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STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—For millions of people across Africa, motorcycles can be a key to effective health care. Vaccines, HIV counseling and treatment, and other public health expertise are out of reach—with access obstructed by shortages, poverty, geography, and lack of...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Huge salary imbalances between CEOs and the people who work for them can send bad vibes throughout an organization, weakening loyalty and eroding the talent pool, says Charles O'Reilly, director of the Business School's Center for Leadership Development and...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Young companies that adopt structured systems to run their operations in their early years grow three times faster than competitors and have a lower rate of CEO turnover, according to an award-winning research paper.
"Some entrepreneurs mistakenly view...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—The following release describes research by Professor Robert J. Flanagan of the Stanford Graduate School of Business that will be presented at the International Labor Standards Conference at the Stanford Law School on May 20. The broadest survey of its kind,...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—We live in an extraordinary time. The Internet and related technologies have opened new forms of communication, reduced the costs of many kinds of market interactions, and brought firms and consumers around the globe into closer proximity than ever before. At...
The study of diversity in the workplace has taken on new importance as changing economics prompt many companies to downsize and restructure themselves into flatter, more decentralized entities. The result is that today's corporations are built around groups that must find answers to novel and...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—In a business environment where heads of companies are increasingly held accountable for performance and boards are willing to use their muscle to push them out, CEOs are being handed pink slips more frequently than ever before. So what does that mean for the...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—When a developing country opens its stock market to foreign capital, the resulting economic effect usually helps more than just big business. A recent study of 18 nations found that typical manufacturing workers saw their real wages go up seven times faster...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—The blood supply has been a chief pathway for the spread of AIDS. To protect it, the American Red Cross long ago started testing the blood of all volunteer donors. But in poor regions of the world, such vigilant screening is out of the question. In parts of...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Product creators whose offerings or expertise are more clearly associated with one or two product categories have better sales than those whose goods or professional identity span multiple categories, according to a recently-published study. The more focused...