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• Understanding Innovation Processes: HPI and Stanford School of Engineering Form Research Alliance

  - 2008-08-19

  Institutions Will Study What Makes Design Thinking Methodology Successful POTSDAM, Germany & PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Stanford University and the Hasso-Plattner-Institute HPI today announced a research partnership in which they will investigate the process of innovation using Design Thinking, a methodology that melds an end-user focus with multidisciplinary collaboration...

  Tags: alliance, innovation, Leadership, Potsdam, professor, Stanford University, Strategy

• As Silicon Valley, Bay Area Janitors Strike Continues Into Second Week… Striking Silicon Valley Janitors to Take Their Struggle for Justice to the 2 Million-Member SEIU Convention

  - 2008-05-27

  SILICON VALLEY, Calif. -- Striking Silicon Valley janitors announced today they will send a delegation of janitors who clean Cisco Systems, Yahoo, Oracle and Stanford University to address the leadership of the 2 million-member Service Employees International Union convention next week in Puerto Rico. There, Silicon Valley janitors will meet...

  Tags: Benefits, Leadership, salary, Stanford University

• Tour of friendship, not farewell: Downer.

  - 2007-05-27

  Byline: Tony Walker May 27, 2007 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australia's Foreign Affairs Minister, Alexander Downer, has denied that his latest visit to the US is a final "lap of honour". He says the visit was inspired by his...

  Tags: Australia, friendship, Leadership, MARKETING, Stanford University

• Rice to visit Silicon Valley, promote science education

  - 2007-05-22

  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday will visit James Flood School in Menlo Park and Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto as part of a two-day trip to California during which she will host the Australian minister for foreign affairs, Alexander Downer. The Silicon Valley stop will include...

  Tags: education, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Labs, Leadership, Stanford University, Strategy

• Secretary of state to visit Silicon Valley school

  - 2007-05-22

  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday will visit James Flood School in Menlo Park and Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto as part of a two-day trip to California during which she will host the Australian minister for foreign affairs, Alexander Downer. The Silicon Valley stop will include...

  Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Labs, Leadership, Stanford University, Strategy

• Stanford Business School Honors General Atlantic's Steven A. Denning with Excellence in Leadership Award

  - 2007-04-20

  NEW YORK -- Stanford University's Graduate School of Business honored Steven A. Denning, chairman of General Atlantic LLC, with the School's 2007 Excellence in Leadership Award at a dinner of more than 300 guests here Thursday. On a regular basis, the Business School marks the importance of leadership in...

  Tags: board, Leadership, MBA, McKinsey & Co., Stanford University

• Eagles coach swaps oval for the quad.

  - 2006-10-02

  Byline: Andrew Burrell Oct 02, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The West Coast Eagles is a dominant Australian Football League AFL club. The Eagles won the 2006 AFL premiership by one point. The club is very profitable,...

  Tags: CFO, coach, Leadership, Stanford, Stanford University

• Media Communication as a Marketing Strategy for Technology Start-Up Firms

  BNET - 2006-05-29

  The aim of this paper is to explore and describe how and why young technology firms communicate their innovations, especially the way they communicate with journalists and different media outlets. Young firms are aware of the need to influence potential stakeholders around them such as customers, venture capitalists, suppliers that...

  Tags: Marketing Strategy, Stanford University, Actor, Venture Capital, Marketing Research, Channel Management, Leadership, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Marketing, Management

• Media Advisory: Stanford Hosts Conference Encouraging Latinos to Go to Medical School

  - 2006-04-06

  STANFORD, Calif. -- More than 1,000 Latino high school students, undergraduates and health-care professionals will gather at the Stanford University School of Medicine on Friday and Saturday to discuss ways of encouraging Latino leadership in medicine as part of the 22nd annual regional Latino Medical Student Association. The theme...

  Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, leadership, SOFTWARE, Stanford, Stanford University

• Stanford News: $30 Million Gift Jump-Starts Environmental Effort at Stanford

  - 2006-02-14

  STANFORD, Calif. -- Ward W. Woods, a Stanford University trustee and 1964 graduate of the university, and his wife, Priscilla, have committed $30 million for the Stanford Institute for the Environment. Their gift will enable institute leaders to launch innovative environmental programs and fund collaborative research that may well produce...

  Tags: environment, institute, Leadership, Stanford, Stanford University