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The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford Business School or Stanford GSB) is one of the professional schools of Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
, in Stanford
Stanford, California

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, California
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The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford Business School or Stanford GSB) is one of the professional schools of Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
, in Stanford
Stanford, California

Stanford is a census-designated place in Santa Clara County, California, California, United States. The population was 13,315 at the United States Census, 2000...
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
. It is one of the leading business schools in the world.

The Stanford Graduate School of Business offers a general management MBA degree and thus does not offer degrees in specialized areas such as finance or marketing, although it does offer certificate programs in public management and global management. The school also offers the Sloan Master's Program
Sloan Fellows

The Sloan Fellows program is a mid-career Masters' degree in General Management supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. It is targeted at experienced managers who have already demonstrated a significant degree of career success ....
, a full-time ten-month MS
Master of Science

A Master of Science is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in a large number of countries. The degree is typically studied for in the sciences and occasionally in the social sciences....
 in Management for accomplished mid-career executives and entrepreneurs, and a Ph.D.
Ph.D.

Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip...
 program. The school also offers a number of dual degrees jointly with other schools at Stanford University
Stanford University

Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
 including Education
Stanford University School of Education

The Stanford University School of Education, also known as SUSE, is the number one ranked School of Education in the United States. It was founded in 1891, and currently offers master's and doctoral degrees as well as joint degrees with various other schools at Stanford University....
, Engineering
Stanford University School of Engineering

Stanford University School of Engineering is one of the schools of Stanford University. The school has had eight dean ; the current is James D. Plummer....
, Law
Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located near Palo Alto, California, United States, in Silicon Valley. The Law School was established in 1893 when former POTUS Benjamin Harrison joined the faculty as the first professor of law....
 and Medicine.

Background

The school was founded in 1925. There are three Nobel Prize winners on the faculty, two recipients of the John Bates Clark Award, 15 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an organization dedicated to scholarship and the advancement of learning. It serves as a nationwide honor society for the United States....
, and three members of the National Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences may refer to:*National Academy of Sciences of Argentina*Armenian Academy of Sciences*National Academy of Sciences of Belarus...
. Its faculty members maintain several joint appointments with affiliated research centers, most notably with the Hoover Institution
Hoover Institution

The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a public policy think tank and library founded in 1919 by future U.S. president Herbert Hoover....
 on War, Revolution and Peace (also located on the Stanford campus). The GSB maintains very close links with the venture capital, finance and technology firms of nearby Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is the South Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States. The term originally referred to the region's large number of Integrated circuit innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all the high-tech businesses in the area; it is now generally used as a metonym for the high-tech s...
.

The school operates with an annual budget of $133 million, and is the second wealthiest business school in the nation with an endowment of $1,005.1 million (as of August 31, 2007), roughly tied with Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School is a business school in the United States. It is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University.Founded in 1908, Harvard Business School started with 59 students....
 in per capita endowment. There are 25,083 living alumni, including 17,871 alumni of the MBA program. Stanford Business School is renowned to have produced a remarkable number of successful business leaders and entrepreneurs, many among the world's wealthiest, from its relatively small alumni base.

In August 2006, the School announced what is believed to be the second largest gift ever to a business school - $105 million from Stanford alumnus Phil Knight, MBA '62, Founder and Chairman of Nike, Inc. The gift will go largely toward construction of a $275 million campus, to be called the Knight Management Center, for the Business School. When construction is completed, the Stanford Business School will comprise the Knight Management Center and the Schwab Residential Center (named after alumnus Charles R. Schwab, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of the Charles Schwab Corporation).

Rankings

Stanford's MBA program was ranked #1 in the 2009 U.S. News and World Report ranking, #3 in Financial Times
Financial Times

The Financial Times is a United Kingdom international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and is printed at 24 sites....
 and #6 in Business Week business school rankings in 2006. Forbes
Forbes

Forbes is an United States publishing and mass media company. Its flagship publication, Forbes magazine, is published bi-weekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune , which is also published bi-weekly, and Business Week....
 ranked Stanford Business School #2 in its fifth biennial ranking of business schools in 2007, up from #6 in 2005. The Economist magazine ranked Stanford #2 in its 2007 business school ranking. In its biennial report "Beyond Grey Pinstripes", the World Resources Institute and the Aspen Institute identified the Stanford Graduate School of Business as the leader among business schools that are incorporating academic content involving ethics, corporate social responsibility, and environmental sustainability into their curricula and activities. The ranking was based on an extensive survey in which schools were asked to describe cases, research, and course content that address these issues. The MBA program at Stanford also ranked 1st in the latest Los Mejores MBA Globales published by CNN Expansion
CNN Expansion

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 (2008).

