256 Posts found for Source: Stanford University

According to Professor of Organizational Behavior Shelley Correll, women are not seeing career advancement and opportunities they way they did in past decades. Despite good intentions by corporations and individuals, unconscious biases are holding women back. But it doesn’t have to stay that way.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Shelley Correll | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Career, Women in Business

A good boss can make a big difference. But what makes a supervisor effective? Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor of Economics Kathryn Shaw found that strong managers use similar strategies and have a lasting positive impact on the careers of their employees. Here’s how they do it.

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: Beth Rimbey, Kathryn Shaw | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

One scholar shows how you can gain more power, and why you should be leery.

Content: Article | Author: Shana Lynch | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Personal Development

Companies need ambidextrous leaders who can simultaneously exploit and explore their markets.

Content: Article | Author: Theodore Kinni | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Management, Strategy

Your job as a presenter is to engage your audience, to pull them forward in their seats. Unfortunately, audiences can be easily distracted, and they habituate quickly. To counter these natural tendencies, you must diversify your material to keep people’s attention, with variation in your voice, variation in your evidence, and variation in your visuals.

Content: Quotation | Author: Matt Abrahams | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Stanford Graduate School of Business PhD alum Kathleen Eisenhardt, a professor at Stanford University’s School of Engineering, studied how product development teams burdened by a complicated set of rules frequently derail while teams with no rules at all never even get started.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Kathleen M. Eisenhardt | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Teamwork

Key takeaways from analyzing 100,000 presentations.

Content: Article | Author: Matt Abrahams | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

The conventional wisdom today is “let’s make it easier to start a business.” But what makes Silicon Valley great is not that it’s easy to start a business. It’s that it’s possible to start another one after you fail. That’s why the ones which succeed are so good.”

Content: Quotation | Author: William Barnett | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Entrepreneurship

How external factors pressure people to cooperate.

Content: Article | Authors: Lily B. Clausen, Robb Willer | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Two scholars measure the economic impact of VC-funded companies.

Content: Article | Authors: Ilya A. Strebulaev, Will Gornall | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Economics, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

Should the chairman always be independent? Do CEOs actually make good directors?

Content: Article | Authors: Brian Tayan, David Larcker | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Corporate Governance

A little more than two years ago, Stanford GSB lecturer and serial board member David Dodson conducted an informal survey of company board members. He queried CEOs as well as the members, and compiled a list of best practices for these advisory panels.

Content: Multimedia Content | Authors: David Dodson, Deborah Petersen | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Corporate Governance

Managers are often chosen for reasons other than competence.

Content: Article | Authors: Elizabeth MacBride, Lindred Greer | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

A professor of organizational behavior explains why strategic thinking is key to taking an idea to the next level.

Content: Multimedia Content | Author: Jesper Sørensen | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Leadership, Management, Organizational Behavior

Honesty isn’t always the best policy when it comes to performance reviews.

Content: Article | Authors: Edmund L. Andrews, Iván Marinovic | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior

In Kenya, a Stanford researcher shows that ethnic diversity can spur productivity.

Content: Article | Authors: Edmund Andrews, Sangick Jeon | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Failure is just that thing trying to move you in another direction.

Content: Quotation | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Success / Failure

Entrepreneurship can be personally rewarding and good for the economy, if we wipe the stardust from our eyes.

Content: Article | Authors: George Foster, Lee Simmons | Source: Stanford University | Subjects: Economics, Entrepreneurship

Is classic research on decision-making still relevant today?

Content: Article | Authors: Jonathan Bendor, Lily B. Clausen | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Personal Development

A Silicon Valley VC shares his thoughts on persistence, the importance of believing, and when to ignore the spreadsheet.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Bill Snyder, Vinod Khosla | Source: Stanford University | Subject: Entrepreneurship