Posted in Faculty in the News, News on Nov 16th, 2009
As described on his blog, Stanford Professor Bob Sutton has been leading a workshop on spurring innovation, together with Professor Hayagreeva “Huggy” Rao and others. Customer Focused Innovation is the name of the program, in which executives spend mornings reviewing cases, theories and models and afternoons applying design thinking. Among their projects is a collaboration [...]
Posted in Alumni in the News on Nov 13th, 2009
Troubled by the fact that an estimated 20,000 educated professionals leave Africa every year, Fred Swaniker, MBA ‘04 and Chris Bradford, MBA ‘05 founded the African Leadership Academy in Johannsburg, a secondary school they hope will help change the face of the continent.
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Posted in QOTD on Sep 18th, 2009
“It seems we learn over and over with new communication channels that human behavior is strikingly constant. People who misbehave are the exception rather than the rule, no matter the medium.”
– Becky Bermont, MBA ‘05, vice president of media and partners at the Rhode Island School of Design, in a Aug. 26, 2009, public blog [...]
Posted in Stanford Business magazine on Sep 2nd, 2009
SOCIAL ACTIVISM HAS A LONG AND STORIED HISTORY in the United States. American protest dates back to the 1773 Boston Tea Party, when colonists tossed 45 tons of tea into Boston Harbor to voice their opposition to the British government’s policies. Organizations dedicated to causes continued to grow through the 19th and 20th centuries. In [...]
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 Research News on Aug 8th, 2009
When Andrea Wong, MBA ‘93, joined Lifetime Networks as CEO in 2007, Lifetime had dropped from first to fifth among basic-cable networks. Among its problems, the company was pouring money and talent into 60 original movies a year, most of them about women in peril. “I said, ‘Why are we making movies we don’t believe [...]
Posted in News on Aug 7th, 2009
The marriage of Carlos Brito’s InBev and Anheuser-Busch is “an odd coupling, not unlike, say, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton,” said Business Week. Noting that Brito, MBA ‘89, is known for his Spartan management style while AB is famous for employee perks like free beer and free admission to the company’s theme parks, the [...]
Posted in News on Jul 29th, 2009
GSB Alum Tom Peters (MBA ‘72, PhD ‘77) on his blog offers comments he made to the American Hospital Association. Calling his outline “Principal Management & Leadership (as opposed to Policy) Issues”, he argues that while hospitals face constraints, management and leadership ‘miracles’ can still happen. Peters draws attention to the fact that on a [...]
Posted in QOTD, Stanford Business magazine on Jul 9th, 2009
“I see now that designers are people who can make information emotional and visceral, who can make a bigger impact by thoughtfully marrying form and content. … To make their points they use a toolkit far more expansive than the typical tools of business, like spreadsheets revealing the bottom line or well-reasoned emails. They solve [...]
Posted in QOTD on Jul 1st, 2009
“There is a mistaken belief that people, or for that matter organizations, can be ‘context free’ and objective in their choices and judgments. But we and the places where we work are very much products of our history and past decisions — we are, in a phrase, ‘path dependent’ — a consequence of the particular [...]
