Leadership

A growing body of psychological research, a good deal of it from Berger himself, shows that certain principles reliably drive people to discuss and share things. Vietnamese Americans make up an astounding 80% of California’s manicurists and 43% of manicurists nationwide. For anyone wondering...
Scott Stanford
For more than a decade, Scott Stanford has experienced the tech world from all sides: as an advisor, as an entrepreneur, and most recently as an investor and global head of Goldman Sachs' internet and new media investment banking business. While at Goldman Sachs, the Indiana native left his...
Elizabeth Blankespoor, Stanford GSB's assistant professor of accounting
Research shows that fair-value calculations provide a far more accurate indicator of a bank's risk of failure than calculations based largely on historical cost. It has been four years since Wall Street and the banking industry imploded under the weight of mortgage-backed securities, but the...
Economist Edward Lazear
Unless the United States is willing to curb the growth in government-funded health care, it is looking forward to slow job growth and a 50% increase in federal taxes on every American, not just the rich, according to economist Edward Lazear. Speaking to Stanford University employees a few hours...
Chrstina Romer and Keith Hennessey Debating at the Commonwealth Club
"I would never be one to advocate that Congress not increase the debt limit…trying to create a cash crunch crisis was absolutely thewrong thing." Keith HennesseyLecturerStanford GSB It wasn't exactly a love fest. But what had been billed as a shootout between two heavyweight economists at...
Anat Admati, professor, Stanford GSB
"Many people are angry but they don’t know what to do. What we're hoping is to teach them what to ask for — to tell them what can be done." Anat Admati, professor of finance and economics, Stanford GSB One day in the spring of 2010, Anat Admati, a finance and economics professor at the...
Students with Stanford GSB alumni at the Executive Challenge
Wearing black suits and chanting "we will rock you," as if to overwhelm opponents, nearly 400 first year MBA students start their day on a mission. They soon meet their match, however — nearly 200 high-ranking executives come from near and far to test the younger men's and women's leadership...

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