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...main changes to the Wikipedia article which earned it its ‘disputed’ label were made by a “a current student” trying to dispel the “common misperception…that schools such as Yale, Princeton, and Stanford are pretty much interchangeable with Harvard.” (Harvard, he or she suggested, is in fact far better.)We also seem overrepresented in the numbers of our critics. In response to the section of the article in Wikipedia about how well we perform in rankings, a paragraph was added with...
Having helped Sergey Brin and Larry Page edit their initial business plan, which turned into some company called Google, Guido Appenzeller knows a fair amount about start-ups. Although he passed on an opportunity to join his Stanford buddies in taking their venture public--what's a couple of billion dollars between friends?--Appenzeller, 34, has followed their lead, co-founding Voltage Security, a fast-growing firm that has more than 150 clients...
...protect data, Voltage uses an identity-based encryption developed by one of Appenzeller's Stanford professors, Dan Boneh. The prof also taught Rishi Kacker and Matt Pauker, both of whom helped found Voltage--stop us if you've heard this one--while working out of their Stanford dorm rooms...
...Clearly, there are good arguments on both sides about the no-release policy. And were HBS only proposing to adopt an optional release policy, the debate would be less heated. Student bodies at the business schools of Stanford and the University of Chicago have done end-runs around official policy by banding together to enforce no-release policies over the official optional release policies of their schools. Since students own their grades, as the Staff note, they should be able to do with them what they want. HBS administrators, however, are saying that if this optional release policy is adopted...
...praying that high gasoline prices don't bog down the plan. Plenty of skeptics believe Wagoner's plan is too limited. "If you have an earthquake and a building falls on someone's leg and he's stuck, you amputate his leg," says Jim Matheson, a management professor at Stanford University. "That's what GM has done." Analysts say GM needs to downsize far more dramatically. Here's what auto experts believe GM will have to do to fix itself...