Education
The Stanford Graduate School of Business today announced its first Stanford Africa MBA Fellowship. The grant was created to encourage talented African citizens with a commitment to the continent’s development to pursue an MBA at Stanford.
Up to eight fellowships will be awarded annually. Each will...
Stanford Graduate School of Business has renamed its legacy Sloan Master's Program the Stanford MSx Program for experienced leaders, reflecting strategic changes in the program over the last two years. The formal name of the program will now be the Stanford Master of Science in Management for...
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are well known for building companies out of a garage or, more recently, at cafés, where they might nurse a cup of coffee for hours while cranking on their startups. But nearly three dozen teams of aspiring entrepreneurs are now pursuing new ventures out of the new...
Ronald Taylor is cofounder and former CEO of DeVry, Inc., a provider of educational services specializing in business, healthcare, and technology. In 1973 Taylor cofounded Keller Graduate School of Management, which acquired DeVry, Inc. in 1987. He retired as CEO of DeVry in November 2006. Taylor...
Ellen Siminoff is an entrepreneur, executive and advisor in Silicon Valley. Currently chief executive of Shmoop, an online educational resource for kids, Siminoff was one of the first executives at Yahoo, where she served as senior vice president of entertainment and small business. She was also...
Bob Moog, MBA '84, is CEO of University Games. The San Francisco company employs 70 people and sells 300 products, including 60 board games and other kid-friendly hits such as Colorforms and Glow-in-the-Dark Stars.
In 10 words or fewer, what is the big idea behind your business?
An entertainment...
LearnZillion is part of a new generation of education technology companies that uses the tools of the web and social media to supplement what happens in the classroom. A for-profit company, it has received funding from venture capitalists, as well as the Gates Foundation, and currently makes a...
An educational technologist, a finance whiz seeking to solve social problems, a JD/MBA candidate who is an expert on Jeopardy! bidding strategies, a hedge fund analyst who coauthored a scholarly article on pension accounting as an undergrad, and a math-econ scholar with a passion for...