School News & History

Members of the Stanford GSB Class of ’94 drew up a playbook for business leaders looking to promote racial equity.

“There are times when I look around and everything I see,” says William Eaton, MBA ’75, “I can imagine adding strings to it.”

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.

Want to solve America’s urban homeless crisis? First, you have to believe it can be fixed.

How a professor’s love of art led her to a career in marketing research.

Joe Lacob, MBA ’83, looks back on the night he got booed into silence by his customers.

A pair of Stanford GSB professors use movies, skits, and Saturday Night Live-style cold opens to teach the “broad and deep applicability of finance.”

The Stanford Executive Education Black Leaders Program is the only program of its kind offered by a leading business school.

Three women from the Class of ’72 discuss what it was like to be at Stanford GSB when the school was 98% male.

“I have had to learn to fight bureaucracy, corruption, and complacency — skills I hadn’t considered at business school.”

By the numbers, learn more about the newest class of MSx students.

Members of the Black Business Student Association answer the question: “What does Black History Month mean to you?”

Four decades ago, Eaton drafted a business plan that became the blueprint for the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery. Today he still runs the place, making one-of-a-kind guitars.

Pretending to be lawmakers, Stanford GSB students hone negotiating skills that work in the boardroom as well as the back room.

Despite the economic challenges of the global pandemic, the job market for Stanford GSB graduates remained robust.

“Eddie’s natural ability to see, analyze, and explain all the economics of any given situation was truly remarkable, and a textbook example of comparative advantage.”

Stanford GSB shares progress and learnings, and our focus on racial equity as a priority.

“We have to make sure people see that they belong,“ says Rouse. “That’s ultimately what this work is intended to do.”

Visual highlights of our campus and community from a tumultuous year.

This biennial award recognizes outstanding contributions from a financial economist under age 40.