Blog: Archive for the “Stanford University (Stanford Graduate School of Business)” Category

An article in the New York Times’ Sunday Business section this week looks at a novel option for entrepreneurs seeking to grow companies that may be too small for conventional private equity investors or venture capitalists. Ryan Caldbeck and Rory Eakin, former classmates at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, have attempted to meet the … Read More  

The Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) is well known for its intimacy, and the school’s small class size allows it to provide students with a unique program of individualized coaching. First-year students at the GSB are assigned a dedicated Faculty Advisor who helps them create a customized plan for fulfilling their General Management Foundations … Read More  

The Stanford Graduate School of Business has released its Class of 2014 profile, with a few changes of note. A total of 6,716 candidates applied to the MBA program (up slightly from 6,618 last year), with 398 starting this academic year. Women make up about the same percentage of students (35%) as last year (34%), but … Read More  

Thanks in part to a $105M gift from Nike founder and chairman Phil Knight (MBA ’62), the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) has constructed a new $350M campus in recent years. The 360,000 square foot campus of the Knight Management Center, which opened in April 2011, expanded the school’s existing campus footprint by 100,000 … Read More  

When you select an MBA program, you are not just choosing your learning environment, but are also committing to becoming part of a community. Each Thursday, we offer a window into life “beyond the MBA classroom” at a top business school. Founded by a Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) student in 1984,Challenge for Charity … Read More