Student profile

The Stanford GSB is the most selective business school in the U.S. It has maintained the highest ratio of "applicants to available seats" of any business school in the U.S. for the last decade. It has also had the lowest acceptance rates (typically <10%) of any major business school in the world. For the class which entered in 2007, approximately 6% of applicants were offered admission.

The school has approximately 360 students per year in its full-time two-year MBA program. It is relatively diverse compared to its peer institutions. The most recent entering class was approximately 40% female, 25% ethnic minorities and 39% international. Among these are Fulbright scholars
Fulbright Program

The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of Grant for international educational exchange for scholars, educators, graduate students and professionals, founded by United States Senator J....
 and Coro, Gardner, Rhodes
Rhodes Scholarship

The Rhodes Scholarship named after Cecil Rhodes is an international award for study at the University of Oxford and was the first large-scale programme of international scholarships....
, Rotary, and Truman fellows
Truman Scholarship

The Harry S. Truman Scholarship is a federal scholarship granted to U.S. college juniors for demonstrated leadership potential and a commitment to public service....
. Approximately 15% of the class entered the MBA program with other graduate or professional degrees; including medical doctors, lawyers, and Ph.Ds.

The students at the school have traditionally maintained a policy of grade non-disclosure whereby they do not release grades. Some annual academic distinctions do exist. Students graduating in the top ten percent of the class are designated "Arjay Miller Scholars". The top student receives the Henry Ford II award. The top 5 students during the first academic year are designated Siebel Scholars.

New curriculum

Schwab Gsb
In June 2006, the School announced a dramatic change to its curriculum model. The new model, dubbed "The Personalized MBA Education", has four focus points. First, it aims to offer each student a highly customized experience by offering broader menus of course topics and providing personal course-planning mentoring from Stanford Business School faculty advisors. Second, the new program attempts to deepen the school’s intellectual experience through several smaller, high-impact seminars focused on critical analytical thinking. Third, the new program will increase global business education through both new course options and requiring international experience from all students. Finally, the new program expands the schools focus on leadership and communication through new courses that examine students’ personal strengths in the topic. Overall, the school sees the flexible program as an important point of differentiation that leverages the school’s smaller relative size versus most other top MBA programs.

Organizational relationships

Stanford GSB has a number of relationships with other leading business schools. It offers a number of Executive Education programs jointly with Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School is a business school in the United States. It is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University.Founded in 1908, Harvard Business School started with 59 students....
. It also offers one of the three Sloan Fellows programs, coordinating with the others at the MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT Sloan School of Management

The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, in the United States....
 and the London Business School
London Business School

London Business School is a leading international business school and a constituent college of the University of London. It teaches postgraduate programmes in finance and management, including Master of Business Administration programmes, Sloan Fellowship Program for experienced business executives, Masters in Finance , Masters in Management...
. Recently, the school entered into exchange programs with Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University

Tsinghua University , is a university in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Tsinghua University was established in 1911, originally under the name ?Tsinghua Xuetang?....
 and Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

The Indian Institutes of Management Bangalore is one of India's premier management institutes. It was established in the year 1973. It is widely considered to be one of the toughest to get in MBA programs in the world....
.

Alumni Association

The Stanford Business School Alumni Association provides a wide range of opportunities, services and resources for their alumni, including local regional/chapter activities, special alumni events, continuing education programs, alumni career services, international conferences, reunion programs, Alumni/Student programs and password protected online services.

Prominent MBA and MA alumni

  • Stephen Adams
    Stephen Adams (business)

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    , Chairman and Founder, The Adams Companies, AGI
    Affinity Group Inc.

