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AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford Highlights Top 250 New Companies in the Digital Space

Esther Wojcicki | Posted 07.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Modu, AlwaysOn Summit, Funnyordie, Twitter, hi5, Stanford, Tony Perkins, Happiness, Meemix, Zipclip, Business News

Viewers can see demos of the products and feel like they went to the conference without paying any fees and without enduring the agonies of flying these days.

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Why Smart Brains Make Stupid Decisions

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 06.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Brain Books, Harvard, Irrational, Dark Force, Rational, Brain, Ori Brafman, Decision-Making, Sway, Smart Brain, Stanford, Psychology, Smart Brains, Books, Huffpost Books, Living News

It happens. Often. But why? To answer that, we secured an interview with Ori Brafman, co-author of Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior.

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Oprah Gives Stanford Grads Books, Calls Class To Service

Huffington Post | Posted 06.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Oprah Stanford Speech, Oprah, Stanford, Oprah Winfrey, Commencement Address, Oprah Commencement Address, Kirby Bumpus, Graduation Speeches, Stanford Commencement, Media News

Oprah Winfrey spoke at Stanford Commencement Sunday (BFF Gayle King's daughter, and Oprah's goddaughter, Kirby Bumpus, was among the graduates) and la...

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Greener B-Schools, Greener Employees

Andrew Winston | Posted 06.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Values, Employees, Business Schools, Ikea, Green Business, Patagonia, Stanford, Green News

Even though he's been studying sustainable business, Ash wants to work for a private-equity firm and says, "Am I really driven to do this by my values? The honest answer is no...It just makes good business sense to be sustainable."

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Stanford Eliminates Tuition For Low Income Families

AP | Posted 02.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Stanford, Stanford Tuition, Stanford Free Tuition, Financial Aid, Stanford Financial Aid, Business News

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Attending Stanford University next year will be a lot more affordable for some undergraduate students. The university said ...

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Study: Paying Inflated Prices Trigger Pleasure Points

i09 | Posted 01.15.2008 | Business

Read More: MRI Brain Scans, Inflated Prices, Stanford, Inflation, CalTech, Business News

Inflated prices trigger the pleasure centers in your brain more than fair ones. Not only is the idea of buying something expensive more exciting than ...

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The Top 10 State Tech Leaders

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 12.08.2007 | Business

Read More: Mit, Washington, Greater Boston, Innovation, Hudson River, Beltway, Silicon Alley, Eliot Spitzer, California, Virginia, David Hochman, Technology, Detroit, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York City, New York, Michigan, Route 128, Stanford, Silicon Valley, Maryland, Colorado, Herman Hollerith, Nist, Albany, Army, Ohio, Noaa, Alfred Beach, Alexander Graham Bell, Microsoft, Karl Compton, Commerce Department, Thomas Edison, Texas, Poughkeepsie, Air Force, Fred Terman, Itac, Nasa, Sbir, Buffalo, Rochester, Navy, Doe, Guglielmo Marconi, Business News

Why do Colorado and Ohio rank higher than the Empire State in small business innovation?

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Google Co-Founder's Sat. Wedding Is Logistical Nightmare

New York Post | Page Six | Posted 12.07.2007 | Business

Read More: Necker Island, Google Guys, Larry Page Wedding, Stanford, Larry Page, Lucy Southworth, Lucy Southworth Wedding, Richard Brancon, Most Eligible Bachelors, Google Wedding, Google, Business News

The wedding this Saturday of Google co-founder Larry Page on a tiny Caribbean island is a logistical nightmare for planners who are flying in 600 gues...

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Ex-Nike CEO Knight Goes Back To School. Literally.

Wall Street Journal | Nicholas Casey | Posted 12.03.2007 | Business

Read More: Stanford, Nike CEO, Knight Stanford, Nike, Knight Back to School, Phil Knight, Business News

Late one spring afternoon last year, a mystery man sat in the back of a creative-writing seminar at Stanford. Evidently a student, he was much older t...

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Google Fiance To Get PhD, Succeed Where Future Hubby Hasn't

Valleywag | Posted 11.14.2007 | Business

Read More: Google Founders, Necker Island, Larry Page and Lucy Southworth, Larry and Lucy, Stanford, Lucy Southworth, Larry Page, Google Wedding, Google, Business News

Lucy Southworth isn't just Google founder Larry Page's fiancée. Since 2003, she's been a student at Stanford's Biomedical Informatics program, and it...

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