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

The Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) has tweaked its essay questions and word limits this year, moving from an 1,800 word count across four essays to a 1,600 word count across three. Some quick math will reveal that you have more words per essay now—maybe the admissions committee felt it was not getting the … 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. At the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), Small Group Dinners, which the school sponsors, … 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  

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. 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 square feet. The … Read More  

Dorothy and Robert King (MBA ’60) have donated $150 million to Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business (GSB), the largest gift in the school’s history, to start the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SIIDE or “SEED”). The idea for the institute came from the homestays that the Kings have offered to the GSB’s international … Read More