    Affinity Group is a provider of membership clubs, as well as subscription-based products, services and publications, targeted toward recreational vehicle and other outdoor enthusiasts in the United States....
    , Affinity Bank
  • Mukesh Ambani
    Mukesh Ambani

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    (dropped out), Billionaire, Chairman/Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited.
  • Herbert M. Allison
    Herbert M. Allison

    Herbert M. Allison, Jr. was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer of Fannie Mae in September 2008 by Director James Lockhart of Federal Housing Finance Agency, as conservator of Fannie Mae....
    , Chairman, President & CEO, TIAA-CREF
    TIAA-CREF

    TIAA-CREF is one of the largest financial services companies in the United States, with $398 billion in assets under management as of September 30, 2008....
  • Steve Ballmer
    Steve Ballmer

    Steven Anthony Ballmer is an United States businessman and has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft since January 2000. Ballmer is the second person after Roberto Goizueta to become a billionaire in U.S....
     (dropped out), Billionaire, CEO, Microsoft Corporation
  • Sid Bass
    Sid Bass

    Sid Richardson Bass is an United States investor and billionaire. He is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Business School. His father, Perry Richardson Bass , built an oil fortune with uncle, Sid W....
    , Investor and billionaire
  • Richard Rainwater
    Richard Rainwater

    Richard E. Rainwater is an United States investor and billionaire fund manager. With an estimated net worth of around $2.5 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the List of billionaires, and url=http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_The-Worlds-Billionaires_NameProper_33.html....
    , Investor and billionaire
  • Philip Arthur Fisher
    Philip Arthur Fisher

    Philip Arthur Fisher was a stock investor best known as the author of Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits , a guide to investing that has remained in print ever since it was first published in 1958....
    , "Growth Investing" Pioneer and Author
  • Riley Bechtel, Chairman & CEO, Bechtel Group
    Bechtel

    Bechtel Corporation is the largest engineering company in the Economy of the United States, ranking as the 7th-largest privately owned company in the U.S....
  • Stephen Bechtel, Jr.
    Stephen Bechtel, Jr.

    Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. is, with his son Riley Bechtel, co-owner of the Bechtel Corporation. He is the son of Stephen David Bechtel, Sr. and grandson of Warren A....
    , Chairman Emeritus and Director of Bechtel Group
    Bechtel

    Bechtel Corporation is the largest engineering company in the Economy of the United States, ranking as the 7th-largest privately owned company in the U.S....
  • Ben Bernanke
    Ben Bernanke

    Ben Shalom Bernanke is the Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States Federal Reserve. Bernanke succeeded Alan Greenspan on February 1, 2006....
    , Current Chairman, Federal Reserve & Former Faculty Member
  • Jeffrey Bewkes
    Jeffrey Bewkes

    Jeffrey Lawrence Bewkes is an American media executive. He has served as Chief executive officer of Time Warner since January 1 2008 and as President since December 2005....
    , President & COO, Time Warner
    Time Warner

    Time Warner Inc. is the world's third largest media and entertainment Conglomerate by market capitalization , headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City....
  • Rahul Bhandari
    Rahul Bhandari

    Rahul Bhandari is the Founding Managing Director of Paras Ventures LLC, an investment and consulting group for high-tech companies. He leverages over fifteen years of experience in venture development, M&A integration, and leading large-scale complex change programs to help companies succeed on a strategic and tactical basis....
    , Managing Director, Paras Ventures
  • John Browne, Chairman & CEO, BP
    BP

    BP plc , is the third largest global energy corporation, a multinational corporation oil company with headquarters in London. The company is among the largest private sector energy corporations in the world, and one of the six "supermajors" ....
     (formerly "British Petroleum"), Member of the House of Lords, knighted by the Queen
  • Brook Byers
    Brook Byers

    Brook Byers is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the brother of Stanford University Professor Tom Byers.He is currently on the Board of Directors of nine companies, most recently joining OptiMedica,CardioDX, Genomic Health Incorporated, Five Prime Therapeutics, Pacific Biosciences, Inc....
    , Venture Capitalist, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  • James C. Collins
    James C. Collins

    For the football player of the same name see Jim Collins .James C. "Jim" Collins, III is an United States of America business consultant, author, and lecturer on the subject of company sustainability and growth....
    , Best-selling author in leadership and management
  • Chip Conley
    Chip Conley

    Chip Conley is an United States hotelier, author, and speaker. Conley is the founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, which he began in 1987 at age 26....
    , Founder & CEO, Joie de Vivre
    Joie de vivre

