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A new joint Stanford Electrical Engineering MS/MBA degree program will be available to graduate students in the 2015-2016 academic year. Students may apply for admission starting this fall.
“The joint focus recognizes that the students we educate need and want an integrated understanding of...
When your doctor sends you to the lab for tests, the two of you hope to get back clues to your most important health issues. In the near future, there may be computers analyzing those test results in a new way — along with prescriptions, doctors’ visit notes, and other electronic medical records...
John Browne spent about 40 years at BP, 12 of them as its CEO, before leaving the company in 2007. He is now the managing director of Riverstone Holdings and chairman of Cuadrilla Resources, a gas and oil exploration company that has played a leading role in the drilling and/or hydraulic...
Stanford Graduate School of Business is seeking MBA candidates, who are citizens of an African country and interested in contributing to the region’s human and economic development, to apply for the Stanford Africa MBA Fellowship. Fellows must commit to return to Africa within two years, and for...
Stanford Graduate School of Business is seeking MBA candidates, who are citizens of India and interested in contributing to the country’s human and socioeconomic progress, to apply for the Stanford Reliance Dhirubhai MBA Fellowship. Fellows must commit to return to India within two years, and...
What is the relationship between technology and democracy? In March, former U.S. Secretary of State and Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Condoleezza Rice sat down at the school with Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen to discuss their book, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future...
When entrepreneur Gregg Renfrew set out to take on the traditional cosmetics industry by founding a company specializing in nontoxic beauty-care products, the biggest challenges didn’t come from her competitors in the $80 billion global industry. Surprisingly, they emanated from within her...
Stanford Graduate School of Business will build additional residential units to create an expanded living and learning environment adjacent to its state-of-the-art Knight Management Center. The four-story structure will allow the school to offer nearly all first-year MBA students a place to live...
When she was in graduate school in the early 1990s, Sarah Soule joked with fellow students that it took longer to publish a research paper than to gestate a human baby. From the time a research paper was submitted to a peer-reviewed journal until it was published, a year or more passed. The...