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Interdisciplinary Research
Research Initiatives
Ongoing dialogue with industry partners is an important feature of research at the Graduate School of Business. The School supports the faculty in their efforts to spend time in the field, identifying important organizational challenges, gathering data, and generating ideas for future inquiries. This relationship of mutual enrichment between industry and academe has recently found a forum in a newly launched series of research initiatives. These initiatives provide a balance between the pursuit of ideas immediately relevant to the marketplace and the basic research that carries a much longer time horizon and is the primary focus of most faculty.
GSB faculty have brought their expertise to management issues including human resource management, information technology, and entrepreneurship. Stanford's proximity to Silicon Valley and the strengths of our research faculty and of our colleagues at the School of Engineering make us uniquely qualified to contribute to these fields. Initiative topics do not fall neatly within traditional academic disciplines or functional areas, such as accounting, marketing, or finance, but instead require study by interdisciplinary teams of faculty. Doctoral students affiliated with one of the initiatives are thus exposed to ideas and issues in multiple fields, complementing the in-depth training they receive in their respective disciplines.