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Reliance Industries to Offer Fellowshi For Indian MBA Students

Reliance Industries Limited and the Stanford Graduate School of Business have announced the creation of the Reliance Dhirubhai India Education Fund to support promising Indian students with financial need while pursuing an MBA degree at Stanford.

With 75 Years of Experience, Jackson Library Looks Ahead

Seventy-five years after its founding, the Business School’s J. Hugh Jackson Library has moved from shelves of books to becoming a center for digital information. When the School moves to its new campus now being planned, the Jackson Library will be the centerpiece of the Knight Management Center.

Criticism May Produce Innovation, Wal-Mart CEO Scott Says

Wal-Mart’s innovative approach to environmental sustainability and its addition of health care services to stores were partly triggered by critics of the company in other areas.

Changing Recruitment Opens More Boards To Women

Just 15 percent of board seats for Fortune 500 companies are women, but women who have managed profit-and-loss units are more likely to be recruited for positions. A sold-out event in New York for Business School alumnae discussed “How and Why to Join a Board.” 

New Executive Program for Women Leaders Offered

Executive Program for Women Leaders, a five-day executive education leadership program will be offered for the first time May 12 to 16. It will cover the strategies and skills women need to manage their careers and maximize their professional and personal goals. The application deadline is March 31.

GSB Joins 10,000 Women Campaign with Goldman Sachs

The Stanford Graduate School of Business will be an initial partner with The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., of 10,000 Women, a global initiative to provide underserved women, predominantly in developing and emerging markets, with business and management education.

The Dean's Hit Parade List

The Platters, Puccini, and Banjo Patterson were some of the names on the music playlist for Dean Robert L. Joss when campus radio station KZSU hosted him on the air.

The Effect of Ghana’s Gold

A student study trip to Ghana touched both sides of a community where a gold mining operation by Newmont Mining had changed the social structure and living patterns of villagers.

The Barefoot MBA Teaches Lessons Worldwide
Teaching basic business skills to villagers in the developing world so they can run their micro-companies more efficiently is the goal behind the Barefoot MBA, a program developed by two Stanford Graduate School of Business students.

India Trip Studies Health Service Providers
MBA students on a service learning trip to India visited several sustainable/profitable health organizations such as a pharmacy, a eye glasses distributor, and the Aravind Eye Hospital, all sponsored by Acumen Fund, founded by Jacqueline Novogratz, MBA ‘91.

Kenyan Bank Focus of Case Study at Graduate School of Business
A student trip to Kenya introduced a Stanford Business School professor to a successful Nairobi bank and led to a case study that links MBA students to the African continent.

Education and Business: A Joint Success Story
Business School alums Jim Shelton, Gloria Lee, and Jennifer Sigler are just some of the graduates of Stanford’s  joint Business/Education degree program who are making a difference in school classrooms. 

Web-based Nonprofit Helps Mom and Pop Grow
After two years of operation, Web-based nonprofit Kiva has 123,000 lenders whose money goes to support 18,000 entrepreneurs in 39 countries. At $25 per donor it attracts $1.5 million a month to help the poorest of the poor.

Exchange Program Links MBAs from Stanford
and Bangalore, India

Sixteen Stanford MBA students got a close look at the business climate of India today during the inaugural phase of a program linking the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India.

Infosys Leaders Discuss Benefiting Stakeholders and Society
Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murty, two of India’s best known executives, share their experiences in leadership and management with current MBA students during a visit to campus as the first Denning Distinguished Fellows in Global Business and the Economy.

Summer Program Links MBA Students to Small Startups
MBA students spend 8 to 10 weeks working in a company that’s just getting started or in its early stages of growth through the Entrepreneurial Summer Program offered for nearly a decade by the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.

Study Groups Don't End When These Students Graduate
An innovative program from the Stanford Business School’s Lifelong Learning department has paired more than 75 doctoral students and GSB graduates for study groups that keep them stretching their intellect and having fun.

It’s Often Smart to Make the First Move in a Negotiation
Making the first offer in a negotiation can have the power of setting a starting point, Professor Margaret Neale advised a conference of nonprofit managers. She advises being aggressive—“just this side of crazy.”

A Brand Is a Promise to a Customer
Nonprofits may not compete as fiercely as for-profit businesses, but they must find ways to make their brand stand out and evoke emotions from potential supporters.

Actress-Activist Natalie Portman Urges Students to Help Alleviate Poverty

With a presentation on microfinance, actress-turned-activist Natalie Portman kicked off the Social Innovators Speaker Series launched by the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She also called on students to take social action to alleviate poverty. (October 2007)

Sustainable Business Approaches Explored In New Executive Program

More companies in a variety of industries are looking hard at the way they do business to see how to do the least harm to the environment. Over 30 people, including a CEO, five vice presidents, and more than a dozen managers, tackled the issue as part of a new executive education class taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Two New Joint Degrees Approved
MBA students will be able to pursue joint degrees in Environment and Resources and in Public Policy under two new programs approved by the faculty senate.

