Operations
Summer 2009
In today's workplace, where employees rarely expect to remain with one organization for their entire careers, firms are searching for new ways to increase the commitment of their employees. The benefits to organizations of such a commitment, which have been well documented, include...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Computer and one of Silicon's Valley's most successful college dropouts, wowed an overflow crowd at Stanford's Bishop Auditorium Thursday in the academic year's final View From the Top lecture.
Dressed in his usual long-...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Companies can make money while operating in socially responsible and environmentally friendly ways. It just takes what supply chain expert Hau Lee calls the Triple-A approach—having agility, adaptability, and alignment.
Lee, the Thoma Professor of Operations,...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS -- Don’t look for global package delivery service FedEx Express to go the way of the Pony Express, which abruptly met its demise once the telegraph made it possible to relay information more quickly than a fleet of riders on horseback.
FedEx Express is keeping...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Isadore Sharp knows that a key reason his hotel chain is one of the best places in the world to work is because he decided three decades ago to fire several top people.
In his keynote speech February 26 at the annual Stanford Graduate School of Business...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —While today's economy is rough, rags-to-riches entrepreneur John Paul DeJoria says the situation pales compared to the 1980s when he launched his hair care products company with $700, selling door to door in Los Angeles out of the trunk of his car.
Back then,...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Alumni entrepreneurs stepped away from the heady world of running things to discuss that world and compare notes on hiring, firing, and promoting employees during an event at the Graduate School of Business May 9.
It was the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies'...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Since a devastating earthquake occurred off the northeastern coast of Japan on March 11, the leadership abilities of many Japanese business executives are being tested. Among them are graduates of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. About 650 GSB alums...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS -- Andy Katz-Mayfield, MBA class 2011, has a resume that highlights his time with national consulting and equity investing firms. Danielle Weiss, a physician, recently completed a fellowship in endocrinology at Stanford Hospital and Clinics.
In the normal flow...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —When Paul Auerbach arrived at the University Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the January 2010 earthquake, he faced a sea of death and misery the likes of which he'd never seen. A thousand people were critically injured or ill, buildings were in ruin...