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GSB Overview

Vibrant Community

The Stanford Graduate School of Business brings together 100 outstanding faculty scholars and more than 720 talented students in a vibrant community where values such as risk taking, continuous learning, collaboration, and integrity are embraced; complacency is not an option; and the art and the science of management are the context.

Developing General Management Leaders

The best general managers must understand the complex interrelationships that are facts of life in business. The Stanford MBA Program is designed to develop well-rounded general managers who can see and understand these complexities. Instead of focusing on teaching current best practices, which can quickly become obsolete.

GSB promotes an enduring style of thinking and mode of analysis crucial to dealing with the fast-changing business world. At the GSB, future leaders learn to manage change and to develop strategies to meet the unknown and the unforeseeable.

Stanford MBA students receive a degree in general business management and do not major in specific disciplines. However, they do have the opportunity to tailor their studies and focus on certain areas of interest such as global management, public management, economics, finance, strategic management, accounting, and human resource management.

Enduring Frameworks

World-class, dynamic, forward-looking, and innovative, Stanford's MBA curriculum is enriched constantly as it incorporates new ideas. Students build a solid framework of knowledge that will help them adapt new ideas to business challenges encountered throughout their career, as well as develop the skills needed to set themselves apart as managers. Because the GSB's curriculum is grounded in the academic disciplines of management, it gives students the conceptual background needed to meet the challenges of the future.

Innovative Learning

Our goal is to prepare students to handle the wide range of challenges inherent in managing organizations in a dynamic world. We believe the best preparation comes from a rich array of learning experiences.

We begin by providing a solid foundation in business fundamentals. We bring cutting-edge management research from world-class leaders and scholars into the classroom. We leverage expertise and resources beyond the GSB through courses taught in partnership with other graduate schools on campus.

MBAs are exposed to a rich learning environment that includes dynamic lectures, case studies, small-group seminars, and hands-on learning opportunities.

Global and Social Impact
Stanford is a pioneer in preparing MBAs for a global business environment.

The Global Experience Requirement provides students with a variety of global study trips, service learning trips, and immersion internships.

In addition, the curriculum provides students with the knowledge and experience to address social and environmental issues to evaluate business decisions in the context of social responsibility,