Faculty Voices

Hear from Stanford GSB faculty and gain insight into what it’s like to research and teach here.

Voices

I like building things that demonstrate how a class of problems can be solved.

Susan Athey

The Economics of Technology Professor

I’m a lot more confident in the stubbornness of the American voter than other people are.

Andy Hall

The Davies Family Professor of Political Economy

To be able to take my research and my connections to help save lives — that was extremely gratifying.

Jennifer Aaker

The General Atlantic Professor

I had to do a better job of understanding what is wrong with the financial system.

Darrell Duffie

The Adams Distinguished Professor of Management and Professor of Finance

Future generations will judge us as to what type of bold action we do or don’t take today.

William P. Barnett

The Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations

I’m interested in all things cultural.

Michele J. Gelfand

The John H. Scully Professor in Cross-Cultural Management and Professor of Organizational Behavior

I’ve always been interested in what quantitative methods can teach us about the world.

Rebecca Diamond

The Class of 1988 Professor of Economics

I came to this realization that nothing was going to work in economic development if the government wasn’t functioning.

Katherine Casey

Professor of Political Economy

To me, discovering curiosity and generosity — that’s at the heart of scholarship.

Huggy Rao

The Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources

How do we settle this debate? Simple. Look at it mathematically: What is possible to do?

Kuang Xu

Associate Professor of Operations, Information & Technology

Companies talk about their good intentions. I’d much rather have good institutions than good intentions.

Ken Shotts

The David S. and Ann M. Barlow Professor of Political Economy

I believe behavioral science is exactly what we need to make a difference in this world.

Szu-chi Huang

Associate Professor of Marketing

My main hope remains education... This crisis in capitalism and the crisis in democracy are intertwined.

Anat Admati

The George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics

I’ve been focusing on and talking about these issues of social change for a very, very long time.

Sarah Soule

The Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior and the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

Crises may be extremely rare, but there is a meaningful difference between extremely rare and impossible.

Matteo Maggiori

The Moghadam Family Professor of Finance

What I try to impress on people is that the rational brain is not good at being rational.

Baba Shiv

The Sanwa Bank, Limited, Professor of Marketing

In some ways, all of academia hinges on this receptiveness to having your mind changed.

Mohammad Akbarpour

Professor of Economics

That first step you take out of school ends up having long-term ramifications for where you end up working later in life.

Paul Oyer

The Mary and Rankine Van Anda Entrepreneurial Professor and Professor of Economics

I think marketing in 20 years’ time will look like finance. Everything will be rigorous and analytical.

Jonathan B. Berk

The A.P. Giannini Professor of Finance