes of which he'd never seen. A thousand people were critically injured or ill, buildings were in ruin...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS-Costa Rica is striving to be a mecca for ecotourism as well as high-technology business the nation's president Laura Chinchilla told a Stanford Graduate School of Business audience.
While best known for its commitment to environmental protection, Chinchilla...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Computer and one of Silicon's Valley's most successful college dropouts, wowed an overflow crowd at Stanford's Bishop Auditorium Thursday in the academic year's final View From the Top lecture.
Dressed in his usual long-...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Why would anyone want to invest money in the airline industry? As Southwest Airlines chairman and former CEO Herb Kelleher told an amused Stanford audience April 24, "It really is a horrible business! It's capital intensive, labor intensive, fuel intensive,...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — While industries from manufacturing to health care have adopted technology to improve their results, the education field remains heavily reliant on "chalk and talk" instruction conducted in traditional settings.
However, that's starting to change as schools...
MONTERREY, Mexico – Lorenzo Zambrano, who transformed the Mexico-based cement firm CEMEX from a domestic player into a global powerhouse that is now one of the world’s largest suppliers of building materials, has been awarded the Stanford Graduate School of Business Excellence in Leadership Award...