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Stanford GSB students honor Dirk Jenter, Charles Lee, and Jeremy Bulow for their memorable teaching.
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06.01.12
Writing in the New York Times, researchers at Stanford’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance urge Congress to reduce the financing costs of renewable energy by granting tax breaks now available to non-renewables.
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05.31.12
President Abdullah Gül of Turkey discussed democracy, reform, and innovation at the Stanford GSB, followed by a Q&A with Condoleezza Rice.
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05.30.12
At Stanford, book author and columnist Tom Friedman discusses how America lost its way in the world it invented and how it can come back.
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Paralegals can be critical in countries that are short on courts and lawyers. A nonprofit called Namati is helping to bring them there.
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Abbott’s John Capek discusses health care device regulation, transparency, and the critical relationship between physicians and their patients.

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Kleiner Perkins’ Chi-Hua Chien discusses Facebook, the future of mobile, and the one-and-only reason to start a new company. 
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YouTube tutor Salman Khan tells how his commitment to help a cousin with a difficult math lesson led not just to a successful, free, online tutoring service but to an organization whose educational mission attracts highly-productive workers without exorbitant pay packages. 
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Media Entrepreneurs Discuss Speed, Subscription Models, and the Wall Between Advertising and Editorial
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Stick to your core beliefs when confronted with unanticipated moments of crisis, and build a team that can help you effectively confront difficult challenges, advised former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe. 
Steven A. Denning, MBA '78, who has been a member of the board since 2004, served as co-chair of The Stanford Challenge, the recently concluded campaign that raised $6.2 billion.
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A research paper coauthored by finance faculty member Anat Admati has been recognized by the Financial Times and International Centre for Financial Regulation  (ICFR) in their jointly-sponsored third annual essay contest on financial regulation. 
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After leaving an internet company he cofounded here, Eric Baker took the business concept to other countries.
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Europe’s banks also need to shore up their capital, not just borrow liquidity, say three experts on international finance.
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In a new book, economics Professor Robert Flanagan explains why symphony orchestras need multiple strategies to keep their finances from ballooning out of control. 
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Tokyo Electric’s manager of nuclear power cites the value of cross-border sharing of crisis management knowledge. 

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Getting all the senior leaders on board in advance is the most effective way to be successful in introducing change to an organization, according to research co-authored by Business School Professor Charles O'Reilly.
In the 1990s IBM appeared headed for extinction. Today it is again a leading technology competitor. In an award-winning paper, Charles O'Reilly of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and his coauthors tracked how, by being ambidextrous, Big Blue avoided going the way of the dodo bird.
Some 300 actors and writers were blacklisted during the 1950s, but researchers who analyzed how the social networks of that era worked say hundreds more saw their careers marred because they merely associated with those on the list.
Voters' decisions to support incumbents are influenced by irrelevant events such as football scores that have nothing to do with the candidates' competence or effectiveness, according to new research by Stanford Graduate School of Business scholars. It's something politicians have already figured out.
In a new book Professor Darrell Duffie describes the financial network of incentives and financial contracts that lead to run-on-the-bank calamities during the financial crisis of 2007-2009. The Stanford Graduate School of Business finance professor argues that placing the global financial system on a sounder footing depends on an understanding of how the largest and most connected banks — the...
Consumer and environmental groups, angry over the spreading oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, are calling for a boycott of BP, the oil giant that owns the well gushing oil onto beaches and marshes. According to research by Phillip Leslie and Larry Chavis, boycotts do in fact work and they're something businesses should be concerned about.

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