The Stanford Chronicle
Careers & Investing
Considered counsel on building a career and stewarding capital, with an eye on the long arc.
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Terman’s Bargain: How a Land-Rich, Cash-Poor University Helped Seed Silicon Valley
The story of Stanford and the tech industry is often told as one of garages and genius, but its foundations were laid by a dean, a land-use decision…
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Reading the Recruiting Season Without Losing the Plot
Campus recruiting can feel like a conveyor belt toward a few prestigious employers, but the students who fare best treat it as one tool in a longer search…
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The Application as an Argument
A job application is not a form to be filled out but a case to be made, and the habits of a good essayist turn out to be…
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What the Endowment Model Can and Cannot Teach the Individual Investor
University endowments have become symbols of long-horizon investing, but the lessons they offer individual savers are subtler, and more cautionary, than the headlines suggest.
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The Patient Owner: An Analytical Primer on Private Equity
Private equity is often caricatured as either financial alchemy or corporate plunder; a clearer view begins with how the model actually works and where its returns come from.