Posted in Knowledgebase, News, speakers on Nov 29th, 2011
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Chinese internet users have devised an array of creative ways to navigate around government censorship of China’s cyberspace, a leading Hong Kong-based CNN journalist told a Stanford audience. In a November 21 talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Kristie Lu Stout, BA ’96, MA ’97, an anchor [...]
Posted in Knowledgebase, Research News on Nov 23rd, 2011
As markets around the world slump, sputter and slump again, China maintains the fastest-growing economy. But despite the country’s boom, it has fallen behind in making sure its children will be healthy, strong and smart enough to cash in on it. About 30% of children living in China’s rural areas are anemic – sick with [...]
Posted in Research News on Oct 5th, 2011
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Who is more digitally switched on – high school students in Silicon Valley or Beijing? A new study from Stanford University provides some clues. High schoolers in Palo Alto, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley, spend significantly more time using digital media every day than their peers at [...]
Posted in Knowledgebase, News on Oct 4th, 2011
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS – In a wide-ranging talk, Jack Ma, chairman of China’s Alibaba Group, publicly declared his interest in acquiring troubled U.S. internet giant Yahoo, while also reflecting on his 12-year journey building an internet powerhouse that has transformed commerce for small businesses and consumers in China. The Chinese e-commerce billionaire addressed [...]
Posted in Research News on Dec 9th, 2010
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — What happens when a company is robbed by its dominant shareholder? The theft not only hurts minority shareholders, but profoundly damages the firm’s longer-term health and viability, according to Charles M.C. Lee, an accounting professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In a recent research paper, Lee and [...]
Posted in Knowledgebase on Oct 28th, 2010
STANFORD – President Obama heads to Asia in early November to reinforce America’s relationships with Muslim leaders, global economic giants, and political allies. He’s scheduled to spend time in India and Indonesia before heading to the G20 summit in South Korea, followed by an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Japan. Donald Emmerson, director of the [...]
Posted in Knowledgebase, Research News on May 19th, 2010
What will it take for the United States and China to move toward environmentally friendly technology such as electric cars and clean coal? Professor Robert A. Burgelman and Andrew S. Grove, a lecturer in management and former chairman of Intel, challenged students in their MBA seminar at the Stanford Graduate School of Business to examine [...]
Posted in Alumni in the News on Mar 4th, 2010
Google has threatened to move out of China in response to government censorship. But the cofounder and CEO of Youku, a Chinese online video site, defended his company’s decision to censor itself by removing sexual and politically sensitive content uploaded by its members. “Any country has its own rules and regulations for its development,” Victor [...]
Posted in Faculty in the News on Jan 21st, 2010
“If Google leaves China, I think the impact of that is China gets a black eye. People will remember what happened to Google.” – Haim Mendelson, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Professor of Electronic Business and Commerce,and Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business, told the San Francisco Chronicle the rift between Google and [...]
