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Across the industrialized world and across employers, there are huge variations in what Stanford economics professor Nick Bloom calls being-nice-to-people practices. These are policies that try to address the fact that men and women in today’s workforce are often struggling to balance their work...
Behind the car bombs, drone attacks, and uprisings around the world lies a very old and common problem: how to curb the fear people experience when another social group threatens their future. In recent research, economist Saumitra Jha has found examples where political reforms that leverage...
Combining business disciplines picked up at Stanford and his finance career with his own deep knowledge of realities in Ghana, Kwabena Amporful, MBA ’08, has designed a teacher training initiative for which he received an $80,000 Social Innovation Fellowship from the Center for Social Innovation...
STANFORD—A new program on scaling fast-growth companies will gather 61 entrepreneurs from around the world at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Aug. 26-31. The course is the first educational program to be offered by the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED). The...
Six of the ten biggest corporate bankruptcies in history have occurred since late 2008 — and all ten of the top ten, if you include companies that escaped bankruptcy by being bailed out. The names are etched in our memories: Lehman Brothers, General Motors, Chrysler, A.I.G., Fannie Mae, and...
Chintay Shih, chair of Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry, has been a key player in creating Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, which now boasts more than $50 billion in annual revenue. As the former president of the Industrial Technology Research Institute, a research organization with...