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June 29, 2022
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“What I Did Shouldn’t Be Possible:” How This Immersion Program Transformed the MBA Experience
For 25 years, GMIX has sent students around the world and out of their comfort zone.
May 26, 2022
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An Unlikely Collaboration Prepares Leaders in the Business of Education
Joint master’s degree program expands the scope of educators’ training.
May 04, 2022
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Bob and Dottie King Win Stanford’s Uncommon Citizen Award
Long-time university supporters established Stanford Seed.
April 25, 2022
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Bulletins and Bulletproof Vests: A Feisty Community Newspaper Shifts Its Focus to Helping Ukraine Survive
The paper, co-founded by Nataliya Anon, MBA ’01, is a source of news for Ukrainian-Americans and support for people in the war zone.
April 25, 2022
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Business and Government: Power and Engagement in the 21st-Century World
A new course pushes students (and instructors and guests) to question their assumptions and confront real-world challenges.
April 22, 2022
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Maker: Jason Mayden
Designer and entrepreneur Jason Mayden, MS ’11, finds inspiration at the junction of science and art.
April 11, 2022
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Changemaker: Design as a Lifestyle, Design as a Doorway
How inspiration and insight converge on the path to great products.
March 31, 2022
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Hard Lesson: When a Smart Conversation Is the Wrong Conversation
Andy Laats, MBA ’97, recalls Nixon’s dilemma: How to grow without bailing on its core partners
March 23, 2022
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Alex Tonelli, MBA ’11: What Matters to Me Now and Why
“People wrote me off as a kid from a broken home. I owe it to the people who invested in me to impact the lives of others.”
December 03, 2021
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Can Childcare Be Fixed? These Students Went Looking for Solutions
Two MBA students spent a year surveying parents, executives, and policymakers about our “unprecedented childcare crisis.”
November 18, 2021
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A Pandemic Cookbook Serves up a Recipe for Community
A delicious side project brings busy students together to share stories about food.
November 09, 2021
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Ted McKlveen, MBA ’21: Cutting Emissions in Heavy-Duty Transport
Determined to address climate change with hydrogen-powered vehicles.
October 25, 2021
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New Alumni Director: Times Have Changed, and We Must, Too
Renee Hirschberg wants to hear what alumni need now, and how Stanford GSB can help.
October 20, 2021
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The Women of the Class of ’72 Look Back, Nearly 50 Years Later
Enrolling at Stanford GSB at the height of the women’s movement was an inflection point for both the students and the school.
October 11, 2021
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Stanford Economist Guido Imbens Wins Nobel in Economic Sciences
Guido W. Imbens shares the Nobel Prize for his contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.
September 28, 2021
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Peter Georgescu, MBA ’63: What Matters to Me Now and Why
“I owed this country and I wanted to pay it back in whatever role my future would hold.”
June 23, 2021
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Alumni Offer Graduation Tips on Laughter, Love, and Life after Stanford GSB
Personal lessons that emphasize a different kind of bottom line.
May 27, 2021
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Knight Management Center Marks 10-Year Anniversary
The state-of-the-art complex, designed for “structured serendipity,” prepares to open — again.
April 13, 2021
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Agents of Growth
How Stanford Seed deploys alumni to lift the global economy.
April 12, 2021
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Peer to Peer: How Do I Foster a Racially Equitable Firm?
Members of the Stanford MBA Class of ’94 drew up a playbook for business leaders looking to promote racial equity.
April 09, 2021
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Maker: Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery
“There are times when I look around and everything I see,” says William Eaton, MBA ’75, “I can imagine adding strings to it.”
April 08, 2021
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Green Giants: Five Stanford GSB Alumni Quietly Pulling Levers to Save the Planet
Forget about electric cars and meatless meat: Mounting a serious response to climate change requires inventive work in less-glamorous sectors such as risk management and private equity.
April 06, 2021
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Give Them Shelter
Want to solve America’s urban homeless crisis? First, you have to believe it can be fixed.
April 02, 2021
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Hard Lesson: In Sports, the Clientele Cares About One Thing… Winning
Joe Lacob, MBA ’83, looks back on the night he got booed into silence by his customers.
