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Patell Honored by Haas Center for Service
March 2007
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—James Patell is a 2007 winner of The Miriam Aaron Roland Volunteer Service Prize, presented by the Haas Center for Public Service. The prize honors a Stanford faculty member who "over and above the normal academic duties—engages and involves students in integrating academic scholarship with significant volunteer service to society."
The Herbert Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management in the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (GSB), Patell leads innovative programs and initiatives, which have influenced and inspired MBA students to apply their management skills to effect positive social change. As associate dean of the GSB from 1985-91, he provided oversight for the Public Management Program (PMP). He revitalized the PMP, largely through his creation of a Public Management Initiative that provides students the opportunity to delve deeply into meeting pressing social needs. Patell was also a founding member of PMP's Faculty Advisory Board, helping to ensure stability of the Certificate in Public Management program that today enrolls over 25 percent of GSB's students.
One of Patell's most innovative and important courses at Stanford, co-founded with David M. Kelley (Mechanical Engineering), is Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability. Through his comprehensive vision, Patell brings together students from disciplines as diverse as business, engineering, computer science, medicine and product design to seek practical, market-based solutions to challenges faced by the world's poor. These students gain confidence in their own potential to improve individual lives and communities. Patell's dedication goes beyond the classroom. He has devoted countless hours to helping individual students with projects as well as implementing his own new ideas, thereby modeling the integration of academic scholarship with service for social impact.
Patell received the 2007 Robert T. Davis Award, presented by the GSB faculty to recognize an individual for a lifetime of service and achievement. Currently the co-director of the Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing at Stanford, he is also a founding faculty member of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, otherwise known as Stanford's d-School. Patell serves as an exemplar of the power of one individual to inspire others and to create change.
