Posted in Feature, Stanford Business magazine on Nov 15th, 2009
Before heading off to high-pressure careers, both male and female MBAs explore how they can save bandwidth for their families
By Margaret Steen
For Stanford’s ambitious MBA students, Myra H. Strober’s Work and Family course can be full of aha moments. They hear, for example, that women who wait to have children may have trouble conceiving, and [...]
Posted in News on Oct 10th, 2009
Nobel Laureate and GSB professor emeritus William Sharpe told an audience at Stanford that they shouldn’t place too much weight on what financial experts predict.
In a darkly funny discussion on the current financial crisis, Sharpe reminded the audience that “Financial people did what financial people do. They took a lot of risks so if things [...]
Posted in Alumni in the News, News on Sep 13th, 2009
Klane Sees Challenges Ahead for Korean Banks
After enduring its first quarterly loss since 2003, Korea Exchange Bank returned to profit in the second quarter of 2009 under the guidance of Larry Klane, MBA ‘87, who became president and CEO of South Korea’s sixth largest lender in April. Although he expects a solid third quarter for [...]
Posted in Research News on Sep 8th, 2009
Rock groups can lose as much as 40% of their potential sales because consumers don’t know enough about them, says the Stanford Business School’s Alan Sorensen. There are lots of crowded markets out there where lack of information skews sales.
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — You won’t see anything written about bands like the Foo [...]
Posted in Research News, Stanford Business magazine on Aug 30th, 2009
Everyone takes a free green grocery bag, but how do you lure stressed-out consumers and businesses to walk the green walk more consistently? Marketing students look for levers of change
ONE DAY LAST YEAR, marketing Professor Baba Shiv stood outside a Trader Joe’s near Stanford for more than an hour approaching shoppers who were leaving the store with [...]
Posted in Knowledgebase on Aug 29th, 2009
What can we expect as the world’s economy emerges from its most serious downturn in almost a century? Economist A. Michael Spence forsees a “new normal,” with slower growth, a less risky and more stable core financial system, and challenges in areas such as energy, climate, and demographic imbalance.
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Posted in Research News on Aug 14th, 2009
A growing number of analysts are blaming the current economic crisis on excessive executive pay. In an article in the Summer 2009 Perspectives on Work magazine titled “The Corporate Pay Gap: Do We Need A Maximum Wage“, the author contends that the greater the potential reward, the greater the executive temptation to cut corners — [...]
Posted in Knowledgebase, News, Research News on Jul 1st, 2009
Economist Peter Henry spent 10 intense months in the maelstrom of national politics, leading then candidate Barack 0bama’s group on Economics, Globalization and Trade Policy during the 2008 campaign. He collected position papers and tracked down surrogates who could knowledgeably speak for the Obama Campaign on economic issues. He even found himself in front of the microphones.
Posted in Research News on Apr 9th, 2009
Barbados and Jamaica are living proof that government protectionist policies hurt the economy in the long run, say Stanford researchers. Once sporting nearly identical economies, today Barbados outstrips Jamaica’s GDP by more than $5,000 per capita.
Posted in Research News, Stanford Business magazine on Mar 19th, 2009
Enforcing existing rules requiring space programs to clean up their own space junk could stem the growing threat to millions of dollars worth of orbiting satellites say Stanford researchers. The rules are already on the books, they are merely being ignored says Prof. Lawrence Wein.
