Alphabet Chairman John Hennessy talks to The Wall Street Journal about the duty of board members and the best students to come out of Stanford University, where he directs a scholars program. This week, President Donald Trump accused Google of bias against conservatives and suggested that government intervention might be necessary. Deflecting such criticisms is now part of the job for John L. Hennessy, who became chairman of Google parent company Alphabet Inc. six months ago. Mr. Hennessy, a former president of Stanford University, will need to help guide Alphabet through a turbulent period of growth. He’s heard from users worried about data privacy, regulators wondering how to hold the search engine’s power in...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 31, 2018 13:03 UTC