Center for Leadership Development and Research: Stanford GSB

Students celebrating their win during the first GSB Executive Challenge.

[photo - students celebrating win during GSB Executive Challenge]

Executive Challenge: More than 160 GSB alums and executives test student leadership skills in 2007 Executive Challenge.
Corporate Governance: Stanford's Directors Forum brings latest research to the boardroom
Video FileVideo (from CNBC)
Leadership in Focus: Wall Street Journal highlights new video case approach
Sample 'Leadership in Focus' Video
CLDR in the News: The Wall Street Journal interviews Evelyn Williams about leadership in the GSB's new curriculum
Faculty Research Highlights: Professor Charles O'Reilly says leadership turnover directly affects startup success
Faculty Seminar Reading List: Shaping the debate on Executive Compensation, with Professor Dave Larcker

Leadership in Focus: The CLDR introduces video collection of teaching resources, available at no charge for academic audiences.

Recent events: Government leaders with business backgrounds converged on the GSB for a week focused on public sector leadership.

Our mission is to contribute in significant and important ways to the advancement of leadership knowledge and the development of leadership talent.

We consider organizational leadership a noble pursuit. The Center for Leadership Development and Research (CLDR) contributes to that pursuit by bringing together leadership scholars, students and practitioners to share their respective experience and develop insight.

GSB Students Speakers and events Video cases Alumni engagement

What we do

Teaching, Research and Outreach

The Center exists to provide a platform for business school faculty, students, alumni and practitioners to study and learn about the central challenges faced by those leading organizations today. Our goal is to produce a deeper understanding of leadership–one that is both intellectually engaging and personally meaningful to the various constituencies we serve.

Upcoming and Recent Events

A President's Perspective: The Honorable Vicente Fox,
Former President of Mexico (March 5, 2008)

Sponsored by the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Students and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

The Dean's Speaker Series, open to GSB students and faculty.

Henry "Hank" Paulson, U.S. Treasury Secretary (3/7)
George Roberts, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, KKR (3/11)
Dave O'Reilly, Chairman and CEO, Chevron (4/8)
Wendy Kopp, Founder, Teach for America (4/17)

Connecting leadership resources at the GSB

Leadership is a hot topic. Read about some of the resources, recent events and faculty research at the GSB here.

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