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Alumni Entrepreneur Reunion
May 21, 2008
Chuck Holloway
Breakout group: Advisory Boards 
(morning)
Panel moderator: Setting Culture in Your Company (afternoon)
Charles Holloway is the holder of the Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers Professorship in Management. Professor Holloway has become a leader in the study and teaching of entrepreneurship and technology management. He has recently developed two new courses in this area,Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Strategy and Management in Supply Networks. He also teaches courses on formation of new ventures. He is the co-director of the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Graduate School of Business aimed at curriculum development and research on smaller, rapidly growing companies. He was the founding co-chair of the Stanford Integrated Manufacturing Association, a cooperative effort between the Graduate School of Business and the School of Engineering which focuses on research and curriculum development in technology and manufacturing, and helped develop a joint program to prepare doctoral students in this area.
Professor Holloway has a BS in electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and an MS in nuclear engineering and Ph.D. in business administration at the University of California, Los Angeles. He joined the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1968, where he has served in a variety of positions including Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, from 1980-87 and 1990-91. Prior to coming to Stanford, Professor Holloway served as assistant to the Technical Director at Naval Reactors, a joint organization of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Bureau of Ships, where he worked closely with Admiral H.G. Rickover on the development of nuclear powered ships. He also worked as a senior engineer for Bechtel Corporation's Scientific Development Department.
Professor Holloway has served as a board member for more than ten start-up companies in a range of industries. He is currently on the board of SRI International as well as several smaller companies. He is the author of Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: Models and Choices,co-editor of The Perpetual Enterprise Machine--Seven Keys to Corporate Renewal Through Successful Product and Process Development, and many articles in the field of management.
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