New GSB Home A Place to Learn, Engage, Connect

When I talk with alumni about our progress — how our new curriculum is transforming students, and now how the new Knight Management Center supports and enables our mission — the prevailing response is, "I wish I could come back." Good news: You can.

The Knight Management Center, which opened fully in April, has been designed to serve as a nexus for learning and a catalyst for change. Knight is intended to bring people together — scholars, students, alumni, other leaders — to share information, provide intellectual challenge, and inspire toward action.

Come to Knight and engage with current students, and help them learn from your experience. Every year, hundreds of alumni act as mentors, providing guidance to our students on career and life. Even more alumni serve as liaisons to the more than 60 active student clubs, speak at student events, act as industry liaisons, conduct mock interviews for job-search preparation, and help us welcome admitted students, among other activities. Faculty often seek alumni with specific experience to come to the classroom, to help students understand the real-life application of their learning. In the Executive Challenge, alumni come from around the globe to serve as participants and judges in a series of experiential leadership challenges for first-year MBA students. Alumni who have participated in these ways often say how inspiring and fun it is to share their knowledge and interact with so many high-potential students. They also say how much they learned from the experience and how it reacquainted them with the potential in themselves.

Come to Knight and further your own learning. Many of our events that feature speakers, such as CEOs or high-level government officials, are open to our community. Every year we host dozens of conferences that welcome alumni. Highlights from this past year include the Stanford Africa Forum, where African government officials, business executives, entrepreneurs, and investors gathered together to explore opportunities for development on the continent; the Health Care Summit, where doctors, researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors exchanged ideas about innovations in health care devices and services that can save lives and improve their quality; and the education conference, co-hosted with the Stanford School of Education and Goldman Sachs, where educators, entrepreneurs, and investors contributed insights on how to improve student learning and the future of education. Knight is a place to share ideas and to learn new ones, to increase your understanding about the world, and to gain a new appreciation for your own dreams and abilities.
Come to Knight and celebrate. The reunions we've hosted thus far at Knight have been outstanding successes. In addition to the opportunity to catch up with classmates, you can learn from one another at panels on subjects such as "From Managing to Directing" and "Doing Well by Doing Good." This year, we welcomed many of you to the Knight Management Center Open House, a celebration that included faculty panels, self-guided tours, and festivities in the Town Square. We expect that Knight will continue to provide an energizing, fun venue that sparks your own creativity and sense of possibility.

Come to Knight and connect. You can use the Bass Center for research or even as a quiet place to read and think. You can grab a coffee with a former professor in the Town Square or meet a classmate for dinner in our outdoor dining pavilion before going to a Stanford sporting event. Knight is a place to rekindle past relationships, to make new colleagues and friends, and to leverage the unrivaled GSB community.

Come to Knight and make it your new home. Please take advantage of these wonderful resources and offerings that your generosity has helped provide. Come to Knight to engage with students, learn, celebrate, and connect. Stay to participate, expand your horizons, and be inspired.

Welcome!

Stanford Business magazine

New GSB Home A Place to Learn, Engage, Connect