Leadership
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS -Plenty of corporate CEOs say they want employees who know how to have fun. But Anheuser-Busch InBev NV chief Carlos Brito, describing the demanding corporate culture he maintains, admits he doesn't even like the word.
"I think fun's too weak. ... I have fun at...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — The media business is in the rear window for Ted Turner, the bold entrepreneur who in 1980 founded CNN, the nation's first all-news cable network. Today, Turner is focused on developing ways to stop global warming, encourage energy conservation, and stem out-...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — Don Valentine, founder of Sequoia Capital, likes brevity — short presentations, short questions. But he’s long on results.
Since founding Sequoia in 1972, Valentine has financed many of the companies (Apple, Oracle, Electronic Arts, NVIDIA, Cisco, Google, and...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Expect the volatility that has socked financial markets for the past several months to continue unabated, Thomas Barrack Jr., the founder, chairman, and chief executive office of Colony Capital, a private equity real estate company headquartered in Los...
His first doctoral student, Barnett Parker, calls him a “guru,” and the Pfeffer University professor doesn’t use the term lightly. Indeed, for Seenu Srinivasan, the Indian-born professor who has become a legend and a beloved mentor in the field of marketing science, the much-overused Sanskrit...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Successful leadership means taking risks, being fully engaged in the challenges of one’s organization, and being prepared to give up everything for one’s values and principles, four graduates of the Stanford Sloan Master’s Program told their peers.
“If you want...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — A U.S. Navy fighter pilot, a best-selling novelist, a medical instrument inventor, and the founder of an underwater logging company (who got into the program even though he didn’t finish high school) were on hand to demonstrate the diverse makeup of the...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Five accomplished second-year MBA students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business have been named 2010 Siebel Scholars.
They join an elite group chosen by a faculty committee based on academic achievement, leadership, and citizenship within the Business...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - A cyber security specialist who organized nonprofit volunteer events in the nation's capital, a business analyst who founded India's largest ad network, a mechanical engineer and management consultant who discovered his inner "Disney Imagineer," an investment...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—It's a down-home American success story with a global-economy twist.
Mother whipped up fancy face creams during the Great Depression with the help of a chemist uncle. Father kept the books and ran the factory while she worked her marketing magic. Their son, the...