Leadership

STANFORD—A new program on scaling fast-growth companies will gather 61 entrepreneurs from around the world at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Aug. 26-31. The course is the first educational program to be offered by the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED). The...
Military Procession
It’s hard to find fault with the concept of equality. America’s founding fathers considered it such a universally desirable ideal that they built their fledgling democracy upon it. To this day, no one in his right mind would ever claim to prefer a stratified social structure to an egalitarian one...
China Shale Gas Line
In a relatively short time, U.S. shale gas production has lowered the price of natural gas in the United States to a quarter of the price in Europe and prompted some utilities to scrap plans to build coal-fired electricity plants. Meanwhile China is gearing up to apply the technology...
Leadership and Growth by David W. Brady and Michael Spence World Bank, 2010 Find it @ Business Library Buy this book (Amazon.com) This book has been prepared for the Commission on Growth and Development to evaluate the state of knowledge on the relationship between leadership and economic...
Jeremy Lin Driving to the Basket
Three years ago, Zakary Tormala had a casual conversation with a friend about the excessive hype around rookie hires in the academic job market. They had found it remarkable that top entry-level faculty — candidates with a couple of publications under their belt before finishing grad school —...

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