    Joie de vivre is a term sometimes imported into English to express a cheerful enjoyment of life; an exultation of spirit. Joie de vivre, as one scholar has written,"can be a joy of conversation, joy of eating, joy of anything one might do? And joie de vivre may be seen as a joy of everything, a comprehensive joy, a philosophy...
  • Joseph "Joe" Coulombe
    Joe Coulombe

    Joe Coulombe, born 1930 in San Diego, California, is best known for being the founder and first CEO of Trader Joe's Market. He went to San Diego High School and entered Stanford University in 1947....
    , Founder, Trader Joe's
    Trader Joe's

    Trader Joe's is a private equity chain of specialty grocery stores headquartered in Monrovia, California. , Trader Joe's has a total of 317 stores....
  • James Coulter
    James Coulter

    James Coulter was a Head coach College football Coach of the University of Georgia Georgia Bulldogs football team during the 1909 season. A graduate of Brown University, Coulter had no head coaching experience before leading the Georgia team....
    , Founding Partner, Texas Pacific Group
    Texas Pacific Group

    TPG Capital is one of the largest private equity investment firms globally, focused on leveraged buyout, growth capital and leveraged recapitalization investments in distressed companies and turnaround situations....
  • Sir Howard Davies
    Howard Davies

    Howard Davies is the name of:* Howard Davies , Director of the London School of Economics, former British financial regulator* Howard Davies , English theatre director...
    , Director of the London School of Economics
    London School of Economics

    The London School of Economics and Political Science, more commonly referred to as The London School of Economics or LSE, is a specialist college of the University of London in London, England....
    , former Deputry Governor of the Bank of England
    Bank of England

    The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and is the model on which most modern, large central banks have been based. Since 1946 it has been a Nationalisation institution....
  • Tim Draper, Founder, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
    Draper Fisher Jurvetson

    Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California with affiliate offices in more than 30 cities around the world and over $4.5 billion in capital commitments....
    , Venture Capital
  • Ken Eldred
    Ken Eldred

    Ken Eldred is founder and Chief Executive Officer of the and Chairman of the Board of Advisors of ....
    , Founder, Inmac
    Inmac

    Inmac , which became a publicly-traded company, was founded in 1975 in Silicon Valley. The company was first listed on the NASDAQ in 1987 and later merged with MicroWarehouse in 1996....
  • Steve Ellis
    Steve Ellis

    Steve Ellis may refer to:*Steve Ellis *Steve Ellis *Steven Ellis *Steve Ellis ...
    , Worldwide Managing Director, Bain & Company
    Bain & Company

    Bain & Company is a management consulting firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts....
  • Alain Enthoven
    Alain Enthoven

    Alain C. Enthoven was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1965. From 1965 to 1969 he was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis....
    , American Health Economist
  • Richard Fairbank
    Richard Fairbank

    Richard Fairbank founded Capital One with Nigel Morris in 1988, and is currently the Chairman and CEO. He also serves on the board of directors of MasterCard, and is the Chairman of MasterCard International's U.S....
    , Co-Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Capital One
    Capital One

    COF, or Capital One Financial Corp. is a McLean, Virginia-based U.S. bank holding company specializing in credit cards, mortgage, auto loans, banking, and Savings account products....
  • Robert Fisher
    Robert Fisher

    Robert Fisher may refer to:* Robert Fisher , Canadian television and radio journalist* Robert J. Fisher, chairman of GAP* Robert M. Fisher, abstract artist...
    , Chairman, Gap, Inc.
  • Jean Pierre Garnier, CEO, GlaxoSmithKline
    GlaxoSmithKline

    GlaxoSmithKline plc is a United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical industry, biological, and healthcare company. GSK is the world's second largest pharmaceutical company and a research-based company with a wide portfolio of pharmaceutical products covering anti-infectives, central nervous system, respiratory, gastro-intestinal/metabolic,...
  • Dana Gioia
    Dana Gioia

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    , Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
    National Endowment for the Arts

    The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded and donation assisted program that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence....
  • Seth Godin
    Seth Godin

    Seth Godin is an United States author of business books and a popular speaker with appearances at Google, TED and a number of charities. Godin popularized the topic of permission marketing....
    , Popular Business Author and Theorist
  • Robert E. Grady, Chairman, National Venture Capital Association
    National Venture Capital Association

