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Leadership
Power Corrupts, Especially When It Lacks Status
Volunteer organizations face many challenges. In this audio interview Laney Whitcanack discusses her solution, an online platform named BigTent, which she created to support volunteer-based group leaders without a lot of operations money
Deborah Gruenfeld of the Stanford Graduate School of Business had some sobering news to share with a group of high-level women executives and entrepreneurs. "When it comes to leadership," Gruenfeld told the group, "there are very few differences in what men and women actually do and how they behave. But there are major differences in perception.
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![[photo - Guilt]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Sorry-Post-It.jpg "[photo - Guilt]")
Stanford GSB researchers find that how people respond to mistakes can be a "clue to who they are.”
![[photo - Kenji Tateiwa]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Kenji_Tateiwa_CSI.jpg "[photo - Kenji Tateiwa]")
Tokyo Electric’s manager of nuclear power, Kenji Tateiwa, MBA ’04, cites the value of cross-border sharing of crisis management knowledge through his experiences in the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami – and event that, according to Tateiwa, "almost shattered my belief in nuclear" .
![[photo - Liberty & Justice sewing]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/liberty_justice_sewing.jpg "[photo - sewing at Liberty & Justice garment factory]")
Building a fair-trade manufacturing business in Liberia is helping entrepreneur Chid Liberty realize a goal. "You can make money and do good at the same time," he told a Stanford University audience.
As Japan shifts from disaster relief to rebuilding, GSB alumni see opportunities for change and renewal.
Public education that prepares a workforce for tomorrow's needs is the cause that most challenges her, said Penny Pritzker, JD/MBA '84, the 2011 recipient of the business school's Arbuckle Award.
When oil began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico last year, scientists, engineers, and operations workers all had different ideas about what to do. The biggest lesson may have been getting these different groups to work together, Marcia McNutt of the USGS told a Stanford Graduate School of Business audience.
The United States has recovered from high debt in the past but there are no easy solutions to today's estimated $14 trillion bill, panelists told a business school audience.
As the world watched, Laurence Golborne, SEP '96, found himself directing Chile's efforts to rescue 33 miners trapped below ground for '69 days. Golborne, his nation's mining minister says, it was the most intense experience of his life.
![[photo - Peter Loscher]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Peter%20Loscher%203.jpg "[photo - Peter Loscher]")
Siemens AG needed a new set of corporate leaders and standards to recover from one of the worst scandals in corporate history, says Peter Löscher, the CEO brought in to reform the firm.
![[photo - Starfish and the Spider]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/ss.jpg "[photo - Starfish and the Spider]")
Two GSB alums who wrote about leaderless organizations find their ideas have resonated with groups ranging from the Tea Party to environmental organizations.
Stanford GSB researchers find that how people respond to mistakes can be a "clue to who they are.”
Tokyo Electric’s manager of nuclear power, Kenji Tateiwa, MBA ’04, cites the value of cross-border sharing of crisis management knowledge through his experiences in the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami – and event that, according to Tateiwa, "almost shattered my belief in nuclear" .
Building a fair-trade manufacturing business in Liberia is helping entrepreneur Chid Liberty realize a goal. "You can make money and do good at the same time," he told a Stanford University audience.
As Japan shifts from disaster relief to rebuilding, GSB alumni see opportunities for change and renewal.
Public education that prepares a workforce for tomorrow's needs is the cause that most challenges her, said Penny Pritzker, JD/MBA '84, the 2011 recipient of the business school's Arbuckle Award.
When oil began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico last year, scientists, engineers, and operations workers all had different ideas about what to do. The biggest lesson may have been getting these different groups to work together, Marcia McNutt of the USGS told a Stanford Graduate School of Business audience.
The United States has recovered from high debt in the past but there are no easy solutions to today's estimated $14 trillion bill, panelists told a business school audience.
As the world watched, Laurence Golborne, SEP '96, found himself directing Chile's efforts to rescue 33 miners trapped below ground for '69 days. Golborne, his nation's mining minister says, it was the most intense experience of his life.
