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Career Resources

One year in our accelerated master’s in management program provides an opportunity to reflect, refine, and expand your skills—creating the potential for a truly transformational experience.

The MSx Program offers more than rigorous academics. It includes co-curricular activities, coaching, and networking events to help you reach your personal and career goals. Stanford GSB can help you build your career in the following ways:

  • Strengthen Your Leadership Skills: Consider classes on leadership and soft skills, volunteer in leadership roles, participate in executive coaching.
  • Broaden Your Network: Join career clubs, participate in events, meet professors, connect with classmates and alumni, get involved with centers and institutes.
  • Deepen Your Skill Set: Choose classes that align with your plans and interests, do research, explore courses outside of Stanford GSB.
  • Expose Yourself to New Perspectives: Participate fully in life on and off campus, take classes in areas new to you, engage with classmates from around the world.

MSx Alumni Stories on Career & Personal Growth

Anson Liang
MSx Class of 2024

"My time at the GSB was transformative, providing me with the strategic insights and leadership skills necessary to take my IPOed company to the next level. Through focused learning on strategic investment and acquisitions, I gained a deep understanding of how to drive growth and value in a competitive landscape. This experience has been invaluable in shaping a more ambitious and successful trajectory for my company."

The MSx Career Education Experience

You will have dedicated support from the Career Management Center (CMC). Career advisors and coaches will help you explore new pathways to advance your career, launch a new venture, or increase your impact personally and professionally.

By stepping away from your work to immerse yourself in a vibrant, stimulating, and challenging learning environment, you will:

  • Grow in new and unexpected ways: take risks, fail, learn, and iterate to succeed.
  • Extrapolate lessons from your career and leverage those takeaways to be more effective.
  • Interlace your peers’ experiences with lessons of Stanford GSB faculty, lecturers, and world-renowned guest speakers to deepen your learning.
  • Dedicate time to learn new skills, explore new topics, and gain insights that are relevant in today’s economy.

The MSx Program provides numerous resources and guidance to help you achieve your career goals

  • Mid-Career Expertise: The CMC has a dedicated team for the unique needs of MSx students.
  • MSx-Specific Curriculum: We offer Career Education programs and workshops tailored to mid-career professionals and peer learning.
  • Access to the CMC: Access to the full range of CMC resources includes dozens of workshops, career advisors, and online tools available 24/7.
  • Networking: Special networking events with MSx alumni are open only to MSx students.
  • Canvas Course: Canvas course platform brings the curriculum together, providing a private and dedicated space to address mid-career needs.

Hear From Our Community

Kemi Christina Abdul
MS '25

"Stanford GSB’s position at the nexus of academia and Silicon Valley offers the ideal platform to merge my passions for infrastructure investing, climate-tech innovation, and leadership. It provides a unique opportunity to advance progressive solutions with global impact."

Nan Li
MS '24

"The GSB community amazed me with its supportive, dependable, and enjoyable atmosphere. At the GSB, I had the opportunity to meet and get to know many fascinating individuals from diverse backgrounds and learn their stories. This is a place where you can find mentors, business partners, and lifelong friends."

Yvonne Li
MS '24

"My career before GSB led me down a focused path with deep expertise, while the MSx Program widened my perspective and opened doors to even more paths."

Cadu Souza
MS '24

"The [MSx] journey has given me the ability to launch a business in any corner of the globe, supported by an invaluable network and lifelong friends who share a vision of making a difference."