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Stanford GSB

Stanford GSB Logo.
Stanford GSB Logo.



Mission To create ideas that deepen and enhance our understanding of management and to develop innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who change the world
Established 1925
Official name Stanford Graduate School of Business
University Stanford University
School type Private
Endowment $835 million
Dean Robert L. Joss
Location Stanford, CA, USA
Enrollment 914 (all graduate)
Stanford Seal

The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford Business School or Stanford GSB) is one of the professional schools of Stanford University, in Stanford, California. It is one of the leading business schools in the United States.

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 Program, a one-year MS in Management for accomplished mid-career executives, and a Ph.D. program. The school also offers a number of dual degrees jointly with other schools at Stanford University including Education, Engineering, Law and Medicine.

Background

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Aerial view of the Graduate School of Business.

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, and three members of the National Academy of Sciences. Its faculty members maintain several joint appointments with affiliated research centers, most notably with the Hoover Institution 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.

The school operates with an annual budget of $110 million, and is the second wealthiest business school in the nation with an endowment of $835.3 million (as of August 31, 2006), roughly tied with Harvard Business School in per capita endowment. There are 23,759 total alumni, including 15,485 alumni of the MBA program.

In August 2006, the School announced what is believed to be the 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

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Stanford GSB logo

Stanford Business School is widely regarded as one of the premier schools of business in the world[citation needed] . A large part of its reputation can be attributed to the scope of the school's research endeavors, its role in the development of Silicon Valley's leading businesses, and the prominence of its alumni in many leading ventures. Stanford's MBA program ranks #2 by U.S. News and World Report, #3 by Financial Times and #6 in Business Week business school rankings in 2006. In addition, a poll by the Wall Street Journal ranked Stanford MBA program #18 in 2006 list of U.S. business schools. Forbes ranked Stanford Business School #6 in its fourth biennial ranking of business schools in 2005, up from #7 in 2003. The Economist magazine ranked Stanford #4 in the 2005 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.

Admissions Statistics and Student Profile

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Aerial view of the Main Quad.

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 2005, approximately 8% of applicants were offered admission.

The school has approximately 370 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 32% female, 25% ethnic minorities and 39% international. Among these are Fulbright scholars and Coro, Gardner, Rhodes, Rotary, and Truman fellows. Approximately 10% 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.

New Curriculum

Schwab Residential Center, on campus residence for first year Sloan, PhD, and MBA candidates.

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

Quad interior.

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. It also offers one of the three Sloan Fellows programs, coordinating with the others at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the London Business School. Recently, the school entered into an exchange program with Tsinghua University.

Prominent alumni and faculty

See also

References

  1. ^ Leonhardt, David (2000) "California Dreamin'". The New York Times, June 18, 2000 p. BU1. (HBS/Stanford rivalry analyzed)
  2. ^ Nike Founder Phil Knight to Give $105 Million to Stanford Business School: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/knight_gift.shtml
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