Word: stanford
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...rise of young women executives will fairly soon accelerate. In U.S. graduate schools of business, one in five students working toward an M.B.A. degree is a woman. The percentage is larger in the elite universities. The share of women M.B.A. recipients in last spring's graduating classes was Stanford 24%, Dartmouth 25%, Wharton 26%, M.I.T. 28%, Northwestern 30%, Columbia...
Daughter of a construction worker and a schoolteacher, Hufstedler earned a bachelor's degree in business administration at the University of New Mexico ('45) in 2½ years. She worked briefly as secretary to Stars Paulette Goddard and Burgess Meredith, then enrolled at Stanford Law School, where she graduated tenth in her class ('49) and married the man who graduated No. 1, Seth Hufstedler. She practiced general civil law in Los Angeles until 1961, when Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown named her a Los Angeles County superior court judge. In 1966 he promoted her to the California...
...most effective tool of persuasion. ''Votes change in the writing perhaps more often than in conference,'' says Justice Byron R. White. Yet Burger's colleagues find that drafts of his opinions often carry mistakes or gaps of logic; of the final product, Stanford Constitutional Expert Gerald Gunther says, ''Only in rare opinions do you get a carefully thought-out, well-developed argument...
Dick Howard. ''Most of them are inde pendent pragmatists who take each case as it comes.'' Says Stanford's Gunther...
...keeps its lines to other universities open, too, mostly through Cambridge Associates, which pools information from 20 schools. "You get into trouble in this business if you just talk to yourself all the time," Cabot says. Stanford for example, has a successful record investing in real estate development, and Harvard has begun to experiment with venture capital. Cabot says there's no reason for colleges to keep their experiences to themselves...