Siemens AG needed a new set of corporate leaders and standards to recover from one of the worst scandals in corporate history, says Peter Löscher, the CEO brought in to reform the firm.
Two GSB alums who wrote about leaderless organizations find their ideas have resonated with groups ranging from the Tea Party to environmental organizations.
![[photo - Chris Bradford]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/Bradford.jpg "[photo - image - Chris Bradford]")
How can one social enterprise help transform Africa into a peaceful and prosperous continent? By developing and supporting its future leaders.
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Can business be a power for good? Jean Oelwang, CEO of Virgin Unite, says yes. By collaborating with members of the Virgin group such as Virgin Mobile, Virgin Trains, and Virgin Airlines, Virgin Unite strives to demonstrate that socially responsible innovations can bridge all sectors.
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![[photo - Photo: Marcia McNutt]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/mcnutt%204771.jpg "[photo - Photo: Marcia McNutt]")
The 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was one of the greatest environmental disasters the world has experienced, and proved to be a serious setback for environmental sustainability efforts internationally. For 87 days, oil poured out a mile below the ocean. Marcia McNutt, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, talks about the leadership lessons learned from this calamitous spill.
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What if you could influence people to act on their best intentions? Professor Jennifer Aaker has spent most of her career researching the science of getting people to do the right thing.
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Volunteer organizations face many challenges. In this audio interview Laney Whitcanack discusses her solution, an online platform named BigTent, which she created to support volunteer-based group leaders without a lot of operations money
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A Bay Area philanthropy organization, key White House staff talk about how government policy is now being made, how good ideas are surfacing in Washington, and how new partners are being invited to the table.
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![[Video-Using Entrepreneurial Approaches to Solve the Problems of Global Poverty]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/DJKD7jYyOmk/0.jpg "[Video-Using Entrepreneurial Approaches to Solve the Problems of Global Poverty]")
In turbulent times like ours, we need “hard-edged hope,” says Jacqueline Novogratz, the much-celebrated founder of the Acumen Fund. Affirming that the world is indeed a better place now than it was 40 years ago, she traces her own journey from a childhood witnessing racial inequities all around her in Detroit to a career leading the field of social impact investing. Novogratz rallies the community of Stanford business graduates to be part of the new generation of innovative problem solvers.
![[Video-Solutions for Extreme Need ]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/RF-dOt1oLF4/0.jpg "[Video-Solutions for Extreme Need ]")
What if visiting the doctor to get a CT scan was as fun as sailing on a pirate ship? asked Doug Dietz, veteran designer of MRI and CT scan machines. Dietz had seen the widespread anxiety of children who came into the hospital and wanted to change that negative experience.
![[Video-GSB Black Business Student Association Award Winner Jim Shelton]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/YyJeVSGbbts/0.jpg "[Video-GSB Black Business Student Association Award Winner Jim Shelton]")
James H. Shelton of the Office of Innovation and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education won the prestigious Tapesty Award for 2011.
![[Video-New York Excellence in Leadership Award Dinner Honoring Jacqueline Novogratz]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/gH3sU1kLzso/0.jpg "[Video-New York Excellence in Leadership Award Dinner Honoring Jacqueline Novogratz]")
Jacqueline Novogratz, MBA '91, wins the 2011 Excellence in Leadership Award from the Stanford GSB.
![[Video-Leading an Industry Turnaround: Lessons from Government Interventions at GM and Chrysler]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/nwra7zXOsAM/0.jpg "[Video-Leading an Industry Turnaround: Lessons from Government Interventions at GM and Chrysler]")
How did an Obama administration task force turn around the auto industry?
![[Video-What It Takes to Be a Remarkable Leader: John Doerr, Venture Capitalist]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/LDWURusr02k/0.jpg "[Video-What It Takes to Be a Remarkable Leader: John Doerr, Venture Capitalist]")
What are the ingredients for great leadership and entrepreneurship today?
