Word: stanfords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...registration drives and ads, among other things, he asserts. Assuming that ever creative political pros will always find--or make--a hole in the dike through which more money can pour, some argue that trying to limit contributions isn't the best approach. Yale law professor Ian Ayres and Stanford economist Jeremy Bulow proposed last year in an article in the Stanford Law Review that donors should be allowed to give as much money as they want, with one new rule: the money would come in through a blind trust, so the candidate could not find out who gave...
...their systems--so they can deliver product by the quickest means." Adaptec, a $1 billion global semiconductor company based in Milpitas, Calif., which uses Extricity technology to connect with its business partners worldwide, offers a textbook example--literally. The company's B2B strategy is a case study at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business...
...primary hurdles to widespread adoption of B2B strategies are not technological but organizational and all too human, in the view of Stanford University professor Hau Lee, who has spent his career studying supply-chain management. "Large corporations," he says, "are slower to let go of old business practices. They believe maintaining the status quo will help them preserve their commanding position as a market leader...
...legalization of abortion in the early '70s prevented a significant number of would-be criminals from coming of age in the 1990s, according to a controversial study, "Legalized Abortion and Crime," by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and Stanford University law professor John Donohue III. They suggest that the rise in abortions after the 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade may explain as much as half the overall decrease in crime from 1991 to 1997. Says Donohue: "In 1981 a third of all pregnancies ended in abortion. That social phenomenon will have a large repercussion...
Egads! Yale, Harvard and Princeton have fallen out of first. Cal-Tech, a distant No. 9 last year, has vaulted into the top spot. On the vaunted U.S. News & World Report "Best National Universities" list, Stanford has dropped two places to No. 6. And Johns Hopkins, relegated in 1998 to shameful second-10 status, is back on its feet at No. 7 in a tie with Duke and UPenn, both of whom are a rung lower than last year. But don?t freak out, aspiring teens and parents, the world of top-flight universities isn?t undergoing some seismic shuffle...