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STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Some of this spring’s Business School graduates are embarking on a nontraditional job search. A four-member team with a dream class project drew up plans to launch a no-frills airline in Colombia. And just to make it really interesting, they intend to promote...
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 — “Companies still thinking about the environment as a social responsibility rather than a business imperative are living in the dark ages,” said Carter Roberts, President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Roberts delivered the annual von Gugelberg...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - United and Continental Airlines merged last year to form the world's largest carrier, an aviation colossus with $30 billion in revenue that ferries 144 million passengers to 371 cities in 59 countries annually, oversees a fleet of 1,200 aircraft, and employs...
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 — Auto firms, household appliance makers, and others are busy developing products designed to save energy and reduce global warming. But the most effective strategy to save the planet from rampant consumption might simply be soundly scolding people who insist...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — If the world had to rely on the United States for all of its oil, the supply wouldn’t last very long — one year to be exact. According to calculations by Gilbert Masters, Stanford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus, current oil...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —For global mining conglomerate Rio Tinto, 2008 was both the best of times and the worst of times.
A world leader in production of copper, coal, diamonds, and iron ore, the company's business was expanding at breakneck speed that year. They had just purchased...
While 33 Chilean miners were trapped underground for 69 days, Laurence Golborne, Stanford Executive Program ’96, was busy overseeing the rescue operation, fielding questions from journalists from around the globe, and comforting the family members of the men nearly a half mile beneath the activity...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS -- Among the many CEOs who have been invited to speak at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, one thing made James Mwangi different: The students, or at least most first-year MBAs, were expected to be familiar with his story. Mwangi, who is the head of...