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An essay by Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty member Sarah Soule and coauthor Christian Davenport, University of Michigan

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We show that facial recognition algorithms can expose people’s political views from their social media profile pictures, posing dramatic risks to privacy and civil liberties.

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New research out of Stanford Graduate School of Business indicates that when we’re encouraged to view the human body as a machine (a process called dehumanization) in an effort to promote health, we actually arrive at the opposite effect.

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Corporations do not vote in elections, but their impact on democratic societies is immense.

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An essay by Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty member Sarah Soule and coauthor Christian Davenport, University of Michigan

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Both old wives’ tales and psychological literature posit that spouses’ faces become more similar over time. Scholars have argued that partners tend to occupy the same environments, engage in the same activities, eat the same food, and mimic each other’s emotions—and as these factors can also influence facial appearance—their faces should converge with time. For example, if the partners smile a lot—and make each other smile—they should co-develop similar smile lines.

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If you’re a relentlessly upbeat thinker, you may be enamored of the 10,000-hour rule, which holds that if you simply practice something regularly for a long enough time, you’ll eventually achieve mastery.

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Pandemics bring pain. But so do the prescriptions for containing them: From school closures to total lockdowns, every government-mandated approach to blunting the impact of COVID-19 involves a trade-off between lives saved and jobs lost.

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Bribery doesn’t necessarily involve suitcases of cash, all-expense-paid vacations, or secret gifts of jewelry. For people who don’t want to get caught, subtlety can be more practical.

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This study examines the obstacles and opportunities around data sharing between big tech and academia.

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Stanford Graduate School of Business today announced its action plan and specific commitments for supporting racial equity. The plan seeks to increase representation of Black Americans and underrepresented minorities at the GSB, improve the community’s sense of inclusion and belonging, use the school’s power and privilege to inspire and enable changes beyond the confines of the campus, and establish structures and resources to ensure accountability for its actions.

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Participants receive free access to Stanford’s online entrepreneurial toolkit to guide them through the process of creating and evaluating projects designed to drive recovery

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Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) Energy Club and Sustainable Business Club are hosting the inaugural Climate, Business and Innovation conference to inform the Stanford business community of the risks and opportunities presented by climate change.

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With this report, the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI) shares results from the fourth annual Survey of U.S. Latino Business Owners.

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We’re quickly approaching the time when people begin to set New Year’s Resolutions, research from Stanford Graduate School of Business shows that comparing ourselves to others via social media can help us meet our goals.

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CEO activism—the practice of CEOs taking public positions on environmental, social, and political issues not directly related to their business—has become a hotly debated topic in corporate governance.

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The MBA Class of 2018 broke records for salaries for the fourth consecutive year, yet their career choices were not about chasing the money.

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Pre-IPO governance systems are highly diverse in maturity, rigor, and structure. The SEC dictates public standards, but pre-IPO companies make vastly different choices on when and how to implement.

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Report Assesses Barriers to Growth by Examining Latino-Owned Businesses’ Financing Needs and Challenges, and Regional Differences Nationwide

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For years now, health care reformers have been pushing hospitals to do what should be obvious: protect patients from hospital-bred infections that make them sicker than they already are.

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New research from Stanford shows that corporations with tarnished reputations can regain their financial value by undertaking broad-based goodwill efforts.

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A recent study finds incumbent presidents are more responsive to public opinion when elections are imminent. Surprisingly, presidents with approval ratings that are significantly above or below average have the greatest propensity to take unpopular positions.

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Consumers may not know what they want and second-guessing them can be expensive, according to marketing research. The effectiveness of one-on-one marketing--methods to give customers exactly what they say they want--has been grossly exaggerated.

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Studying business successes without also looking at failures tends to create a misleading or entirely wrong picture of what it takes to succeed. A faculty member examines undersampling of failure and finds companies that fail often do the same things as companies that succeed.

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Two scholars removed borders between two existing countries and then calculated what the growth would have been for the hypothetical country over the past 30 years. They found when countries merge, they both almost always benefit economically.

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Political scientists have argued that creating safe liberal seats by culling large numbers of minority voters from conservative districts has inadvertently made southern congressional delegations more conservative than ever. Not so, says a Stanford Business School faculty member.

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A survey of more than 800 MBAs from 11 leading North American and European schools found a substantial number were willing to forgo some financial benefits to work for an organization with a better reputation for corporate social responsibility and ethics.

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People who add their hard-won knowledge to a common pool may become alienated from the organization and even fear that they are sowing the seeds for their own replacement.

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A study from the Stanford Business School has found that no-fault divorce laws enacted on a state-by-state basis throughout the U.S. changed the bargaining threat point within a marriage, leading to decreased rates of suicide, domestic violence, and spousal homicide for women.

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In an economy that mercilessly penalizes inefficiency, outsourcing production seems a no-brainer. But according to a study from Stanford Business School, solving the build vs. buy equation poses difficult strategic and tactical questions for outsourcing original equipment manufacturers.

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New research at the Stanford Business School examines how people become innovative, and suggests that if individuals want to enhance creativity at the office, they should mingle more and reach out to strangers.

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Psychology professor Robert B. Cialdini draws on years of research into influence and persuasion to offer four proven tools that will help nonprofit fundraisers to win donors.

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As debate rages in Congress this summer about raising foundation payout rates by a few percentage points from the current 5 percent minimum, an article in the latest Stanford Social Innovation Review asks, what about that other whopping 95 percent?

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The Stanford Graduate School of Business brought together members of the National Football League, the National Football Players Association, and players themselves for an executive development program that is the first of its kind.