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The following is a transcript of the commencement address given by Garth Saloner.
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Stanford Graduate School of Business Diploma Ceremony
Wall Street Journal -
06.15.12
Why Chinese investors are starting to do clean-energy deals in the U.S.
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A conversation with Stefan Reichelstein on the economics of solar power.
As an extraordinary academic year comes to an end, we look forward to the exciting opportunities ahead.
William Miller brings Silicon Valley ideas to Asia — and back.
More than three-dozen Stanford-connected venture capitalists are helping lead the way in China's fast-moving investment world — blurring the distinctions between China and the West in the process.

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A talk with a Stanford dermatologist and entrepreneur who cofounded an internet alternative to the doctors’ office.
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How even small psychological interventions can help reduce conflict.
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In an online forum, Stefanos Zenios responds to reader questions on innovation in the field.
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A social scientist says the key may be in the messaging. 
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How lessons from behavioral science could help increase turnout.
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In March, Robert L. Joss became the 42nd recipient of the Ernest C. Arbuckle Award conferred by the Stanford Business School Alumni Association. The distinction recognizes major changes during his 10 years as dean, including increased collaboration with other schools at Stanford, construction of a new business school complex, and a retooled MBA curriculum.
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Writing in the Wall Street Journal, David Brady and Douglas Rivers say independent voters "hold the key" in the 2012 presidential election. Brady is the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Political Science and Leadership Values in the Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Edward P. Lazear puts today's economic recovery in historical context.
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GSB Marketing Professor Jennifer Aaker says social media can help  for-profits, nonprofits,  and government organizations  address a deficit of trust in our current culture.
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Journalist-filmmaker Eric Schlosser tells students interested in food issues that critics of today’s industrial food system shouldn’t forget lower-income people

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Text of Op-Ed Published in Financial Times
Text of Op-Ed Published in Financial Times
Observers of Silicon Valley have always assumed that the most successful companies get their competitive edge by paying their star employees more than the competition to fuel innovation. Now research, co-authored by Professor Kathryn Shaw, and using the academic field of insider econometrics, has been able to prove that this assumption is indeed true.
People are more likely to stay motivated and achieve a goal if it's sketched out in vague terms than if it's set in stone with a specific target, according to a new paper by Professor Baba Shiv.
Permissive bankruptcy laws, not bad business downturns, seem to be the greatest cause of corporate bond defaults, according to Professor Ilya Strebulaev, co-author of a study that researched 150 years of figures.
A new study argues that household stock ownership decreases as the tax benefits associated with owning stocks inside a pension plan increase. The trend applies around the globe, says Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Ilya Strebulaev.
Anat R. Admati, Peter M. DeMarzo, Martin F. Hellwig, and Paul Pfleiderer, August 2010, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 86, Stanford Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 2065. Downloadable PDF of Article
Text of Letter Published in Financial Times
Virtue seems to pay according to Professor Charles M.C. Lee whose research shows that publicly-held firms in countries perceived as less corrupt trade at bigger market premiums than those in places deemed more corrupt.

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