Posted in Knowledgebase, Research News on Nov 23rd, 2010
STANFORD UNIVERSITY — Deborah Gruenfeld of the Stanford Graduate School of Business had some sobering news to share with a group of high-level women executives and entrepreneurs. “When it comes to leadership,” Gruenfeld told the group, “there are very few differences in what men and women actually do and how they behave. But there are [...]
Posted in Research News on Sep 7th, 2010
Prescription drug use is on the rise in the United States, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Data collected through the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) showed nearly half of Americans swallowed at least one prescription drug per month in 2007-2008, a 10 percent increase over [...]
Posted in Knowledgebase, News on Aug 4th, 2010
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — In India, desperately poor women pick through trash with their bare hands to support large families on less than a dollar a day. The victims of extreme social discrimination and seclusion, they are also exposed to severe health hazards. In working to aid such women during the tsunami of [...]
Posted in Knowledgebase, News, Research News on Jul 7th, 2010
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS – In 2005, Jessica Jackley and cofounder Matt Flannery had started San Francisco-based Kiva. The organization was born because during a three-month work assignment in East Africa, Jackley had met Ugandan entrepreneurs and wanted to share their inspirational stories with friends and family. Flannery and Jackley launched Kiva, the world’s [...]
Posted in Research News on Jul 2nd, 2010
STANFORD UNIVERSITY — Female students make up 20 percent of engineering undergraduates, but 55 percent of all undergraduates. According to the National Science Foundation, women occupy 11 percent of jobs in engineering fields but comprise 46 percent of the total workforce. And in academia, a recent study found women in the top electrical engineering departments [...]
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Zoe Cruz, once one of the most powerful and highly paid women on Wall Street before her sudden ouster from investment bank Morgan Stanley in 2007, has a whole new agenda these days. Following two years on hiatus from the business world, Cruz has resumed her pursuit of finance by establishing [...]
Posted in Knowledgebase, Research News on May 10th, 2010
The best way to sell technology to women? Do not simply turn products “pink” advises Dr. Martina Schraudner, a visiting scholar at Stanford’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research and professor for Gender and Diversity of Organizations at the Technical University of Berlin. Schraudner can list a variety of pink flops, such as the mobile phone [...]
Posted in Knowledgebase, Research News on Apr 20th, 2010
From the Stanford Social Innovation Review In 2000, while working for a national refugee resettlement organization in New York City, Jane Leu decided that the federally funded system of matching immigrants to careers was a failure. ‘We didn’t have an incentive to focus on [the] quality” of the placements, she remembers of her six years [...]
Posted in Knowledgebase on Apr 19th, 2010
Joanne Weiss’ career demonstrates that social innovations are often created and driven by people who reach across the nonprofit, for-profit, and government sectors. Weiss started her career by co-founding and leading several for-profit companies, and then joined the nonprofit NewSchools Venture Fund, which for the last 12 years has funded nonprofit and for-profit educational reform [...]
Posted in News on Apr 16th, 2010
Twenty years have passed since the Berlin Wall fell and Angela Merkel – then a budding politician who grew up in communist East Germany – first saw the potential and promise of a free world. Now the chancellor of Germany, Merkel says freedom can only flourish with international cooperation aimed at making the world safer, [...]
