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Alumni Entrepreneur Reunion
May 21, 2008
Garth Saloner
Panel moderator: Your Relationship with your Board of Directors (afternoon) 
Economist Garth Saloner is known for his pioneering work on network effects, which underlie much of the economics of electronic commerce and business. Saloner's research focuses on issues of entrepreneurship, e-commerce, strategic management, organizational economics, competitive strategy, and antitrust economics. Much of his recent work has been devoted to understanding how firms set and change strategy, in established firms and startups.
Garth Saloner is the Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Electronic Commerce, Strategic Management and Economics and Codirector of the Center for Electronic Business and Commerce at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
Professor Saloner received a BCom and MBA (with distinction) from the University of the Witwatersrand between 1972 and 1977. He earned an MS in Statistics, an AM in Economics, and a PhD in Economics, Business, and Public Policy from Stanford University between 1978 and 1982.
He joined the faculty of the Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in 1982 and was promoted through the ranks to the position of tenured Full Professor in both the Economics Department and the Sloan School of Management. He moved to his current position at Stanford in 1990. He has taught courses in entrepreneurship, electronic commerce, strategic management, industry analysis, and competitive strategy to undergraduates, MBAs, the Sloan Program, PhD students, and in executive programs around the world. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award at the Stanford Business School in 1993.
Professor Saloner was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institute and a Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford in 1986-87, and a Visiting Associate Professor of Competition and Strategy at the Harvard Business School in 1989-90. He has been the recipient of a Sloan Fellowship and of several research grants from the National Science Foundation. He was one of the founders of the Stanford Computer Industry Project, a major study of the worldwide computer industry, funded by the Sloan Foundation, and a founder of the Center for Electronic Business and Commerce. He served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and Director for Research and Curriculum Development from 1993-96. He has been a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and has also served on several
editorial boards, including as a Coeditor of the Rand Journal of Economics. In 2006, he led Stanford's MBA Academic Program review task force that led to a significant revision of the School's MBA curriculum.
He has published over 30 numerous papers in refereed journals and books and is the author of two books: Strategic Management (coauthored with Joel Podolny and Andrea Shepard) and Creating and Capturing Value: Perspective and Cases on Electronic Commerce (coauthored with A. Michael Spence). His research has focused on entrepreneurship, electronic commerce, strategic management, competitive strategy, industrial economics, and antitrust economics. He has served as a consultant to numerous companies and law firms and is a member of the Boards of Directors of Synthean and Destination-U.
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