Finance
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Stanford Graduate School of Business students who came to the Schwab Center on Jan.19 to learn about the perils facing today?s economy got a sobering history lesson.
At the end of World War II, the United States had accumulated substantial debt. But our...
STANFORD—Hours after Goldman Sachs executives endured a grilling by angry U.S. Senators on Capitol Hill April 27, two senior Stanford faculty members explained to a standing-room-only crowd the intricacies of the synthetic CDO market and measured the strengths and weaknesses of the Securities and...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Increased competition and falling prices of its signature products will nick this year’s financial results for Cosan, one of the world’s top growers and processors of sugarcane and ethanol.
However, the Brazilian company will continue to work toward “...
NEW YORK —Even though the institutional money management firm that she runs is in New York, Michelle Clayman clings to her roots at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. To hear her tell it, the recipient of the School’s 2008 Excellence in Leadership Award brings up her alma mater possibly a...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —In the world of investing, few can boast a personal saga as colorful and dramatic as Bill Browder's. The famed fund manager went from being "the largest portfolio investor in Russia" to "one of the biggest enemies of the state," Browder recently told a group...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Capital Research and Management Co. Chairman Emeritus R. Michael Shanahan, who helped his firm blossom into one of the three largest U.S. mutual fund companies and nurtured such startups as Advanced Micro Devices and Sequoia Capital, was presented with the...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Finance services industry leader and public servant Herb Allison will be the alumni speaker at the June 11, 2011 graduation ceremony of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In recent years Allison's career has been devoted to solving some of the most...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS -- Zoe Cruz, once one of the most powerful and highly paid women on Wall Street before her sudden ouster from investment bank Morgan Stanley in 2007, has a whole new agenda these days.
Following two years on hiatus from the business world, Cruz has resumed her...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Niklas Zennström, the man who "shrank the world" by creating free internet voice communications firm Skype in Luxembourg in 2003, is now at the helm of his own venture capital firm that's searching for the next billion-dollar technology blockbuster.
His...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Assuming the top spot at NYSE Euronext in late 2007, Duncan L. Niederauer knew that he and his top executives would need a big outreach effort to employees to convey his vision for the company. "We communicated, communicated, and then we communicated some more...