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STVP Quarterly Newsletter: Autumn 2007

Welcome to the Stanford Technology Ventures Program quarterly newsletter. What you'll find in this issue:

Announcements

  • Entrepreneurship Week 2008 at Stanford University will be held February 22-29. Check out all we have planned, including the world premiere of Imagine It! - a documentary about the 2007 Innovation Challenge.
  • The Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education (REE) locations and dates for 2008 have been set. We also plan to host the second class of REE Fellows, students from around the world who work together on international teams before coming to Stanford the week before REE USA.
    • REE Asia in Sydney: June 18-20
    • REE Europe in Belfast: September 3-5
    • REE USA at Stanford/Lake Tahoe: October 22-24
    • REE Latin America in Colombia: November 5Ð7
  • Welcome to Jonathan Muller, STVP's new designer. He replaces Peter Sigrist, who is now pursuing his PhD in Environmental Planning at Cambridge University.

STVP Research News

  • We congratulate Kathleen Eisenhardt, along with former PhD student Jeff Martin, now at the University of Texas, Austin, for being awarded with Schendel Paper Prize, 2007. Additionally, Professor Eisenhardt was elected as an inaugural fellow of the Strategic Management Society, 2007.
  • Congratulations to Bob Sutton who has been named by BusinessWeek as one of the top ten all-star professors who have had an impact beyond academia. His latest book, The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't, won a Quill Award for best business book published in 2007.
  • John Weyant, STVP affiliated faculty, was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize. He is a key member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore.

STVP Educators Corner Features

Below is the lineup of speakers for our Fall quarter of the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series. Free podcasts and video clips of the following lectures are available on the STVP Educators Corner website:


The STVP Educators Corner website continues to gain popularity. There have been over 2 million downloads of our podcasts. During the past year the site had over 217,000 visitors from 185 countries.
Special thanks to Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB) for their generous sponsorship of the STVP Educators Corner.

Mayfield Fellows Graduation

We proudly congratulate the 12th class of Mayfield Fellows, who will graduate from the program on December 4. The program combines an intense sequence of courses on the management of technology ventures, a paid summer internship at a start-up company, and ongoing mentoring and networking activities.

  • Michael Chow
  • Mike Krieger
  • Gloria Lin
  • Samvit Kanoria
  • George Kwon
  • Vikram Malhotra
  • Austin Rachlin
  • Juliet Rothenberg
  • Josh Schwarzapel
  • Jeff Seibert
  • Anand Subramani
  • Jessica Verrilli

About STVP

Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) is the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University's School of Engineering.
We provide students with entrepreneurial skills that help them use technology innovations to solve major world problems, with an emphasis on the environment, human health, and other global issues. Our goal is to inspire and prepare students for leadership roles within existing organizations, new ventures, and academia.

STVP conducts scholarly research and teaches numerous courses open to all students at Stanford. Our global outreach program includes annual conferences on four continents and the Educators Corner website, with thousands of video clips and podcasts on technology entrepreneurship for anyone in the world.

Please visit our blog at: http://ecorner.blogspot.com

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