![[Video-Keeping Talent on Road to Success-Panel]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/vUhgTh_iJTU/0.jpg "[Video-Keeping Talent on Road to Success-Panel]")
How can major companies keep senior women in the workforce?
![[Video-Entrepreneurship From a Woman's Perspective]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/UuBtgc0thok/0.jpg "[Video-Entrepreneurship From a Woman's Perspective]")
To be a successful entrepreneur you need to ignore your naysayers and have a passion bordering on obsession.
In turbulent times like ours, we need “hard-edged hope,” says Jacqueline Novogratz, the much-celebrated founder of the Acumen Fund. Affirming that the world is indeed a better place now than it was 40 years ago, she traces her own journey from a childhood witnessing racial inequities all around her in Detroit to a career leading the field of social impact investing. Novogratz rallies the community of Stanford business graduates to be part of the new generation of innovative problem solvers.
How can one social enterprise help transform Africa into a peaceful and prosperous continent? By developing and supporting its future leaders.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Can business be a power for good? Jean Oelwang, CEO of Virgin Unite, says yes. By collaborating with members of the Virgin group such as Virgin Mobile, Virgin Trains, and Virgin Airlines, Virgin Unite strives to demonstrate that socially responsible innovations can bridge all sectors.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
What if visiting the doctor to get a CT scan was as fun as sailing on a pirate ship? asked Doug Dietz, veteran designer of MRI and CT scan machines. Dietz had seen the widespread anxiety of children who came into the hospital and wanted to change that negative experience.
James H. Shelton of the Office of Innovation and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education won the prestigious Tapesty Award for 2011.
The 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was one of the greatest environmental disasters the world has experienced, and proved to be a serious setback for environmental sustainability efforts internationally. For 87 days, oil poured out a mile below the ocean. Marcia McNutt, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, talks about the leadership lessons learned from this calamitous spill.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
What if you could influence people to act on their best intentions? Professor Jennifer Aaker has spent most of her career researching the science of getting people to do the right thing.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Jacqueline Novogratz, MBA '91, wins the 2011 Excellence in Leadership Award from the Stanford GSB.
How did an Obama administration task force turn around the auto industry?
Volunteer organizations face many challenges. In this audio interview Laney Whitcanack discusses her solution, an online platform named BigTent, which she created to support volunteer-based group leaders without a lot of operations money
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Elections sometimes give policy makers incentives to pander — to implement policies that voters think are in their best interest even though the policy maker knows they are not, says Professor Kenneth Shotts. In general, an effective media reduces this tendency to pander, "but there are some exceptions to this general rule."
Individuals in roles that possess power but lack status have a tendency to engage in activities that demean others, according to new research from Stanford Graduate School of Business, USC, and the Kellogg School.
Deborah Gruenfeld of the Stanford Graduate School of Business had some sobering news to share with a group of high-level women executives and entrepreneurs. "When it comes to leadership," Gruenfeld told the group, "there are very few differences in what men and women actually do and how they behave. But there are major differences in perception.
Differences among people in the actions they take or the opinions they express do not always reflect differences in underlying attitudes, preferences, or motivations.
![[photo - gulf_oil_spill_source_la_times]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/oil%20spill.jpg "[photo - gulf_oil_spill_source_la_times]")
Consumer and environmental groups, angry over the spreading oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, are calling for a boycott of BP, the oil giant that owns the well gushing oil onto beaches and marshes. According to research by Phillip Leslie and Larry Chavis, boycotts do in fact work and they're something businesses should be concerned about.
Lofty principles matter much less than we think in determining our moral behavior says Professor Benoît Monin. We're more likely to be guided by whether we feel we are a good or bad person or whether we feel others around us are good or bad.
![[photo - S. Christian Wheeler]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/wheeler_christian.jpg "[photo - S. Christian Wheeler]")
One benefit of knowing you're in the minority is a clearer sense of self, says marketing Professor S. Christian Wheeler. Business organizations, which have been shown to improve their decision making when diverse ideas are present, may therefore want to think about more structured ways for encouraging naysayers to speak up.
