'Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't'. That was GSB Professor Robert Sutton's aim in writing his bestselling book The No Asshole Rule (it is also the book's subtitle). Sutton will be speaking on the topic at Noon, Thursday May 15 in the first floor conference room of Mariposa House on campus. The talk is free and open to all Faculty and Staff of Stanford University, LPCH and Stanford Hospital. Space is limited. To RSVP, call the Faculty Staff Help Center at 3-4577 or email helpcenter@lists.stanford.edu
Library friend Michelle Gutman continues to keep us up to date with the latest corporate governance activities on campus. This time it is the 'Governance Lunch for Students' at the Stanford Law School, April 8; the lunch speaker will be Andrew Vollmer, Deputy General Counsel of the SEC. Followed by a reception and panel discussion on Stoneridge Security v Scientific-Atlanta, considered by many "the most important securities case in a generation". Both events are sponsored by the Rock Center for Corporate Governance.
Michelle Gutman reminds us that the Stanford Law Review, together with the Rock Center for Corporate Governance, is convening its 2008 annual symposium to focus on issues of corporate governance. It will feature a keynote address by Richard Breeden, founder of the activist hedge fund Breeden Partners and former Chairman of the SEC. Interested parties may register.
New Directions for Corporate Governance
Dates: February 8-9, 2008
Location: Stanford Law School, Room 290
"Emerging IT Trends Impacting Higher Education … and Tools to Deal with Them"
Presenter: Dr. Jan-Martin Lowendahl*, Gartner analyst
Date: Thursday, January 10, 2008, 9:30am – 11:00am
Where: Room L103, Littlefield Building, GSB
Who: Open to all Stanford faculty, staff, and students (Free; limited to 30 participants)
Summary: The higher education environment is culturally complex, with a wide variety of stakeholders and rapidly changing technologies. How do you know what matters, when so much is relevant and important? What should be a priority? We will take a look at some of the IT trends impacting higher education and discuss some simple tools that can be used to bring order to this increasingly complex situation.
*Based in Sweden, Dr. Jan-Martin is a Gartner Research Director focused on higher education technology strategies including identity and access management, governance, learning technologies, and academic and administrative systems. Prior to coming to Gartner two years ago, he was the CIO at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden where his main focus was infrastructure strategies and governance. He holds a PhD. in chemistry from Goteborg University.
Registration and Question:
Registration is free and is limited to 30 participants. To register, contact Ann Groves, Higher Education Executive, Northwestern Region, Gartner, Inc.; 650-366-4942 (office); 510-821-0938 (cell)
Do you know how to train the most important but least understood muscles in our body? Major media like Time, CBS News, and the Wall Street Journal have recently started to cover what many neuroscientists have argued for years: that our brains are composed of a number of areas and functions, "mental muscles", that we can train with targeted practice.
Come hear the co-founders of SharpBrains explain the scientific findings that underlie the emerging field of 'brain fitness'. Learn about the rapidly evolving landscape and trends of the high growth industry, and see live demos on what brain training is all about. SharpBrains, a partnership between neuroscientist Elkhonon Goldberg and educator and GSB alum Alvaro Fernandez (Stanford MBA, MA in Education '01), offers the first online brain fitness center. Give your brain a workout on Thursday, May 17, Noon - 1 PM, GSB classroom S-150. For a preview on some of the ideas, read a conversation with Dr Goldberg.
We've blogged before about legendary Stanford Psych Professor Philip Zimbardo, who recently retired, loaded with honors and accolades. Guy Kawasaki on his blog presents '10 Questions With Dr Philip Zimbardo', centering around the perennial issues of good and evil. Dr Zimbardo recently wrote The Lucifer Effect, in which he explores why 'good' people do bad things. Kawasaki's questions target in particular lessons learned from the (in)famous Stanford Prison Experiment, conducted by Zimbardo in 1971, and their application to the recent debacle at Abu Ghraib -- reminding us of the eternal relevance of this topic. But for those who like a ray of light at the end of the tunnel: Dr Zimbardo is now turning his attention to moral heroes, and implanting the 'heroic imagination' in today's youth.
Stanford Beyond Bars is presenting The Nicholas Yarris Story, Tuesday, April 10th, 7:00 to 9:30 PM in Cubberely Auditorium, Stanford campus. Mr Yarris spent 23 years on Death Row for a crime he didn’t commit -- fourteen of those years in solitary confinement. He is now a vocal opponent of the death penalty and speaks frequently of his prison nightmare, before DNA testing exonerated him. Admission is free.
Real estate legend Sam Zell, the self-styled 'Grave Dancer', will be on campus tomorrow, Thursday, April 5. Fresh from his takeover of the Tribune Company, he will speak on bidding wars and challenges of corporate control at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford Law School, at 5:30 PM. For further details and registration, as well as some introductory articles, see our special Webpage for this event.
This is the name of an article by Stanford Professor Philip Zimbardo and Zeno Franco, PhD. Spinning off of the famous phrase of Hannah Arendt, the authors show how ordinary people surprise with heroic achievements. Guy Kawasaki on his blog notes the piece approvingly, and lists the 5 actions the authors insist must nurture a 'heroic imagination'.
Readers of our blog may recall our earlier piece (March 4) on the final lecture by Dr Zimbardo, a Stanford institution. This author attended that historic event. The auditorium was SRO, while "Dr Z" held forth with wit and humor -- or as much as was possible when discussing Abu Ghraib and a book titled The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. Interested? Read more about Prof Zimbardo.
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Legendary Stanford Psychology Professor Philip Zimbardo will deliver his final lecture on campus on March 7. A fixture on campus for decades, Zimbardo is most famous (infamous?) for his notorious "Stanford Prison Experiment" back in 1971, that scandalized many when it pushed beyond the limits of human decency and exposed some ugly truths about humanity. Professor Zimbardo will discuss his new book on the psychology of evil, the appropriately named Lucifer Effect.
Stanford Biology student Katharine Jefferts Schori often spent nights sitting in Memorial Church, pondering her future career, her vocation, and her life. Thirty years later, she is The Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of the 2.4 million member Episcopal Church. In "Grace Under Pressure" Stanford Magazine covers her career as student, small plane pilot, oceanographer, and pastor, and the challenges she faces as the first female Presiding Bishop in Church history. Says friend Reverend Canon Britt Olson, "She has the scientist's gift for observation and collecting data, along with the humanistic perspective of relationships, and the combination is really tremendous."
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