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AME — Arts, Media, and Entertainment Club

BBC — Britsh Broadcasting Corporation

BBSA — Black Business Student Association

CEMEX — Zambrano Hall houses the 600-seat CEMEX Auditorium

CEO — Chief Executive Officer

CES — Center for Entrepreneurial Studies

CLDR — Center for Leadership Development and Research

CMC — Career Management Center

d.school — Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University

DSI — Design for Service Innovation

EANABS — Equally Attractive Non-Alcoholic Beverages

EAP — Exclusive Academic Period

E@T or EAT — Epicureans @ the GSB

ESP — Entrepreneurial Summer Program

EV — Electric Vehicle

FARM — Food and Agriculture Resource Management Club

F&I —  Finance and Investment Club

FOAM — Friends of Arjay Miller

GER — Global Experience Requirement

GMIX — Global Management Immersion Experience

GSBeats — Music Club

GST — Global Study Trip

IT — Information Technology

JBSA — Jewish Business Students Association

JFK — John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York

KMC — Stanford GSB Knight Management Center

LBO — Leveraged Buyout

LGBT — Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

LIRR — Long Island Rail Road

LPF — Liquidity Preference Function

MAAP — MBA Admissions Ambassadors Program

MARRS — Meeting and Room Request System

MCI — Mastery in Communications Initiative

MGEManaging Growing Enterprises class

OB — Organizational Behavior

OSP — Open Space Preserve

PMP — Public Management Program

SA — Student Association

SAIT — Student Association/ IT Committee

SFO — San Francisco International Airport

SLT — Service Learning Trip

SO — Significant Other (term refers to spouses, partners, and boy- and girlfriend)

STEP — Stanford Tsinghua Exchange Program

TALF — Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility

TALK — Informal activity where students share their personal stories. TALK 12 refers to talk by members of the MBA classf of 2012.

TARP — Troubled Asset Relief Fund

TED — Technology, Entertainment, Design (an organization with a mission to spread ideas through national and regional speaking events)

t-group — Training Groups (referring to student sections for the Interpersonal Dynamics class – aka “Touchy Feely”)

TMNT — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Touchy Feely — Nickname for the Interpersonal Dynamics class

VC — Venture Capital

VIMValues in Management is the coaching class that complements the Leadership Perspectives visiting leader series

WIM — Women in Management club

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