Publications

AI is revolutionizing industrial value chains by accelerating operations, enhancing supply chain resilience, and mitigating critical labor shortages. To realize these gains, companies must first bridge potentially significant data gaps while…

On October 23, 2025, Amazon and the Value Chain Innovation Initiative at Stanford Graduate School of Business co-hosted the inaugural Supply Chain Summit, bringing together close to 50 supply chain executives and academics for a day-long…

How can humans make sense of the rapid takeoff of artificial intelligence (AI)? We studied the sensemaking dynamics of AI through an open-ended, mixed-methods study with computational text analysis of millions of AI-related newspaper articles and…

The Fed is now growing its balance sheet roughly in step with the quantity of reserve balances needed by banks within each day to make timely payments to each other. Systemically important banks also demand large quantities of reserve balances to…

While companies today are less exposed to defined employee benefits than they were in the past, the lessons from historical restructuring transactions in these areas can and have been applied to other types of nondebt liability claims. These…

What if “old wine in new bottles” is actually the secret to game-­changing innovation? The authors explore what they call precedents thinking, illustrating how radical breakthroughs such as Henry Ford’s assembly line and Reed Hastings’s…

This report describes insights gleaned from the Data Fellows collaboration between PayPal and the Golub Capital Social Impact Lab at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. By embedding researchers in PayPal’s charitable giving team,…

Despite recent backlash against and cuts to organizational DEI initiatives, researchers from the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab argue that DEI isn’t dead in the U.S. Instead, they say it’s experiencing a period of what social…

Venture capitalists’ unique approach to investment and innovation has played a pivotal role in launching one-fifth of the largest U.S. public companies. And three-quarters of the largest U.S. companies founded in the past 50 years would not have…

The Massachusetts Firearms Records Bureau recently published administrative data covering the universe of legal firearm transactions in the state. We use these data to validate state-level background checks as a proxy for firearm transactions and…

Many corporate venture capital initiatives (CVCs) don’t deliver on their potential to bolster innovation. Research finds that these units often fit awkwardly within their parent companies, fail to meet their goals, or lack clear objectives. The…

The authors of this piece, both professors at Stanford University, devoted eight years to learning about how leaders serve as trustees of others’ time — how they prevent and remove the organizational obstacles that undermine the zeal, damage the…

China’s financial system has been integral to its spectacular economic growth over the past 40 years. We review the recent literature on China’s financial system and its connections to the Chinese economy based on the categories of Aggregate…

Mastering the art of spontaneous speaking is important for leaders. They must do more than just deliver a good prepared keynote — they need to nail the Q&A and small talk afterward, or crush off-the-cuff toasts and speeches. The author…

If you want to be an effective communicator, you’re going to need to know how to pitch your ideas, concepts, and perspectives to others in both professional environments and day-to-day interactions. To be effective, a pitch needs to be…

Grabbing and keeping your audience’s focus is critical to communication success. What you have to say is important, so give yourself the best chance to convey your message to your audience by first gaining attention, but then, more importantly,…

Blockchain explorers are important tools for quick look-ups of on-chain activities. However, as centralized data providers, their reliability remains under-studied. As a case study, we investigate Beaconcha.in , a leading explorer serving…