Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
Rather than focus the university inward on research, Terman took the radical step of encouraging Stanford professors and graduate students to start companies applying engineering to pressing military problems. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have also fused those activities. America’s adversaries understand this.
SVPG
OCTOBER 16, 2016
It’s not one skill, as much as many skills deployed to navigate people and situations of all types, from brilliant but sometimes dogmatic engineers, to passionate designers, to executives that might be genuinely fearful of, or threatened by, technology, to angry customers, and the many people that just don’t like change.
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YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 1, 2015
Before Ford became one of the most significant names in the automobile industry, he worked for Edison at the Edison Illuminating Company between 1891 and 1898 as an engineer. During WWII, ‘the Big Three’ met in Iran in 1943 at the famous Tehran Conference. Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
Whatever their eventual path and outcomes – I would argue that their impact on Iran, Tunisia & Egypt – and frankly on the way that we as a society communicate now – has rendered them one of the most important technologies of the past decade.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 17, 2017
In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. It also requires that they think through compatibility, scalability and deployment long before this gets presented to engineering.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
The class is joint listed in Stanford’s International Policy department as well as in the Engineering School, in the department of Management Science and Engineering. — Why This Course?
Growthink Blog
OCTOBER 11, 2010
The teapot dictators in Iran and North Korea may get all the ink, but it is the Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian technocrats with their quiet defense of free markets and trade that make hay.
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