A Look Back at 2014
Explore 10 Stanford Business stories from 2014, including pieces on happiness and networking.
December 11, 2014
1. Ten Tips for Building Stronger Networks in Work and Life
How to connect to the people who matter.
Illustration by Erik Marinovich
2. Eric Bettinger: Why Stay-at-Home Parents are Good for Older Children
Parental presence isn’t just for infants and toddlers.
Reuters/Nacho Doce
3. Is It Time to “Repot” Your Career?
How changing your trajectory can lead to greater innovation, success, and meaning in your work.
Reuters/Toru Hanai
4. Oprah Winfrey: “Align Your Personality With Your Purpose”
The former talk show star offers career and life advice at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Toni Gauthier
5. Researchers: A Few Bad Hair Days Can Change Your Life
New research explores how your feelings about how you look affect how you behave.
Reuters/Daniel Munoz
6. Heidi Roizen: “Today Everything Is Relationship-Driven”
Master networker Heidi Roizen on what has changed — and what hasn’t — about professional networking in the era of social media.
Aaron Wojack
7. Huggy Rao and Robert Sutton: How Do You Scale Excellence?
Two Stanford professors discuss their new book, Scaling Up Excellence, which reveals how the best leaders and teams create a growth mindset.
Claudia Goetzelmann
8. Jennifer Aaker: How to Make Yourself Happy
New research shows one big reason to be nice to others.
Reuters
9. Paul Oyer: What Online Dating Can Teach About Economics
In an excerpt from one of his recent books, an economist explains why it’s important to show you really mean what you say.
Amy Harrity
10. How the Digital Age Rewrites the Rule Book on Consumer Behavior
The authors of a new book on market research explain how a shift in consumer decision-making is fundamentally changing marketing.
Reuters/Toru Hanai
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