Business and Law
At Law School Commencement, grads urged to chart own paths
"Suppose you could travel back in time and have five minutes with your younger self at graduation. What would you say?" asked Joe Bankman, the Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business, during Stanford Law School's Commencement exercises May 4. More than 1,500 family members and friends filled Memorial Auditorium for the Sunday morning celebration.
Wald to deliver Haas lecture today
Michael Wald, the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Emeritus, will deliver the fifth annual Miriam and Peter E. Haas Centennial Professorship Lecture on Public Service and the University. Wald's talk will be held today from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Fisher Conference Center at the Arrillaga Alumni Center. It is free and open to the public.
FCC hears calls for net neutrality from lawyers and executives
Net neutrality—the notion that everyone has a right to equal access to the Internet—should be a bedrock principle of life on the web, Lawrence Lessig, Stanford law professor and intellectual property expert, told the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday as the FCC commissioners took the stage at Dinkelspiel Auditorium for a daylong public hearing.
Memory-boosting, and minty, gum? Welcome to 2008 Cool Product Expo
The Think Gum table seemed out of place at this year's Cool Product Expo in the Arrillaga Alumni Center, and it wasn't just because the company founder's mother was there.
Preparation is key to avoiding ‘worst-case outcome,’ Chertoff says
Although the best-laid plans are likely to change if a pandemic or bioterrorism attack hits the United States, having no plans in place is a sure guarantee for disaster, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told policy-makers, government officials, constitutional law experts and law students at a symposium April 11 in Washington, D.C.
Stanford to host FCC hearing Thursday on ‘net neutrality’
The Federal Communications Commission will be on campus Thursday to hold a hearing on "net neutrality," a contentious issue revolving around the power of major Internet providers such as Comcast and phone companies to influence the technical workings of the web.
Business School honors alumnus Henry Segerstrom with 2008 Arbuckle Award
Real estate development magnate Henry Segerstrom, whose firm developed one of the nation's largest shopping malls—South Coast Plaza—was presented with the prestigious 2008 Arbuckle Award by the Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni Association on Feb. 27.
During talk, San Fransisco mayor calls for more risk taking in politics
As demonstrators lined up outside the California Supreme Court building during the debate over the constitutionality of a law banning same-sex marriage, San Francisco's charismatic Mayor Gavin Newsom was talking to a Business School audience about the difference between sweet talk and concrete action when it comes to being an effective leader.
Newsstand
The February 2008 issue of Stanford Business magazine can now be read online at http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/index.html. Here are some highlights:
Exhibit at Hoover contrasts official, nonofficial views of World War I in England
While the current installation in the Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion may focus on England in the throes of World War I, no one should dismiss its theme as irrelevant or untimely: It's about a government anxious to put a positive spin on a bloody conflict in order to ensure a steady supply of soldiers.
Week devoted to innovation, can-do attitude returns to campus
A weeklong program devoted to entrepreneurship that debuted last year at Stanford returns on Friday, featuring speaking engagements open to the public and student activities such as a start-up job fair and "speed dating" session where would-be entrepreneurs will have an opportunity to pitch their business ideas to Silicon Valley venture capitalists.
Pledge of $1.5 million will endow chair honoring alumnus Warren Christopher
O'Melveny & Myers, an international law firm, and a number of its current and retired partners have committed $1.5 million over five years to endow the Warren Christopher Professorship of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy, a joint chair of the Law School and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI).
Recalling early years, Diamond talks about what matters to him
Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution who is often tapped on campus, as well as by national news media and global governmental bodies alike for his perspective on Iraq, the spread of democracy and the rule of law, gave a more personal talk last Wednesday in the "What Matters to Me and Why?" series of the Office for Religious Life.
Price changes way people experience wine, study finds
In what will be music to the ears of marketers, the old adage that you get what you pay for really is true when it comes to that most ephemeral of products: bottled wine.
Trustees approve preliminary plans for new housing and Law School building
The Stanford University Board of Trustees recently gave the green light to preliminary plans to build entry-level homes for junior faculty, townhouse-style rental homes for coaches and a new building for the Law School's legal clinics program and faculty offices. The trustees gave concept and site approval to all three projects at their Dec. 10-11 meeting.
