Finance
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—When it comes to corporate defaults, the current recession is, as of now, child's play in comparison not only to the Great Depression, but another little-recalled period: the railroad crisis of 1873?1875.
New research from Stanford shows that over the past...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Maria Ogneva, who last January began teaching for the first time in the Stanford Sloan Program, won accolades from her students who on May 20 honored her with their annual Sloan Teaching Excellence Award.
An assistant professor of accounting, Ogneva taught...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Having survived the banking industry meltdown hasn’t soured Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase & Co. CEO, on taking risks. In fact Dimon, who has been lauded for steering the company away from toxic securities that brought down competitors like Lehman Brothers,...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Having substantial cash on hand enabled Danaher Corp to fund the acquisition of 18 companies in 2009, many of them with little competition, Daniel Comas, MBA '91, the firm's executive VP and chief financial officer, told a student audience.
The 45-year-old...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Streamlining balky government permit processes or convoluted global supply chains are just some of the challenges in the "Valley of Death" faced by fledgling clean energy firms.
Ideas of how to overcome these and similar barriers were tossed around in a forum...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Leadership. Innovation. Simple solutions. Those are principles instilled in students at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. They are also principles Penny Pritzker, JD/MBA '84, calls upon to help improve the quality of education for America's...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — When asked what makes a great entrepreneur, venture capitalist John Doerr points to ambition and a thirst for knowledge.
"The best entrepreneurs are the ones who really go the distance with their companies, who are always learning," said Doerr, a partner in...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Like a pathologist who examines cells and tissue to determine what ails the patient, economist Joseph Stiglitz has been dissecting the U.S. economy to find out what caused its spiral into recession.
The Nobel prize-winning economist admonished regulators and...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Michelle Clayman, MBA '79, founded a New York asset management firm that now invests $6 billion. Not bad for a girl whose grandmother said her education would be wasted, that it would make her "eyeballs spin around in her head," Clayman recalled.
Later, after...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS -- James Wolfensohn is all about balance. The former World Bank president introduced himself to a student audience Jan. 11 by talking about how he is grateful at this point in his life to devote time and money to a "balance between business and nonbusiness...