Welcome to the MBA Class of 2009
The MBA class of 2009 comes from 54 countries, has worked in more than 60 industries, and includes former managers, reporters, bodyguards, a sixth-generation avocado farmer, and the national flamenco champion of Taiwan. (September 2007)

Business and Engineering Collaboration Launches Sustainable Travel Company
A new eco-tourism agency, Whole Travel, Inc., was developed in Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities, an integrated lab course at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. The class guides students through the process of evaluating an opportunity and creating a new enterprise. (September 2007)

Business School to Offer New MBA Curriculum

The faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business has overwhelmingly approved major changes in the content and delivery of management education through its MBA Program. At a May 24 2006 meeting, the faculty voted on a detailed vision for the new curriculum, to be implemented in fall of 2007.

New Loan Forgiveness Program Gives International MBA Students More Options

A loan forgiveness program for international students returning to work in developing countries has been launched by the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The program affords qualifying MBA students a greater opportunity for applying their business skills to stimulating developing the economies of developing nations. (April 2007)

Stanford Brings Innovation and Management Executive Program to India

Nearly 200 corporate executives, business leaders, alumni, and other distinguished guests attended a two-day executive education program in Mumbai, India, titled Innovative Strategies for a Dynamic Economy. Sponsored by the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford School of Engineering, the program was held January 15-16. (January 2007)

Dutch Adopt Enthoven’s Plan of Managed Competition in Health Care

The Netherlands has become the first nation to inaugurate a system of universal health insurance based extensively on a plan first proposed in 1978 by Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Alain Enthoven, who coined the term “managed competition.” (November 2006)

Stanford Business School’s Offspring in Peru Spreads Worldwide
More than 40 years after he served as its founding dean, Alan B. Coleman, PhD ’60, has been honored by ESAN, the graduate management program he helped the Business School create in Lima, Peru. (November 2006)

Why Send 30 MBA Students Halfway Around the World at Christmas?
A study trip to Israel included meetings with leaders of business, government, and Nobel Laureate Shimon Peres. It also included some moments of clear insight for the 30 MBA students. This piece was written by Myra H. Strober, Professor of Economics at the Business School, and Professor of Education in the School of Education. (October 2006)

2006 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Yunus Describes His Work
2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus, an economist who founded Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, was a participant in the Global Poverty Conference sponsored by the Business School’s Center for Global Business and the Economy. At the 2004 conference Yunus described the work of Grameen Bank, a pioneer in micro lending that makes money available to those living in extreme poverty, especially women, so that they can launch their own businesses.
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The Stanford Challenge Program Addresses Global Problems, Leadership, Academic Excellence
Stanford University has launched an ambitious university-wide program to seek solutions to the century's most pressing global challenges, enhance the education of future leaders and strengthen its academic excellence. To enable that effort, the university is launching "The Stanford Challenge," a five-year, $4.3 billion fundraising campaign. (October 2006)

Nonprofit Interns Celebrate SMIF’s 25th Anniversary
The Stanford Management Internship Fund has been supporting MBAs in summer jobs in the nonprofit sector for 25 years. Brian Kelley, MBA ’82, one of the group’s founders, recalls it supported seven interns the first year. There were 27 in the summer of 2006. (October 2006)

Summer Program Offers Grad Students a Mini-MBA
The Business School’s new Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship draws on interdisciplinary strengths to give graduate students the basics of management education plus lessons in entrepreneurship and business growth. (October 2006)

Baby Boomers Find Second Careers Working for Social Change
Increasingly older workers are choosing to spend their later working years doing things that matter to them, providing a “wellspring of innovation” by either working for or volunteering with nonprofits, government programs, or foundations. That’s good since estimates are nonprofits will need 640,000 new executives over the next decade. (September 2006)

Stanford Social Innovation Review Receives $1 Million Gift
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill Draper has made a gift of $1 million to the Stanford Graduate School of Business to support the School’s Stanford Social Innovation Review.  (September 2006)

Six New Faculty Arrive
Six newcomers to the Business School faculty this year include three in organizational behavior, and one each in accounting, leadership, and international business. (August 2006)

Nike Founder Phil Knight to Give $105 Million to Stanford Business School
NIKE Inc. founder and chairman Philip H. Knight, MBA ’62, will give $105 million to Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. It is believed to be the largest gift ever given to a business school. (August 2006)

MBA Students Get First Hand View of Washington
Secretary of State Colin Powell described how he applied lessons learned as an MBA student at George Washington University when he met with 20 Business School students during their third annual spring study trip to the nation's capital in April, 2004.

Schwab, General Atlantic and eBay are Founding Partners for Stanford Business School's Center for Electronic Business and Commerce

Charles Schwab & Co., General Atlantic Partners, LLC, and eBay have become founding partners of the Center for Electronic Business and Commerce at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Dean Robert Joss announced on December 13, 1999.

Robert L. Joss Named Dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business

President Gerhard Casper has chosen Robert Joss, a leader in global banking, former Treasury Department official and Stanford Ph.D., to become the next dean of the Graduate School of Business.