Professor Stefanos Zenios, the Charles A. Holloway professor of Operations, Information, and Technology and Professor of Health Care Management.
Zenios' course Health Care Management and Innovation, examines the strategic forces that shape market-based health care systems, the quality of care delivered in such systems, and the incentives for innovation.
In Biodesign Innovation—co-taught with faculty from the Biodesign Program at Stanford University— interdisciplinary teams of students from the GSB, Medical School, and School of Engineering develop prototypes for medical devices to address important unmet medical needs and business plans to commercialize these products.
Prof. Zenios talks about Biodesign Innovation
"The best job in the world is being a faculty member at
Stanford.
I get to work with bright, accomplished students
who are committed to learning and becoming better leaders
and managers, and with great colleagues.
I can take my research
on negotiations and team performance and watch its impact
on my students as they go out into the world.
What could
be better?"
Margaret A. Neale
John G. McCoy-Banc One Corporation Professor of Organizations and Dispute Resolution
MBA Faculty
Our faculty are not only accomplished teachers, but also leaders in their fields and known for advancing management thinking.
Thought Leaders and Motivators
Stanford Business School faculty members represent a range of interests, expertise, and backgrounds as rich and diverse as the business world itself.
Accomplished teachers from all over the globe, they are also renowned in the academic world for developing cornerstone theory, authoring enduring textbooks, and advancing management thinking.
The Stanford Business School faculty includes:
- 3 Nobel Laureates
- 3 members of the National Academy of Sciences
- 15 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2 recipients of the John Bates Clark Medal in economics
Close Contact
Faculty members bring their work into the classroom, giving students early access to the latest research—before it filters into consulting firms, major corporations, and social sector organizations.
With our 7-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio, you will receive more contact here with business thought leaders than you would in any other graduate business program.
As a result, you gain access to the latest research in a wide range of management areas including accounting, economics, finance, human resources, leadership, marketing, operations, organizational behavior, politics, and strategic management.
Stanford GSB Faculty Who Have Changed the World
- Mary Barth holds the academic seat on the International Accounting Standards Board.
- Alan Enthoven is a leading strategist on health care who helped design the managed competition model of health-care reform.
- Irv Grousbeck created the search fund, an investment vehicle in which investors financially support an entrepreneur's efforts to locate, acquire, and grow a privately held company.
- Hau Lee and Seungjin Whang discovered the "bullwhip effect" in supply chains and pioneered the teaching of supply chain management in business schools, now a standard in MBA programs around the world.
- James Patell facilitated a groundbreaking partnership between Stanford and the nonprofit Light Up the World Foundation to bring safe, affordable lighting to people in China, India, and Mexico.
- Jerry Porras coauthored Built To Last, considered one of the most influential books on creating a visionary and successful company.
- Paul Romer is one of the pioneers of new growth theory, which provides a foundation for business and government thinking about the dynamics of wealth creation.
- Myron Scholes received the Nobel Memorial Prize for the creation of the Black-Scholes options pricing model, a benchmark formula for the valuation of stock options.
- William Sharpe received the Nobel Memorial Prize for his development of the Capital Asset Pricing Model, an economic model that weighs the potential gain from an investment against its potential risk.
- Kathryn Shaw served on the Council of Economic Advisors under President Clinton and has been among the leading researchers developing the new subfield of "insider economics," which examines the impact of human resource practices.
- A. Michael Spence received the Nobel Memorial Prize for his work on signaling theory, which is recognized as one of the key ideas of modern information economics.
- James Van Horne has authored textbooks used worldwide to teach financial management.