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MBA Career Management Center

 

Director's Biography

Andy ChanAndy Chan, Assistant Dean and Director
MBA Career Management Center, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Andy Chan has broad experience in the field of career development and recruiting, with six years leading Stanford's MBA Career Management Center (CMC) and five years at the helm of two for-profit career development and recruiting organizations. As the Assistant Dean and Director of the CMC, Andy manages the Center, which each year helps more than 750 graduate students develop their individual career vision and goals, as well as connect with thousands of world class companies. He also oversees the Management Communication Program, aimed at developing critical listening, interviewing, and presentation skills. Andy teaches and advises students and alumni on career, leadership, and new business issues. His most popular classes are Career and Life Vision, Strategic Career Management, and Evaluating Offers and Negotiations.

Under Andy’s leadership, the Center has doubled the number of staff, added a dedicated international career advisor, developed new career education programming, including videotaped mock interviews for every student, upgraded the Center’s recruiting operations and facilities, implemented a comprehensive online recruiting system, and created an innovative process for students and recruiters to connect with each other more efficiently. Andy also oversees Alumni Career Services for which the school has developed new career education and networking events, web resources and executive coaching capabilities for 25,000 alumni worldwide.

Prior to joining the Business School, Andy was the president and CEO of eProNet, an online recruiting and career network that featured exclusive relationships with top university alumni associations, including Stanford. Prior to eProNet, he was president and CEO of MindSteps, a venture-backed corporate education software start-up whose customers included HP, Visa, Wells Fargo and Monsanto. Andy has held general management, marketing and business development positions at The Learning Company, The Clorox Company, WorldRes, SyberVision Systems, and Dole Packaged Foods Corporation. He was a management consultant at Bain & Company.

Andy is dedicated to serving people and encouraging them to discover and realize their career and life vision. He is a business consultant to executive professionals and start-up firms, an academic advisor to Stanford undergraduate students, the faculty advisor for the business school Christians in Business club, and a group leader for 9th grade boys at his church. He coaches a girls youth soccer team and has held other volunteer leadership and teaching positions at his church. As a Stanford alumnus (BA ’84, MBA ’88), former varsity swimmer and class president, Andy is a steadfast supporter of Stanford. He was a chairman of the Stanford Athletic Board and the events co-chairperson for his 20th year undergraduate Stanford reunion. Andy and his wife, Jessie, have three children, Alex (14), Natalie (9) and Angela (5).