Graduate School of Business

BJ Fogg, Director of Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, dives into a discussion on the topic of behavior change at the individual level and the steps essential for building new habits. He was the first of three speakers on this subject. (May 18, 2011)

Rob Chess moderates a panel discussion with some of Northern California's leaders in biotechnology. They dive into the ways that technology can drastically improve and increase the efficiency of healthcare. (May 11, 2011)

Stefanos Zenios, professor and director of the GSB's Program in Healthcare Innovation, leads an interactive panel discussion centered on raising capital for early-stage healthcare innovations. (May 11, 2011)

A panel of industry experts discusses the growing trend of information sharing and what the potential is for personalization in the future of the internet. (March 2, 2011)

Keynote Speaker Jim Shelton, the US Department of Education's Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement discusses the responsibility of business and education leaders to improve teaching for American children. (March 22, 2011)

Bret Clayton from global mining conglomerate Rio Tinto, discusses the issues that have been faced due to the stock market crash of 2008 and what it meant for the company. (November 2010)

Aaron Beam, co-founder and former CEO of HealthSouth, discusses the factors that led to the meltdown of his company. He focuses on some of the detrimental ethical practices that led to this failure. (November 19, 2010)

Ron Conway discusses his investment history in Silicon Valley. Conway has invested in more than 500 startups and gives great advice at picking companies that could be big winners. (January 18, 2011)

David Dodson leads a panel discussion of three active search fund investors in exploring recent trends in the search fund community; looking at how investment decisions are made, and what investors look for in a search fund entrepreneur. (October 7, 2010)

Chief Executive Officer of Siemens, Peter Loscher, gives a discussion on executive management and leadership during crisis times. He describes what it means to be a good leader in hard times and gives advice about how to best manage a team. (November 2, 2010)

As CEO of AB InBev, the leading global brewer and one of the world's top five consumer companies, Carlos Brito shares his perspective on leading a large organization and stressed hiring the right people. (November 4, 2010)

Dave Blakely presents a set of principles for successful innovation regardless of an organization's size, type or location. The heart of any innovation agenda is a carefully chosen interdisciplinary team. (March 2, 2011)

Joe Kennedy, CEO of Pandora Media, discusses how he took an idea and turned it into one of the most popular media outlets in the world. (March 2, 2011)

Steve Blank, the author of "Four Steps to the Epiphany" and a leading advocate for the customer development model of entrepreneurship, focuses on the new opportunities and challenges. (March 29, 2011)

John Paul DeJoria gives a presentation about his career and how he turned some of his ideas into a couple of the most successful companies in the world. He is the founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems and The Patron Spirits Company. (March 2, 2011)

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Thomas Barry discusses his experience with the African market and the status of investing and private equity. He discusses what the roles of the public and private sectors in Africa are today and will be in the future. (January 29, 2011)

Malcom Goeschl gives a presentation on immigration and how it affects entrepreneurs with start-ups in mind. He talks about how people must be take everything into account -- including immigration policies -- when starting their own business. (December 17, 2009)

Nick Bloom discusses an experiment he performed with several other Stanford faculty members to ascertain the impact of management on production, specifically in fabric factories in India. (September 2010)

Various students and faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business talk about how the GSB prepares its students to change the world in meaningful ways after they graduate. (March 3, 2011)

Various students and faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business discuss how the GSB teaches them ways to innovate business strategies as well as gain the firsthand experiences to implement these changes. (March 3, 2011)

Various students and faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business talk about how the GSB helps them to gain a global perspective and attain first-hand experiences of many challenges. (March 3, 2011)

Various students and faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business discuss the mantra of the GSB and how they believe it is enacted through the opportunities given to the students. (March 3, 2011)

Various Stanford faculty members discuss the executive education program that is part of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. (March 3, 2011)

A panel of business leaders and entrepreneurs discuss the virtues they look for in a search funder. They discuss the skill set required and the management and leadership skills needed to set a search funder apart from the crowd. (October 15, 2009)

Bill Browder, founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, discusses his surprising story of the rise and fall of the Russian investment fund. (October 09, 2009)

Prospective students gathered at Stanford to learn how their degree in Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, or the Social or Natural Sciences could lead to an academic career in business. (October 13, 2009)

Panelists discuss the idea of acquiring a small business as a route to entrepreneurship in a conversation moderated by Peter Kelly. (October 5, 2009)

Panelists Rafeal Somoza (MBA '96), Robert Befidi, Jim Southern, and Rich Kelley (MBA '89) discuss how to conduct a search to maximize the probability of finding and closing an attractive acquisition. (October 12, 2009)

A panel offers a tribute to George "Lee" Leland Bach, the founding dean of Carnegie Mellon University Business School, one of the faculty members who brought the Stanford Graduate School of Business to prominence. (May 29, 2009)

James G. March, Profesor Emeritus at Stanford University, offers promotion thoughts on his video about using Don Quixote's life and work as a basis for learning lessons of leadership. (Fall 2003)

In his 40 years with Chevron, O'Reilly's biggest leadership challenge is communicating the fundamentals of the oil business, that energy is something that has to be produced. (April 8, 2008)

Information and advice for international applicants by Seda Mansour for the 2006-2007 application year.

Information and advice for recommenders for the 2006-2007 application year.