    The National Venture Capital Association is the leading trade association representing the venture capital industry in the United States The NVCA represents the venture industry in public policy debates in Washington, DC, and promotes high professional standards, professional development, and interaction amongst member firms....
  • Jeff Jordan (business executive), President, PayPal
    PayPal

    PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. PayPal serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as Cheque and money orders....
  • John Kennedy (dropped out), United States President
  • Vinod Khosla
    Vinod Khosla

    Vinod Khosla is a neo-conservative Indian-American venture capitalist. He is an influential personality in Silicon Valley. He was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986....
    , Billionaire, Co-Founder, Sun Microsystems
    Sun Microsystems

    Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a multinational corporation vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services, founded on February 24, 1982....
    , and Founder, Kosla Ventures. Venture Capitalist, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
    Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

    Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is a venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley. The firm was named after its four founding partners: Eugene Kleiner , Tom Perkins , Frank J....
  • Phil Knight
    Phil Knight

    Philip Hampson Knight is an United States billionaire, and the co-founder and Chairman of Nike, Inc.. He resigned as the company's chief executive officer in 2004, while retaining the position of chairman of the board....
    , Billionaire. President, CEO and Founder, Nike, Inc.
    Nike, Inc.

    Nike, Inc. is a major Public company sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, near the Portland metropolitan area of Oregon....
  • Jim Kolbe
    Jim Kolbe

    James Thomas "Jim" Kolbe is a former United States Republican Party member of the United States House of Representatives from Arizona, serving from 1985 to 2007....
    , U.S. Congressman (R-AZ)
  • Omid Kordestani
    Omid Kordestani

    Omid Kordestani is the Senior Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Field Operations of Google....
    , Billionaire. SVP of Global Sales and Business Development, Google, Inc.
  • Richard Kovacevich
    Richard Kovacevich

    Richard M. "Dick" Kovacevich is the chairman of the board of directors of Wells Fargo & Company.A native of Tacoma, Washington, he grew up in Enumclaw, Washington....
    , Chairman and CEO, Wells Fargo
    Wells Fargo

    Wells Fargo & Co. is a diversified financial services company with operations around the world. Wells Fargo is the 4th largest bank in the US by assets and the second largest bank by market cap....
  • Gary Kremen
    Gary Kremen

    Gary Alan Kremen is an entrepreneur who founded personals site match.com, and registered several premiere domain names in the early days of the internet, including sex.com, jobs.com, housing.com, and autos.com....
    , Founder Match.com
    Match.com

    Match.com is an online dating service. The company reportedly has more than 15 million members and Web sites serving 37 countries in more than 12 different languages....
     and Sex.com
    Sex.com

    The Internet domain name sex.com is a web portal owned by Escom LLC. It was the focus of one of the most publicized legal actions about ownership of domain names....
     and well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur
  • Howard Leach, U.S. Ambassador
    Ambassador

    An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents their country. They are usually accredited to a Sovereignty or government, or to an international organization, to serve as the official representative of their country....
     to France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  • David Lempert
    David Lempert

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    , Social entrepreneur
  • Steve Luczo, CEO of Seagate Technology
    Seagate Technology

    Seagate is the world's largest manufacturer of Hard disk drive and storage solutions. The company was founded in 1979 and is based in Scotts Valley, California, California....
  • Edmund Wattis Littlefield
    Edmund Wattis Littlefield

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    , CEO of Utah Construction Company
    Utah Construction Company

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  • Sir Deryck Maughan
    Deryck Maughan

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    , former Chairman and CEO of Salomon Brothers
    Salomon Brothers

    Salomon Brothers was a Wall Street investment bank. Founded in 1910, it remained a partnership until the early 1980s, when it was acquired by the commodity trading firm then known as Phibro Corporation....
  • John McCoy
    John McCoy

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    , Chairman and CEO, Banc One
  • Henry A. McKinnell, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc.
  • Scott McNealy
    Scott McNealy

    Scott McNealy is the Chairman of Sun Microsystems, the computer technology company he co-founded in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim....
    , Co-founder, Chairman, & former CEO, Sun Microsystems
    Sun Microsystems

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  • Alex Michel
    Alex Michel

