Performance
Fifty years ago, in his book Self-Renewal, John Gardner, the late former cabinet secretary and founder of Common Cause, the nonpartisan public-interest lobby for greater political transparency and accountability, first described a career strategy he referred to as “repotting” as a way to stay...
It’s one of the first questions John-Paul Ferguson hears from the first year students in the strategy course he teaches each year at Stanford Graduate School of Business: Is it better to have a career as a specialist, or take the path less traveled and develop a broad skill set from a range of...
The litany of prominent corporate failures in the last decade — Enron, WorldCom, Lehman Brothers, and so on — ushered in an increase in regulatory requirements for corporate governance. The result is that every year, companies spend tens of millions of dollars on incentive compensation, director...
Sergio Autrey spent a decade and a half in Mexico’s satellite business — leading satellite phone company Globalstar de Mexico since 1996, and then SATMEX, Mexico’s leading satellite service provider, from 1998 through 2006. He has witnessed both the highs and the lows of that risky, and often...
More than a decade ago, David Dodson was running an auto parts retailer in Massachusetts. Then a brief trip to Honduras with his wife, Stephanie, changed his career — and his life. While traveling through the country, they were shocked to find hundreds of children suffering from neural tube...
The findings may not sit well with humanitarian groups, as relief workers could be forced to make wrenching distinctions among children who are all undernourished.
Northern Mali, wracked by drought and by the occupation of Islamic jihadists, now faces mass starvation. The United Nations...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — She was a sometime prostitute and sometime cigarette vendor living in the African nation of Sierra Leone who got beaten unconscious in the street by an intoxicated off-duty police officer. He’d demanded and received cigarettes on credit, but became enraged...
Medical technology is one of the foundations of the American health care system. It is home to dramatic technical advances. But it is one of the key contributors to rising health care costs, accounting for, according to one study, roughly half the increase in health spending. Issues such as these...
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair traces his deep interest in Africa back to his father teaching in Sierra Leone in the early 1960s, a time when South Korea was just as poor as Sierra Leone. While South Korea took off economically, Sierra Leone was racked by a long civil war. But now, “the...