The Institute’s Visiting Scholars and Practitioner Fellows Program brings distinguished academics and leaders to the GSB where they enrich the school’s intellectual community by sharing real-world perspectives and insights on the transformative issues shaping business and society.
Visiting Scholars are thought leaders who bring the latest advances in their fields to Stanford while supporting new academic research on issues at the intersection of business, government, and society.
Practitioner Fellows are accomplished leaders from business, government, and civil society who bring a wealth of experience to the classroom, mentor students, and contribute to the Institute’s broader convening and dialogue efforts.
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Sir Partha Dasgupta, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Winter 2025
Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics
Cambridge University
Professor Dasgupta’s research focuses on the Economics of Poverty and Nutrition, Environmental Economics, Economic Measurement, and the Economics of Knowledge.
As a Visiting Scholar, he co-chaired the Political Economics of Environmental Sustainability Conference with Professor Bård Harstad. He also took part in a fireside chat hosted at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Isabel Casillas Guzman, Visiting Practitioner Fellow, Winter 2025
Founder & President, Avenida Advisors
27th Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration
Isabel Casillas Guzman is an entrepreneur, government innovation leader, and economic policy expert who has made small business and entrepreneurial development her life’s work.
As a Visiting Fellow, she engaged with faculty and students and participated in classroom discussions related to the government’s role in the economy and society.
Hans Christensen, Visiting Scholar, Spring 2024
Chookaszian Family Professor of Accounting & David G. Booth Faculty Fellow
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Professor Christensen’s current research primarily focuses on the societal effect of regulation aimed at incentivizing socially responsible behavior.
As a Visiting Scholar, he attended academic seminars and engaged with the accounting area faculty and doctoral students of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Dror Etzion, Visiting Scholar, Winter 2024
Professor and Steven Grossman Endowed Chair in Sustainable Business
University of Vermont, Grossman School of Business
Professor Etzion’s research program focuses on “grand challenges”: the unyielding, intractable problems that characterize the Anthropocene.
His work suggests that managing for sustainability through local, open, emergent initiatives increases the recruitment of diverse stakeholders, fosters creativity, and yields impactful outcomes. As a Visiting Scholar, he co-chaired the Organizations and Environmental Sustainability Conference with Professor William Barnett.
Bryan Bollinger, Visiting Scholar, Spring 2023
Professor of Marketing & George A. Kellner Faculty Fellow
Academic Director of Doctoral Education
New York University Stern School of Business
Professor Bollinger’s research portfolio aims to understand the causal effects of policymakers’ decisions in sustainability domains and the interdependent reactions by consumers and firms.
As a Visiting Scholar, he attended academic seminars and engaged with the marketing area faculty and doctoral students of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Elke Weber, Visiting Scholar, Winter 2023
Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment
School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Professor Weber believes that psychological theory needs to interface with social problems in a two-way dialogue, proving itself with constructive solutions in real-world settings and being enriched and constrained by those settings.
As a Visiting Scholar, she was the Keynote Speaker at the Organizations and Environmental Sustainability Conference co-chaired by Professors William Barnett and Dror Etzion.
