Stefanos Zenios, the Charles A. Holloway Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology; Professor of Health Care Management; and Professor of Bioengineering.
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 Schools of Business, Medicine, and Engineering develop prototypes for medical devices to address important unmet medical needs and business plans to commercialize these products.
Creating Ideas
Dean Saloner talks about how the Stanford GSB's world-class faculty members go under the hood to research, synthesize, and deliver cutting-edge management thinking.
MBA Faculty
Our faculty includes Nobel Laureates, members of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and recipients of the John Bates Clark Medal in economics.
These world-renowned professors span a range of interests, expertise, and backgrounds as rich and diverse as the business world itself.
Our faculty bring to the program real-world experience and the latest research in a range of management topics, from accounting to strategic management. Our 6-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio gives you more direct contact with business thought leaders than any other graduate business program.
News and Research
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World-Changing Faculty at StanfordMary Barth held the only 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. 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. 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. More Faculty News
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