Finance
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Actress and activist Natalie Portman called on an audience of students at Stanford University to think of ways they can help the world’s poor.
Speaking recently about microfinance and her work with FINCA International, a nonprofit that provides financial...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - "Live by your own personal compass and speak honestly and openly. If you do that, you'll be fine." That was the simple advice offered by Herb Allison at this year's Graduate School of Business commencement ceremony on June 11.
Allison, who received his...
The following is a pre-written transcript of the commencement address given by Herb Allison In the 40 years since Allison graduated from the GSB with an MBA in 1971, he has led a multifaceted career in the world of finance, in both the private and public sectors. In his 28 years at Merrill Lynch...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Despite civil unrest in places like Tunisia and Egypt, it's a good time to be setting one's entrepreneurial sites on the African continent, concluded more than two dozen investors, consultants, former government officials, and business people, who shared their...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Africa has an unfortunate PR problem. While new coverage of the area is often focused on political unrest, conflicts, poverty, drought — Africa is in fact doing just as well as, if not better than, other developing regions of the world. This was the message...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —It wasn't even six years ago that Saudi Arabia decided it wanted to be among the world’s 10 most competitive investment destinations by 2010, an audacious goal considering it wasn't known as an easy place to do business. But not only is it close to hitting the...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —As an MBA student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Richard D. Fairbank, MBA '81, like many of his peers, knew he wanted to start a company. "But I had no money, no experience, and no ideas," Fairbank recalled.
Several years later inspiration struck...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —A few months after Kenneth Chenault assumed the CEO chair at American Express Co., the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks destroyed the Twin Towers, damaging the company's headquarters across the street in lower Manhattan. Eleven American Express employees lost...
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 —Even in the face of plummeting market profiles and climbing unemployment, it's a great time to start a business, counseled speakers at the annual Entrepreneurship Conference at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Just be sure to use your GSB network...