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Plenty of companies with charismatic leaders can still thrive after they're gone, says Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor at Stanford University's business school. Recent examples include Wal-Mart, Southwest Airlines and the Mayo Clinic, he says. The trick lies in the ability of successors to understand what made a company great--and preserve that part of the culture. And what's Jobs' secret sauce? "Most company leaders do what everyone else does," says Pfeffer. "The genius of Jobs is to get his company and its people to get out of that rut--to not follow the crowd but lead...
...ease into the new role after spending over five years within what they called one of the most contentious legal environments in the country.“The best oral advocate is someone who can understand what the question is,” said Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford Law School professor who argued a high-profile Internet copyright case before the Supreme Court in 2002. “It’s not about rhetoric.”Lessig will return to Harvard this summer—one of Kagan’s many recruiting coups as dean.Constitutional law expert...
With that elusive first victory behind it, the Crimson can start looking to turn some close losses in its favor.The Harvard wrestling team (1-5) finished winter break at the Lonestar Duals Saturday in Arlington, Texas, besting Stanford 24-21 before dropping close matches to Cal Poly and No. 7 Minnesota, 16-19 and 20-28, respectively. Despite the narrow defeats, junior co-captain Louis Caputo felt encouraged by the Crimson’s resolve against top teams.“The [duals] went well,” he said. “It felt good to pull...
...idea for the app actually came from Stanford's Flood and Black; an Apple campus rep put them in touch with Beykpour and Wasserman, who are the designated "Apple evangelists" on campus. Beykpour said that while the app launched the first day of October, it didn't really take off until two weeks later - when he and Wasserman made a spoof of the famous iPhone ad, which ran on the Jumbotron during the Oct. 11 Stanford homecoming football game. Wasserman said the duo sought approval from an Apple exec before airing the ad and got an e-mail back saying...
Whether or not Steve Jobs himself actually signed off on the ad, the iPhone-toting Stanford student body certainly liked it. More than 11,000 people have downloaded iStanford to date. Beykpour figures that number includes alumni and tour groups, because it's more than twice the number of people who can actually use the app on campus...