Honorary Doctorate for Enthoven
May 2008
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —Alain Enthoven, the Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management, Emeritus, will receive an honorary Doctor of Public Policy degree from the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School on June 21.
Enthoven, widely-recognized as an advocate of managed health care systems, has published widely about the economics, organization management, and public policy of health care in the United States and the United Kingdom. He is also Senior Fellow Emeritus (by courtesy) at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
After joining RAND as an economist in 1956, Enthoven participated in studies of U.S. and NATO defense strategies. He also helped pioneer the multidisciplinary approach to problems, known as systems analysis.
Enthoven received a degree in economics from Stanford University in 1952. He holds additional degrees from Oxford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During most of the 1960s Enthoven held major posts with the U.S. Department of Defense, including assistant secretary of defense for systems analysis from 1965-69. He joined the Business School faculty in 1973 and assumed emeritus status in 2000.
Pardee RAND, one of the original graduate programs in public policy, is based in Santa Monica at the RAND Corp., a nonpartisan public policy think tank.