Highlights in the Graduate School of Business

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Knight Management Center

The new home for the Graduate School of Business supports the school’s new curriculum, deepens multidisciplinary partnerships throughout the university, and leverages the school’s collaborative culture to create transformational educational experiences. With its eight buildings and location across from the Schwab Residential Center, the Knight Management Center fosters an integrated living and learning environment, blends indoor and outdoor spaces designed for interaction, demonstrates leadership in environmental sustainability, and offers venues that engage the broader community.

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Financial Aid: Investing in Student Excellence

“My mother raised my brother and me on less than $12,000 a year. Through the GSB, I have really been able to pursue my dream in a way I wouldn’t have been able to otherwise.”
Edward Castaño, MBA/MS
(Environment and Resources) ’11

Through the generosity of fellowship donors, GSB students are transforming their dreams into reality. Attracting the best and brightest students from around the world—regardless of their financial circumstances—shapes our success as a community of excellence.

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<strong>James Patell, Herbert Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management; 2011–12 Katherine and David deWilde Faculty Fellow</strong><br /> Jim Patell inspires students to combine engineering, design, and business skills to address challenges faced by the world's poor. His course <em>Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability</em> brings together multidisciplinary teams to create low-cost solutions such as a baby warmer for rural areas; a solar-powered lamp; and technologies for water collection, storage, and irrigation. Course breakthroughs have inspired his involvement in the new Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies.

Faculty: Cultivating Collaborations

James Patell, Herbert Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management; 2011–12 Katherine and David deWilde Faculty Fellow
Jim Patell inspires students to combine engineering, design, and business skills to address challenges faced by the world's poor. His course Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability brings together multidisciplinary teams to create low-cost solutions such as a baby warmer for rural areas; a solar-powered lamp; and technologies for water collection, storage, and irrigation. Course breakthroughs have inspired his involvement in the new Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies.

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Centers at the GSB are at the heart of integrating curricular innovations, student programs, and faculty research. For example, the redesigned MBA curriculum includes a “global experience” requirement. Alongside faculty, students immerse themselves in a region of the world that is unfamiliar—whether on a service learning trip through the Center for Social Innovation or a study trip, exchange, or internship through the Center for Global Business and the Economy.

Centers: Transforming the Learning Experience

Centers at the GSB are at the heart of integrating curricular innovations, student programs, and faculty research. For example, the redesigned MBA curriculum includes a “global experience” requirement. Alongside faculty, students immerse themselves in a region of the world that is unfamiliar—whether on a service learning trip through the Center for Social Innovation or a study trip, exchange, or internship through the Center for Global Business and the Economy.

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SEED: Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies

This new multidisciplinary institute housed at the GSB will stimulate, develop, and disseminate research and innovations that enable entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders to alleviate poverty in developing economies. SEED’s work is based on the belief that a critical route for economic growth is through the creation of entrepreneurial ventures, by scaling existing enterprises, and by strengthening management capacity.

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Annual Giving: Curricular Innovation

As a key priority within The Stanford Challenge, annual giving reflects the collective generosity of alumni and friends. We are grateful for your support in developing leaders, ideas, and resources as we work to Change Lives, Change Organizations, Change the World. Annual giving provides unrestricted funds to power the innovation that keeps the GSB at the leading edge of management education. Thank you to all who contribute to the collective support that makes so many of the school’s life-changing experiences and opportunities possible.

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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

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Five years ago, the university embarked on an unprecedented campaign to address pressing challenges that we face on a global scale. As we celebrate the success of The Stanford Challenge, I am awed by the spirit and generosity of our alumni and friends at the Graduate School of Business. To honor your investment in the school’s ambitious vision to reinvent management education, we reiterate our pledge to change lives, change organizations, and change the world.

I hope you are as inspired as I am by how your contributions are enabling faculty excellence, life-changing student fellowships, new and enhanced programs and centers, curricular innovations, and much more. Our magnificent new home—the new Knight Management Center—is now open for all. It was designed to enhance our curriculum, deepen multidisciplinary partnerships throughout Stanford, and leverage our community for impact. While it is early, there is no doubt that this incredible facility is already helping to further our aspirations.

The cornerstone of the Knight Management Center captures the essence of the GSB: “Dedicated to the things that haven’t happened yet and the people who are about to dream them up.”

By designing learning that is transformative, experiential, and personalized, faculty are preparing students for principled leadership in an increasingly complex global society. Our environmentally sustainable facilities are the embodiment of teaching and living responsibly. Students and faculty are inventing the future in front of our eyes and pursuing their dreams. Further, our collaborations throughout the university and beyond enable those ideas to extend well beyond our physical walls.

Our impact as a school can be measured by our strengthened capacity to foster innovative faculty research, attract the best scholars and students, encourage collaboration through multidisciplinary programs and centers, create an environment that reinforces our pioneering spirit, and continually engage our community to achieve impact in the world. On behalf of our students, faculty, and the global community of leaders who are influenced by the knowledge and opportunity that the GSB creates, I am deeply grateful to all of you who stepped up to The Stanford Challenge with your investment of time and resources. Congratulations and thank you!

Sincerely,

Garth Saloner, AM ’81, MS ’82, PhD ’82
Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean

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