In this ongoing series for Stanford Business magazine, we bring you inside the classroom to experience a memorable Stanford GSB course.
School Stories & News Opensearch
April 23, 2026
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Back to Class: Understanding AI Technology for Business Problems
Learning how to translate business objectives into the language of AI
August 19, 2025
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Back to Class: Investment Management and Entrepreneurial Finance
Jack McDonald created a master class on investing that’s still paying dividends nearly 60 years later.
April 24, 2025
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Back to Class: Global Business, Religion, and National Culture
A world tour of the spiritual undercurrents beneath the global economy
September 27, 2024
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Back to Class: Managing Risk and Reputation in a Complex World
How to navigate bad publicity, corrupt governments — and the water cup of shame.
April 22, 2024
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Back to Class: Pathfinder
A new program opens Stanford GSB to undergraduates for the first time.
September 25, 2023
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Back to Class: Organizational Behavior
To make good decisions, sometimes you need to override your brain’s autopilot.
March 10, 2023
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Back to Class: Data and Decisions
A core course for first-year MBA students takes the mystery out of regression analysis.
June 02, 2022
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Back to Class: Creativity Workout
This Stanford Executive Program course used virtual reality to help business leaders embrace an “improviser’s mindset.”
November 04, 2021
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Back to Class: Managing Groups and Teams
Squad game: New MBA students get a crash course in decision-making under pressure.
September 03, 2021
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Back to Class: The Paths to Power
The basic lessons of this perennially popular class are simple. Putting them into practice is not.
March 31, 2021
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Back to Class: Corporations, Finance, and Governance in the Global Economy
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.”
January 15, 2021
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Back to Class: I’m Just a Bill
Pretending to be lawmakers, students hone negotiating skills that work in the boardroom as well as the back room.
July 09, 2020
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Back to Class: Civic Workshop
A new course paired teams of students to work remotely with different organizations supporting coronavirus relief efforts.
January 13, 2020
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Back to Class: The Industrialist’s Dilemma
This Stanford GSB course attracts CEOs from some of the world’s biggest corporations, who share how they’re navigating — or creating — digital disruption.
