News
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2021 virtual alumni reunion recap
Participants from across the world, who otherwise might not have been able to attend, benefited from the virtual format.
March 15, 2021
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Should the United States keep screening all blood donations for Zika?
A Stanford study suggests that blood centers spend $80 million a year to avert a vanishingly small risk, and that federal authorities should reassess the requirement.
March 02, 2021
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Riitta Katila: How diversity drives innovation
An expert in entrepreneurship argues that greater diversity is the key to corporate creativity.
February 22, 2021
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Kathleen Eisenhardt: The pace of high tech is like jazz not a symphony
A pioneering female faculty member, she eschewed conventional number-crunching to show how in-depth case studies best reveal the improv culture of high-growth companies.
January 29, 2021
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January 13, 2021
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January 12, 2021
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How to save democracy from technology
MS&E Prof. Ashish Goel and colleagues investigate the influence of large digital platforms and suggest policies aimed at curbing their influence.
January 05, 2021
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MS&E responds to COVID-19
MS&E researchers are using their expertise in data, analysis, and modeling to find solutions to problems brought about during the COVID-19 crisis.
December 20, 2020
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Yinyu Ye: Sports led me from the rice fields to Stanford
An aptitude for athletics helped transform a professor of management science and engineering from a rice farmer during China’s Cultural Revolution into a world-renowned scholar.
December 09, 2020
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Stanford PhD students investigate racial disparities in COVID-19
COVID-19 has hit Black and Hispanic populations harder than most. PhD student Anneke Claypool is among researchers investigating interventions.
December 01, 2020
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November 16, 2020
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Greetings from the new Chair
Incoming Fortinet Founders Chair of MS&E Prof. Pamela Hinds conveys her current thoughts about department priorities over the next few years as she takes the helm.
November 04, 2020
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Mechanism Design for Social Good workshop sets example for diversity and social good in research
Co-organized by PhD candidate Faidra Monachou, Prof. Irene Lo, and colleagues, MD4SG'20 employed techniques from social good research in the design of the conference itself.
October 29, 2020
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Paul Milgrom, Bob Wilson win Nobel prize in Economics
Prof. Milgrom, who holds a courtesy appointment in MS&E, has been influential to many in the department.
October 14, 2020
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September 25, 2020
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Why prisons and jails have become COVID hotspots
A new study shows that with few opportunities for social distancing and relatively low sanitary conditions, the virus is spreading fast in America’s jails and prisons.
September 23, 2020
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August 10, 2020
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Stocks rally despite rise in US COVID-19 cases; professors share thoughts
In The Stanford Daily, MS&E Professor Edison Tse says the pandemic will change the way businesses operate.
August 05, 2020
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July 30, 2020
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Students create computer models to combat COVID-19 on three continents
A series of class projects help guide life-saving public health policies in India, Peru and Botswana.
July 21, 2020