    Alex Michel is an United States businessman, producer, and television personality, best known for the role in The Bachelor during its premiere season in 2002....
    , American businessman, producer, and television personality, best known for the role in The Bachelor.
  • John P. Morgridge, Chairman, Cisco Systems
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    , Chairman, The Nature Conservancy
    The Nature Conservancy

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  • George Needham
    George Needham

    George Wright Needham was an England football player who played professionally for clubs including Derby County F.C., Northampton Town F.C., and Gillingham F.C., for whom he made over 120 Football League appearances....
    , Founder, Chairman & CEO, Needham & Company
  • Jacqueline Novogratz
    Jacqueline Novogratz

    Jacqueline Novogratz is founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty....
    , Founder and CEO, Acumen Fund
  • Tom Peters
    Tom Peters

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    , Best-selling author and management guru
  • Donald Peterson, Former Chairman & CEO, Ford Motor Company
    Ford Motor Company

    The Ford Motor Company is an United States multinational corporation and the world's List of automobile manufacturers#World Motor Vehicle Production by Manufacturer based on worldwide vehicle sales, following Toyota, General Motors, and Volkswagen Group....
  • Penny Pritzker
    Penny Pritzker

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    , Billionaire, & National Finance Chair - Obama for American. Heir, Hyatt Hotel
  • Roy L. Raymond
    Roy Raymond (businessman)

    Roy Raymond was an United States businessman who started the Victoria's Secret lingerie retail store.Raymond, an alumnus of Tufts University and The Stanford Graduate School of Business, opened the first Victoria's Secret store at the Stanford Shopping Center after feeling embarrassed trying to purchase lingerie for his wife in public and...
    , Serial Entrepreneur, Founder, Victoria's Secret
    Victoria's Secret

    Victoria's Secret is an United States retailer of women's wear, lingerie and beauty products. It is the largest a segment of publicly traded Limited Brands with sales surpassing United States dollar$5 billion and an Earnings before interest and taxes of $1 billion in 2006....
    , Xandria, others
  • Richard Rainwater
    Richard Rainwater

    Richard E. Rainwater is an United States investor and billionaire fund manager. With an estimated net worth of around $2.5 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the List of billionaires, and url=http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_The-Worlds-Billionaires_NameProper_33.html....
    , Investor and billionaire
  • Dionisio Romero Seminario, Peruvian businessman, Chairman & CEO Credicorp
  • Charles R. Schwab
    Charles R. Schwab

    Charles Robert Schwab, Jr. is the founder and chief executive officer of the Charles Schwab Corporation.On the 2008 Forbes 400 list, Schwab is listed as the 55th richest person in the United States with a fortune of approximately United States dollar6.2 billion....
    , Chairman & CEO, Charles Schwab Corporation
  • Robert Scott
    Robert Scott

    Robert, 'Bob or Bobby Scott may refer to:*Robert Wellbeloved Scott , British Liberal Member of Parliament for Walsall*Robert Scott , co-editor with Henry George Liddell of the Greek dictionary A Greek-English Lexicon...
    , Retired President & COO, Morgan Stanley
    Morgan Stanley

    Morgan Stanley is a global financial services provider headquartered in New York City, New York, United States. It serves a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals....
  • Frank Shrontz
    Frank Shrontz

    Frank Anderson Shrontz is a former chief executive officer and chairman of the Boeing.The son of a sporting goods merchant, Shrontz graduated from Boise High School in 1949 and the University of Idaho in 1954 with a Bachelor of Laws degree, where he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternities and sororities....
    , Former Chairman and CEO, Boeing
    Boeing

    The Boeing Company is a major aerospace and defense corporation, originally founded by William Edward Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997....
  • Ellen Siminoff
    Ellen Siminoff

    Ellen Siminoff was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Siminoff is a prominent Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor, living in Los Altos Hills, California....
    , CEO, Shmoop, Chairman, Efficient Frontier, and founding executive of Yahoo!
    Yahoo!

