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...good night's sleep is right up there with chicken soup as a cure-all. But can it help someone beat cancer? A growing body of research suggests it might, according to an article in the current issue of Brain, Behavior and Immunity. Stanford University's Dr. David Spiegel and his colleagues point to studies showing that shift workers have higher rates of breast cancer than women who sleep normal hours. Two possible culprits are the hormones melatonin and cortisol. Melatonin is an antioxidant that mops up damaging free radicals, but the body produces less of it when sleep cycles...
...companies that value fun are those with enough smarts to see that a fun culture is aligned with their business. Such a fit is obvious at a company that designs games, so when Bob Moog, fresh out of Stanford Business School, started University Games in 1985, he made one of his goals to have fun every day. Over the years, he has taken employees on a cross-country Amtrak murder-mystery tour and flown employees to Los Angeles to watch tapings of TV shows and participate in game shows. When the company faced a cash-flow crisis in the early...
...best part--and the part that should appeal to the thank-God-it's-Friday working stiff--is that having fun pays off for everyone. Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Business School, thinks executives like Zimmer at Men's Wearhouse are nothing short of brilliant. "If you have a bunch of surly employees who would rather have a proctological exam than wait on you, then you won't want to shop in the store," he says. "It's hard to build and maintain a positive culture...
Alma mater: Stanford...
...school, and having to pay tuition or not. When a kid is 17 or 18, we’re trying to get him to look at the big picture, which is 20 years down the line with a Harvard degree in your pocket, but we lose a lot to Stanford and Duke because they have scholarship opportunities...