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May 03, 2019
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Five Common Communication Mistakes (And How to Fix Them)
Learn how to be more effective at your next meeting or presentation.
April 30, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence for the Perplexed Executive
AI can transform almost every industry. The biggest uncertainty may be the humans behind it.
April 26, 2019
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On Social Media, Sell Your Brand, Not Your Stuff
A new marketing study of Facebook users shows that hard-sell tactics stifle engagement, and engagement is gold.
April 24, 2019
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Roger McNamee: “Facebook Is Terrible for America”
Facebook’s loudest critic says social media profits by manipulating consumers.
April 24, 2019
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Why Self-Regulation Can Pay Off
Companies that try to fix problems on their own may sidestep more onerous regulations in the future.
April 12, 2019
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Getting Banks to Latch onto Blockchain
A Ukrainian native challenges the financial industry to lose its fear of decentralized transactions.
April 04, 2019
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How to Invest in Your Social Capital
Influencing others’ network ties shapes your status.
April 03, 2019
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Why Was the Last Recovery Slower Than Usual? Actually, It Wasn’t
A new study of financial crises going back to 1870 shows that they make for unusually nasty recessions.
March 29, 2019
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Better If It’s Man-Made?
Gender bias can negatively affect what we think about products made by women, especially in male-oriented markets.
March 22, 2019
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How to Design a Better Soda Tax
An analysis of Philadelphia’s sweet-drink “sin tax” finds a flaw in the system: Many people simply drive beyond city limits to buy their pop.
March 19, 2019
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Finding a Low-Cost Treatment for Clubfoot
Chesca Colloredo-Mansfeld’s journey from online retail to academia to a healthcare nonprofit has paid off in ways that can’t be measured.
March 15, 2019
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Businesses Behaving Badly: The State of Corporate Scandal in 2019
Expert panelists put corporate wrongdoing in its broader context.
March 12, 2019
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Sequoia’s Michael Moritz: Look out for “the Unexpected”
The venture capitalist explains why you don’t need to be a tech expert to see potential.
March 08, 2019
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Why the Binding Arbitration Game Is Rigged against Customers
A new study documents how companies shop for sympathetic arbitrators, and how the arbitrators compete for their business.
March 07, 2019
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Our Misplaced Fear of Job-Stealing Robots
At a Future of Work forum, experts say demographic shifts, not artificial intelligence, create the biggest challenges for today’s workplace.
March 06, 2019
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Can a Giant Company Behave Like a Startup?
Stanford GSB faculty reveal the art of engineering entrepreneurialism within existing organizations.
March 01, 2019
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Bringing Bankless Banking to East Africa
Tanzania’s Benjamin Fernandes took his Stanford MBA and went home.
March 01, 2019
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Networking Minds for Open Innovation
The spark needed to ignite your next idea may be half a world away.
February 27, 2019
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Why Republican Politicians Pay More Than Democrats for TV Ads
New research shows political advertising’s hidden costs.
February 22, 2019
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Startup Success Secrets
Many startups fail in the early stages. The reason? Often it’s people problems.
February 14, 2019
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Phil Knight on the Controversial Kaepernick Ad and Nike’s Never-Give-Up Attitude
“It doesn’t matter how many people hate your brand as long as enough people love it.”
February 08, 2019
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Don’t Let Artificial Intelligence Pick Your Employees
A Stanford GSB scholar shares why algorithms aren’t sophisticated enough to make these strategic decisions ... yet.
February 04, 2019
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Fran Weld, MBA ’11: If Your Dream Job Doesn’t Exist, Create It
The senior vice president of strategy and development for the SF Giants carved her own niche in the competitive world of pro sports management.
January 30, 2019
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What Brexit Means to UK Business: Like Jumping out of a Plane without a Parachute
A Stanford economist finds that Brexit is a top source of uncertainty for almost half of UK companies.