A Diamond Is For Never

As our country matures, shouldn’t our engagement traditions?

I recently sat down with a newly engaged GSB classmate. A couple drinks in I asked him how much he paid to adorn his love’s left hand. “25k?” I guessed. He…

What I Did Last Summer

How was that summer internship? We asked rising MBA2s about their experiences, at businesses from big players — Nike, Google, a Big Three auto maker — to one-person startups. Some felt a warm engagement, others a veneer of politeness concealing a cold indifference. Autonomy, much prized…

Have hashtags killed activism?

A number of weeks back, #BlackLivesMatter was all over my Facebook feed again. This time, it was the…

All Before Breakfast

Ask how my summer was and I’ll think of the time before breakfast. Those routines before the “real” work began define and…

Until forever

Sometimes — often late at night — the name of an old acquaintance will pulse through my head like a beacon from a past life. Last…

Haikus from Summer Internships

Maybe you founded a company and disrupted an industry, all last summer. Or maybe the biggest takeaway from your internship is a collection of seventeen syllables, that classic form: the haiku.

nondisclosure — Editors’ Note, Fall 2016

Members of the GSB Community —

It is with pride that we share the Fall 2016 issue of nondisclosure, in which you’ll learn:

• How to survive an internship in which your boss (and only co-worker) leaves to take…

A new year of nondisclosure

Last year, three GSB friends joined together to launch nondisclosure — a publication by and for the Stanford Business School student and alumni community. Their vision was simple: Students here think about and work on a lot of interesting things — and they should have a platform…