Business and Law
Lecture to focus on business, environment
Leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla will deliver the annual Conradin von Gugelberg Memorial Lecture on the Environment at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17, in Bishop Auditorium at the Graduate School of Business.
Q & A: Law Professor Jane Schacter discusses California’s ban on gay marriage
In an interview with Stanford Report, Jane Schacter, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor in Law, discussed the immediate fallout from the passage of Proposition 8 and the legal outlook for gay marriage.
Hoover Institution announces National Fellows for 2008-09
The Hoover Institution has named its postdoctoral W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellows for the 2008-09 academic year.
Hoover Institution gets papers of late Chief Justice Rehnquist
The papers of William H. Rehnquist, who served as the country's chief justice from 1986 until his death in 2005, have been donated to the Hoover Institution Archives.
Documents detail Iranian training of Iraqi militias
An Army terrorism expert now at Stanford's Hoover Institution has released 85 pages of once-secret documents that provide an insider's account of how Iranian military and Lebanese Hezbollah forces train Iraqi Shiite militants to kill U.S. soldiers.
Roundtable asks: What does it take to be a leader?
Tom Brokaw of NBC's Meet the Press moderated the third annual Roundtable at Stanford, "Wanted: Courage, Compassion and Character-Leadership for the 21st Century," on Saturday in Maples Pavilion.
Community mourns deaths of three students in highway accident
Three students from the Graduate School of Business lost their lives when the car in which they were riding Friday evening apparently careened down a cliff off Highway 1 near Big Sur, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office confirmed today.
National security fellows announced
A State Department diplomat and officers from the Air Force, Army and Marines compose the 2008-09 crop of National Security Affairs Fellows at the Hoover Institution.
Joss to step down as dean of Graduate School of Business
Robert L. Joss, dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, announced Sept. 25 that he will step down at the end of the current academic year. Joss will have served 10 years as dean.
Law school votes to drop letter grades; revamped system begins this quarter
First- and second-year Law School students will be working for honors instead of A's this year. In a move intended to ease student competition, make grading more fair and eliminate "class shopping," Stanford Law School faculty voted to replace letter grades with a system that doles out honors, passes, restricted credit or no credit.
Business School officially breaks ground for new 360,000-square-foot campus
The Graduate School of Business recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new campus, named in honor of Nike Inc. founder and chairman Philip H. Knight.
Crunch time: Serra Complex demolished to make way for new Graduate School of Business
Demolition of the buildings at 651 and 655 Serra St. picked up this week with the help of hydraulic excavators, which are expected to remain on site for about a month. The Serra complex, home to Human Resources and other business offices for years, is coming down to make way for a new Business School campus.
Alumnus Jude Shao freed on probation from Chinese prison
Jude Shao, the Graduate School of Business alumnus who was imprisoned in China for alleged tax evasion and fraud, was paroled in early July after serving 10 years of a 16-year sentence. Shao, a naturalized U.S. citizen who obtained his MBA in 1993, will spend his probationary time in Shanghai.
Class project takes wing with proposal for no-frills Colombian airline
As part of a class project, a team of four Business School students recently drew up plans for a no-frills airline in Colombia. And just to make it really interesting, they intend to promote the new airline through a reality television show developed by Ugly Betty creator Fernando Gaitán.
Studies show people underestimate the willingness of others to help them out
For many of us, the thought of asking someone for help or a favor--be it a colleague, friend or stranger--is fraught with discomfort. We figure we're imposing or tend to assume the person will say no, which could leave us embarrassed or humiliated.
