Stanford ENCORE Award Program to be Held in Sept.
Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni Association will hold the 2014 ENCORE Awards on Tuesday, September 23, 2014. This years’s ENCORE Awards will be held in honor of Netflix.
Each year since 1970, the Stanford GSB Alumni Association and the ENCORE selection committee recognizes a Bay Area company as the Entrepreneur of the Year (ENCORE). It is to recognize the company’s success based on the contributions of many people rather than one individual.
Stanford Researchers Receive $4.6 Million in Awards
A total of $4.6 million in awards was given to fourteen Stanford researchers, including one from the Graduate School of Business, who are addressing global poverty. The awards were given to the students from the university-wide Global Development and Poverty (GDP) initiative. Their projects, which are the first to be funded by the GDP, deal with challenges of health, violence, economics, governance and education in the developing world.
Stanford to Host 11th Annual Ecommerce Best Practices Conference
The Stanford Graduate School of Business will host the 11th Annual Stanford Ecommerce Best Practices Conference on June 16, 2014. The Stanford Ecommerce Best Practices Conference is the premier educational event for practitioners in the ecommerce industry. Leading experts from industry, legal practice and academia will address current issues facing the industry and offer practical solutions for dealing with the many legal uncertainties that arise when doing business online.
The program will feature a roundtable of general counsel from leading ecommerce companies. Some topics of discussion during the conference will include, digital copyright, new distribution channels, changing business models and the Future of TV, cybersecurity in the United States and around the globe, business aspects of new content distribution models and how lawyers should confront them, patent best practices, privacy protection in the cloud, best practices regarding virtual currencies and mobile payments, mobile and social media marketing and promotions, current global IP protection issues as well as transactional issues in cloud service, Big Data, screen scraping, database protection and Data Mining.
Stanford to Offer Dual MBA and Electrical Engineering MS Program
Stanford Graduate School of Business will be offering an Electrical Engineering MS/MBA degree program to graduate students in the 2015-2016 academic year. Students may apply for admission starting this fall.
“The joint focus recognizes that the students we educate need and want an integrated understanding of engineering, strategy and execution as they drive future innovations that increasingly involve both technology and business,” said Madhav Rajan, Senior Associate Dean and faculty director of the MBA Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