Jenny Shilling Stein reflects on lessons learned as executive director of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, and discusses how leadership and vision for scale are key ingredients for success in tackling some of the world’s toughest problems.
![[photo - Jacqueline Novogratz]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/novogratz.jpg "[photo - Jacqueline Novogratz]")
In turbulent times like ours, we need “hard-edged hope,” says Jacqueline Novogratz, the much-celebrated founder of the Acumen Fund. Affirming that the world is indeed a better place now than it was 40 years ago, she traces her own journey from a childhood witnessing racial inequities all around her in Detroit to a career leading the field of social impact investing.
![[photo - Yoriko Kishimoto]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/YorikoKishimotofromYoriko072507TwoIn.jpeg "[photo - Yoriko Kishimoto]")
As mayor of Palo Alto in 2007, Yoriko Kishimoto championed a call to action to build a green economy through innovation, including strategies for zero waste, walkable communities, renewable energy, green building, farmers markets, and open space.
![[photo - Jonathan Reckford (MBA '89)]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/jonathan%20reckford_0.jpg "[photo - Jonathan Reckford]")
Jonathan reflects on the success that came from following his heart and his faith through a chain of experiences that led him to become CEO of Habitat for Humanity.
![[photo - Daryn Dodson]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/Daryn%20Dodson_0.jpg "[photo - Daryn Dodson]")
Daryn Dodson is passionate about identifying and developing leaders with a social conscience. He has turned that passion into action by promoting entrepreneurship in post-Katrina New Orleans and in his current impact investment consulting role.
![[photo - Michael DeLapa]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/Michael%20DeLapa.jpg "[photo - Michael DeLapa]")
Michael DeLapa is heavily involved in environmental, land use, and energy issues. He has launched several non-profits in the Bay Area as well as the California Fisheries Fund.
Stanford GSB researchers find that how people respond to mistakes can be a "clue to who they are.”
Jenny Shilling Stein reflects on lessons learned as executive director of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, and discusses how leadership and vision for scale are key ingredients for success in tackling some of the world’s toughest problems.
Tokyo Electric’s manager of nuclear power, Kenji Tateiwa, MBA ’04, cites the value of cross-border sharing of crisis management knowledge through his experiences in the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami – and event that, according to Tateiwa, "almost shattered my belief in nuclear" .
In turbulent times like ours, we need “hard-edged hope,” says Jacqueline Novogratz, the much-celebrated founder of the Acumen Fund. Affirming that the world is indeed a better place now than it was 40 years ago, she traces her own journey from a childhood witnessing racial inequities all around her in Detroit to a career leading the field of social impact investing.
Daryn Dodson is passionate about identifying and developing leaders with a social conscience. He has turned that passion into action by promoting entrepreneurship in post-Katrina New Orleans and in his current impact investment consulting role.
Jonathan reflects on the success that came from following his heart and his faith through a chain of experiences that led him to become CEO of Habitat for Humanity.
As mayor of Palo Alto in 2007, Yoriko Kishimoto championed a call to action to build a green economy through innovation, including strategies for zero waste, walkable communities, renewable energy, green building, farmers markets, and open space.
In turbulent times like ours, we need “hard-edged hope,” says Jacqueline Novogratz, the much-celebrated founder of the Acumen Fund. Affirming that the world is indeed a better place now than it was 40 years ago, she traces her own journey from a childhood witnessing racial inequities all around her in Detroit to a career leading the field of social impact investing. Novogratz rallies the community of Stanford business graduates to be part of the new generation of innovative problem solvers.
Michael DeLapa is heavily involved in environmental, land use, and energy issues. He has launched several non-profits in the Bay Area as well as the California Fisheries Fund.
Elections sometimes give policy makers incentives to pander — to implement policies that voters think are in their best interest even though the policy maker knows they are not, says Professor Kenneth Shotts. In general, an effective media reduces this tendency to pander, "but there are some exceptions to this general rule."
