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.
