GSB at 100

A 100th birthday is an occasion to celebrate. On October 10, more than 3,200 alumni, students, faculty, and staff gathered on campus for Stanford Graduate School of Business’ s Centennial Day.   “The next century of business leadership begins here, with us, together,” Sarah A. Soule, the Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean and the Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior, told the crowd...

“Learning here isn’t just about ideas,” says host Kevin Cool. “It’s about what those ideas make possible.”   It’s an ethos that’s present in every class at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Curious students, devoted faculty, and a community built on connection and purpose make Stanford GSB a place where students learn how to think, learn, and lead.     On this episode...

  A sense of shared purpose unites the staff of Stanford Graduate School of Business “If you just can change a little bit of the world, that’s all you really need to do,” says Nancy Gross, an operations manager in the MBA and MSx programs. “And I just feel that every day here.” Staff also happen to have a lot of great stories, including how our motto — change lives, change organizations, chan...

In 1925, Herbert Hoover, a Stanford alum and future U.S. president, had an idea. “A graduate School of Business Administration is urgently needed upon the Pacific Coast,” he wrote.  One hundred years later, what has Stanford Graduate School of Business accomplished, and what might its future hold? Listen in as professors reflect on founding principles, frontier technologies, and the magic tha...

Created especially for Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Centennial, GSB at 100 presents a scrapbook of memories, ideas, and breakthroughs as the GSB celebrates its first century and looks around the corner to what the next hundred years may hold.  You’ll hear insights from scholars and leaders, visit the archives to explore how the GSB came to be, and smile at a story about dancing in t...