    Yahoo! Inc. is an United States public company corporation with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, , and provides Internet services worldwide....
  • Jeffrey Skoll
    Jeffrey Skoll

    Jeffrey Skoll is a Canadian born businessman who lives in Los Angeles, California. He was the second employee and first president of internet auction firm eBay, and used the wealth this gave him to become a philanthropist and to found the independent movie production company Participant Productions....
    , Billionaire, Former President, eBay
    EBay

    eBay Inc. is an United States Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell goods and services worldwide....
    , and CEO, Participant Productions
    Participant Productions

    Participant Media is an United States production company, whose initial movies have gained critical acclaim and major film awards. The movies are typically based on current events and topical subjects, and presented in such a way to inspire and compel social change....
  • Kim Smith
    Kim Smith

    Kimberly Katherine "Kim" Smith is an American model /actress....
    , Founder, New Schools Venture Fund
  • Steven L. Smith, Astronaut
  • Tom Steyer, investor, Founder, Farallon Capital Management
  • Carl W. Stern, Chairman, Boston Consulting Group
    Boston Consulting Group

    The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm, founded by Bruce Henderson in 1963. It has 66 offices in 38 countries, and its current CEO is Hans-Paul B?rkner....
  • Steve Westly
    Steve Westly

    Steven Paul Westly is an United States businessman and politician. He was the California State Controller of California from 2003 to 2007 and was one of the top candidates in the Democratic Party primary for Governor of California in the California gubernatorial election, 2006....
    , Former CEO, eBay
    EBay

    eBay Inc. is an United States Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell goods and services worldwide....
    , California State Controller
    California State Controller

    The State Controller is the Chief Financial Officer of the State of California in the United States. The post has broader responsibilities and authority than the California State Treasurer....
  • Miles D. White
    Miles D. White

    Miles D. White is an United States businessman. He is currently chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Abbott Laboratories.White joined Abbott in 1984, serving there in management positions including senior vice president of diagnostic operations and executive vice president....
    , Chairman & CEO, Abbott Laboratories
    Abbott Laboratories

    Abbott Laboratories is a diversified Pharmacology health care company. It has 68,000 employees and operates in 130 countries. The corporate headquarters are in Abbott Park, Illinois, located near North Chicago, Illinois....
  • Lorenzo Zambrano
    Lorenzo Zambrano

    Lorenzo H. Zambrano Trevi?o is a Mexican businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of Cemex, one of the largest cement companies in the world....
    , Billionaire, Chairman & CEO, Cemex
    Cemex

    Cemex S.A. de C.V. is the world's largest building materials supplier and third largest cement producer. Founded in Mexico in 1906, the company is based in Monterrey, Mexico and has operations extending around the world, including production facilities in 50 countries in North America, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa....
  • David C. Korten, Co-founder and Board Chair, Positive Futures Network
  • Sterling Brinkley
    Sterling Brinkley

    Sterling B. Brinkley Jr is currently the chairman of EZCorp. At 24, Brinkley was given a lifetime achievement award from the United States Department of Labor for his work with department....
    , Chairman of EZCORP, former Managing Director at Lehman Brothers
    Lehman Brothers

    Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial services corporation that, until declaring bankruptcy in 2008, did business in investment banking, Stock and Bond sales, market research and stock trading, investment management, private equity, and private banking....


Prominent PhD Program alumni

  • Susan Athey
    Susan Athey

    Susan Carleton Athey is an United States economist. She is currently Professor of Economics at Harvard University and the first female winner of the John Bates Clark Medal....
    , Professor, Harvard University
    Harvard University

    Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
  • Robert S. Gibbons, Professor, M.I.T.
  • Bengt R. Holmström
    Bengt R. Holmström

    Bengt Robert Holmstr?m is the Paul Samuelson Professor of Economics at M.I.T. He is a Finland and belongs to the Finland-Swedes.Holmstr?m received his B.S....
    , Professor, M.I.T.
  • Matthew O. Jackson, Professor, Stanford University
    Stanford University

    Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
     Economics Department
  • Paul Milgrom
    Paul Milgrom

    Paul Robert Milgrom is an American economist. He is currently the Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, a position he has held since 1987....
    , Professor, Stanford University
    Stanford University

    Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private university research university located in Stanford, California, California, United States....
     Economics Department


See also

  • List of United States business school rankings
  • List of business schools in the United States
    List of business schools in the United States

    This is a partial list of business schools in the United States. Business schools are listed in alphabetical order by state, then name. Schools named after people are alphabetized by last name....


External links

  • from the main Stanford University website
  • from bluwiki.com