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STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Nearly everyone thinks that generating electricity via solar power is good for the environment, but there’s much less agreement on whether it makes sense from an economic point of view. At what point will solar power be competitive with electricity generated...
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STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — She was a sometime prostitute and sometime cigarette vendor living in the African nation of Sierra Leone who got beaten unconscious in the street by an intoxicated off-duty police officer. He’d demanded and received cigarettes on credit, but became enraged...
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Over the years, as governments and investors have spent big money on renewable power, they have slashed the cost of many renewable technologies. But they have failed to fundamentally change the global energy mix. Now, with technologies such as wind and solar power having matured, it's time for the...
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The current entrepreneurial enthusiasm for innovation in health care is likely to continue regardless of the political fate of the Affordable Care Act, one of the nation's top doctors told a Stanford audience recently. Jack Cochran, the executive director of the Permanente Federation, the umbrella...
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice has played a major role in helping to shape American foreign policy during much of the past decade. A Russia scholar and former provost at Stanford from 2001 to 2005, she served as President George W. Bush’s Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs — the first...
Bill Frist
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — As a medical resident three decades ago, Bill Frist came to the Stanford Medical Center to work with famed heart-transplant surgeon Norman Shumway because Frist’s superiors at Massachusetts General felt transplanting hearts was too expensive. Today,...
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STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair traces his deep interest in Africa back to his father teaching in Sierra Leone in the early 1960s, a time when South Korea was just as poor as Sierra Leone. While South Korea took off economically, Sierra Leone was...

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