Browse or search the articles below and see what some Stanford GSB alumni have been up to professionally.
Roelof Botha, MBA ’00, and Huifen Chan, MBA ’00
From their first days as students to their deep engagement as alums, a GSB couple shares why they champion student entrepreneurship and faculty research at Stanford.
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January 15, 2011
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Redesigning Research Administration for Stanford’s School of Engineering
The engineering school established a steering committee and engaged the Alumni Consulting Team (ACT) to evaluate and explore various research administration service delivery models.
November 19, 2010
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Stanford GSB Expands Social Innovation Fellowship
Launched in 2009, the Social Innovation Fellowship has been extended another three years and eligibility broadened to include mission-driven alumni addressing social or environmental problems.
October 15, 2010
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ACT Client Recognized for Innovative Work With Kids in Foster Care
The Stanford Alumni Consulting Team helped answer the question: How can we structure the relationship between the local chapters and the national organization of A Home Within?
October 15, 2010
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ACT Team Helps Coyote Point Museum Create a Sustainable Business Model and Brand
ACT volunteers set out to develop a five-year plan with a focus on increasing the museum's earned income, which at the time of the initial engagement was at 30% of total revenue.
October 15, 2010
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Inspiring Innovation in the Silicon Valley Housing Market
ACT consultants worked closely with two Bay area nonprofits on how an equity-sharing fund to finance residential down payments could benefit both the public and private sector.
October 15, 2010
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Launching a New Urban Center for Outward Bound
Outward Bound approached the Alumni Consulting Team to help answer the question: What would it take to create a successful Outward Bound Urban Center in the Bay Area?
August 10, 2010
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Srinivasan's Career in Marketing Science Commemorated
Internationally known for his work on consumer choice and sales force compensation, Seenu Srinivasan is also revered as a teacher and mentor.
July 08, 2010
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Echoing Green Fellow Deepa Gangwani Elevates Waste Workers –– and the Environment –– in India
Together as One (TaO), a social enterprise that generates income opportunities for marginalized communities in India while providing communities with incentives to sort and segregate waste.
June 12, 2010
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2010 Graduation Speech by Jeffrey Skoll, MBA '95
Jeffrey Skoll, the first president of eBay, urges Stanford GSB graduates to define their dreams and chase them with rigor and authenticity.
June 01, 2010
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2010 South Africa Study Trip: Powerful Lessons
Students offer observations on their study trip over spring break to learn as much about education in South Africa as the nation itself.
May 01, 2010
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Stanford University Recognizes Alumni Consulting Team with Community Partnership Award
Stanford GSB Alumni Consulting Team received a Stanford University 2010 Community Partnership Award for service to more than 150 nonprofits in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
April 30, 2010
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Classmates Honor Social Innovator
Three friends made a gift to Stanford GSB on the occasion of their 20th reunion to recognize a classmate who has helped improve the lives of nearly two million people.
April 15, 2010
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Couple Honored for Extraordinary Volunteerism
MBA Class of 1982 members Julie Kaufman and her husband, Walter J. Niemasik Jr. received the Stanford Associates Award of Merit last spring, given by the Stanford Alumni Association.
April 15, 2010
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Gifts Help Transform Educational Experience at Stanford GSB
R. Michael Shanahan, AB ’60, MBA ’65, made the single largest gift to Stanford GSB for an endowed fellowship fund from a living donor to establish the R. Michael Shanahan Fellowship.
April 15, 2010
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Vidalakis Family Gives Back with Capital Gift
Nick Vidalakis, MBA ’55, Sloan ’60, PhD ’61, recently rallied his family foundation to make one of its largest gifts, this time to Stanford GSB’s new home, the Knight Management Center.
April 08, 2010
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MBA Class of 1980 Pools Funds and Knowledge to Fight Poverty
Project Redwood, a new venture philanthropy fund of Stanford GSB Class of 1980, has distributed $400,000 over the past 3 years to organizations that use entrepreneurial approaches to fight poverty.
March 01, 2010
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Jeff Skoll to Give Inaugural Guest Speaker Address at 2010 Graduation
Creating a new annual tradition, Staford GSB has named philanthropist and entrepreneur Jeff Skoll (MBA '95) as its first graduation guest speaker.
February 01, 2010
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Classmates Heap Praise on Rainwater
Richard Rainwater toasted as "the legendary financier of our generation" at GSB Alumni Association's 2010 Arbuckle Award gathering.
January 07, 2010
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Pulin Sanghvi Named Director of Career Management Center
Sanghvi, MBA '97, will lead the efforts of the center, which offers career counseling and placement services to students and alumni.
September 19, 2009
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J. Charitha Ratwatte Jr., MBA ’09: Reviving Heirloom Rice and Farmers’ Prospects in Sri Lanka
A recipient of an inaugural Social Innovation Fellowship creates Rural Returns to ease poverty through sales of high-end products in global markets.
August 01, 2009
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Five Stanford MBA Students Honored as 2010 Siebel Scholars
Students will receive a tuition grant of $35,000 from the program, established to recognize the most talented graduate students in business and science.
April 15, 2009
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Alumni Support Collaboration Lab in New Campus
The collaboration laboratory space will be named the NGP Collaboration Lab in recognition of the managing partners of NGP Energy Capital Management LLC.
April 15, 2009
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Class of 2009 Reaches 100% Participation
The MBA Class of 2009 joined the community of annual gift donors by achieving an unprecedented 100% participation in their class gift campaign.
April 15, 2009
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Professorship Reflects Lifelong Stanford Ties
The Thrive Foundation for Youth Professorship endowed chair was added to Stanford GSB, thanks to the generosity of Robert Eliot King, MBA ’60, and Dorothy J. King.
