Last December, 4 intrepid Stanford MBA students led a global study trip across Paris and Beirut. Their theme focused on learning about the special relationship between France and Lebanon—symbolizing one of the closest ties between a Western and Middle Eastern country in the world. Luckily, I found a spot on their trip, which is now ...
Avinash Kaushik began blogging on web analytics in 2006. Wiley called him to turn it into a book, Web Analytics an Hour a Day. He wrote it in 7 weekends working 7am to 9pm. Royalties from the project, ~$90K after 2 years, go to his favorite charities. His second book, Web Analytics 2.0, donated $16K ...
A few friends missed the first lecture of ACCT 331: Global Financial Reporting and asked for my notes. I’ve had them in my bag for a week, but keep missing the opportunity to pass them along. So I thought I’d write them up here (below). Also, writing this out also helps me crystallize to myself ...
Next week, 110+ Stanford MBA students fly to Salt Lake City for the 2010 Sundance Independent Film Festival, skiing and house parties across over a dozen vacation homes rented for the weekend. Many thanks to the hard working Arts, Media and Entertainment Club for organizing the trip. Friday and Saturday, I’m seeing films with my ...
Is Beth Kanter someone who: a) has 300K+ Twitter followers? b) raised 200K+ for Cambodia kids to go to school using social media? c) is giving a PoST lecture at Stanford on her birthday? d) All the above (hint, right answer) Above: Beth speaks this morning at Stanford about Cambodian orphans Once upon a time, ...
Had dinner with Minister He Yafei from China this evening. During the conversation he asked Baba Shiv what made the Stanford GSB different from other schools. Baba replied there are two types of people in the world: Type I people are afraid of making mistakes. Type II people are afraid of missing opportunities. Stanford is ...
One of my favorite writers, Neil Gaimen, gave a benediction this year at Symphony Hall for 2010: May your coming here be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful. And don’t forget to make some art–write or draw or ...
McKinsey’s twitter account for GSB recruiting is where I first learned about coffee chats with Lauren Ullman (Stanford MBA ‘07), this year’s McKinsey campus ambassador for the GSB. In my mind, it makes a big difference talking to alums versus corporate recruiters. Alums have hands-on context for both the school and the role, so conversations ...
Wrote an article on speed reading a few weeks ago that got picked up on the blog of Steve Yoshida, an MIT Sloan School MBA: Above: Excerpt from Steve Yoshida’s post on speed reading I can’t read Japanese, so I ran Steve’s blog through Microsoft Translator, an online service transforming websites from one language to ...
JobNob (founded by a GSB alum) connects cash-strapped startups with professionals willing to work for traditional or alternative compensation—i.e. including people working part time or for internships. I attended their Ivy League Happy Hour event a few weeks ago and hung a shingle: Above: WorkPlayLove “booth” at JobNob event—btw, anyone interested in collaborating with me ...