Discoveries, ideas and people to watch
High-profile legal cases, alleging misconduct by executives at
Countrywide Savings, Novatel, and Qwest, may be prompting the
Securities and Exchange Commission to rethink rules that permit
scheduled trading by insiders. Tagged: Public Service, Business
Dean Robert L. Joss discusses the loss of trust in many business and finance organizations and the role that business schools can play in addressing this problem.
When cutbacks are necessary, can a good boss do right by the company's
finances and by its staff? Some pain is probably unavoidable, but
Stanford Professor Bob Sutton
says that psychological and organization theory research suggests clear
ways to handle such situations with a minimum of harm to the people and
company involved.
Tagged: Business, Engineering
Free videos of Stanford's wildly popular course on creating
applications for the iPhone and iPod touch have now been downloaded a
remarkable million times from Stanford's site on iTunes U in the iTunes
Store.
Tagged: iphone, On Campus, Business, Engineering
Corporate practices are having effects not just on polar bears and
wetlands, but also they may be killing human beings, says Professor
Jeffrey Pfeffer.
Tagged: stress, Human Health, Business
In April 2009, McKinsey & Co. released a report that rocked both
the educational and business worlds, putting a $700 billion price tag
on the the difference between the
performances of high- and low- income K-12 students. Jonathan Schorr recently spoke at the GSB on how a "fascinating coalition of political opposites" is coming together to try to bridge this divide.
Tagged: K-12 Education, Business, Education
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's energetic chief executive officer, gave a
humorous and optimistic pep talk Wednesday to a large crowd of Stanford
students, including some about to graduate into the midst of the Great
Recession.
In a recent study, high school students who identified with multiple racial groups reported either equal or
higher psychological well-being and social engagement than those who
identified primarily with a single group.
A group of Stanford economists is pressing the government to streamline
the process for doling out $7.2 billion in economic stimulus money
slated for high-speed Internet development.
A plan by global financial regulators to fix the mess created by the
misuse of credit default swaps is flawed, says Darrell Duffie,
professor of finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Tagged: Business