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Located between San Francisco and San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford University is recognized as one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions.
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630 Serra Street
Suite 120
Stanford, California 94305-6032
(650) 723-2300
NAICS Code Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools: 611310
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Why Aren't There More Female Leaders in Technology?
BNET
- 2009-08-03
At the AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford University, an innovation panel discusses ways to encourage women to join the computer industry. Many women come to the industry through other sides of the business--like marketing--and need mentoring and encouragement to find their inner geeks. Panelists include Marissa Mayer, vice president of search...
Work-Consumption Preferences, Cyclical Driving Forces, And Unemployment Volatility
BNET
- 2006-08-22
The author develops a model that accounts for the movements of unemployment in the U.S. over the past few years. The model pays close attention to evidence about preferences for work and consumption. It attributes bilateral efficiency to employment relations, with respect to the formation and continuation of matches and...
Stanford University's Experience With Managed Competition
BNET
- 2004-12-01
Stanford University has a "managed competition" model of health insurance. Stanford contributes the cost of the low-cost plan, and employees are responsible for premium differences between this plan and other offerings. Each employee gets what he or she wants and is willing to pay for, and everyone has low-cost access...
Information Technology and Purchasing Strategy: Two Necessary Enablers of More Efficient Construction Processes
BNET
- 2004-10-01
This paper focuses on two types of re-engineering strategies, concurrent engineering and outsourcing to low cost countries and how they relate to the alignment of contracting and IT strategies. Concurrent engineering offer substantial schedule savings but can also result in more communication and the potential of being locked-in to a...
Minimizing Misclassification of Damage using Extreme Value Statistics
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- 2004-09-14
Structural health monitoring is a process of evaluating and ensuring the safety and integrity of structural systems by converting sensor data into structural health monitoring information. The first and most important objective of structural health monitoring is to ascertain with confidence if damage is present or not. The idea is...
The Relationship Among Export Assistance, Pricing Strategy Adaptation to the Foreign Market, and Performance Improvement
BNET
- 2004-07-01
The increasing amount of export assistance provided to firms of rich and poor countries shows the high priority given by national and international policy makers to the encouragement of international trade. Despite this, relatively few international marketing researchers have discussed the effectiveness of such export assistance. This exploratory study provides...
Organization Design Optimization Using Genetic Programming
BNET
- 2004-05-21
This paper describes how Genetic Programming GP techniques are used to help project managers find near optimal designs for their project organizations. GP is used as a postprocessor optimizer for the project organization design simulator Virtual Design Team VDT. Decision making policy and individual/sub-team properties, activity assignments and percentage allocation...
Went for Cost, Stayed for Quality?: Moving the Back Office to India
BNET
- 2003-11-01
This paper examines the role of India in the offshoring of services. According to an Indian trade body, NASSCOM, the most reliable estimates of offshored BP employment was 171,500 in March 2003, up from 106,000 in March 2002 (NASSCOM-McKinsey Report, 2002). The NASSCOM-McKinsey report estimates that BPO operations will employ,...
Seasonality and Competition in Time: An Empirical Analysis of Release Date Decisions in the U.S. Motion Picture Industry
BNET
- 2002-08-12
Strong seasonality in demand, a short product life cycle, and the absence of any price competition make the release date of first-run movies one of the main strategic decisions taken by moviesÆ distributors. The absence of good observable measures of product quality creates a difficulty in separately identifying the two...
Size, Differentiation and the Growth and Profitability of Dutch Daily Newspapers
BNET
- 2002-08-01
Despite some views to the contrary, the authors' argue that organizational ecology can contribute to strategic management and managerial practice. This paper illustrate this claim by using resource-partitioning theory as a framework to make predictions with respect to the performance (i.e., growth and profitability) consequences of broad generalist vis-a-vis focus...
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