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GSB-PHD - Business Administration (PhD)

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The mission of the Stanford Graduate School of Business is to create ideas that deepen and advance the understanding of management and, through these ideas, develop innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who change the world.

For detailed information on programs, curricula, and faculty, see the  School’s  website .

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The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree program is designed to develop outstanding scholars for careers in research and teaching in various fields of study associated with business education. Students focus on one of seven discrete areas of study, including accounting, economic analysis and policy, finance, marketing, operations information and technology, organizational behavior, and political economy.

For detailed information on programs, curricula, and faculty, see the  School's website .

Stanford GSB Application Portal

Welcome to the Stanford GSB application portal. You can view your in-progress application(s) or start a new application below. The Stanford GSB PhD Program application deadline is December 1, 2023 at 5pm PST. The Stanford GSB Research Fellows Program’s application is due by October 16, 2023, for full consideration. The program has rolling admissions until March 1, 2024. Please be reminded that all application materials, including recommendation letters, must be submitted by the application deadlines. We cannot guarantee review of any materials submitted after the deadlines. 

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Stanford University Business School Overview

The Graduate School of Business at Stanford University offers these departments and concentrations: accounting, business analytics, e-commerce, economics, entrepreneurship, ethics, finance, general management, health care administration, human resources management, insurance, international business, leadership, manufacturing and technology management, marketing, management information systems, not-for-profit management, production/operations management, project management, organizational behavior, portfolio management, public administration, public policy, real estate, sports business, supply chain management/logistics, quantitative analysis/statistics and operations research, tax, technology, and transportation. Its tuition is full-time: $79,860 per year. At graduation, 60.90 percent of graduates of the full-time program are employed.

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• # 7 in Accounting
• # 2 in Entrepreneurship
• # 5 in Finance
• # 3 in Management
• # 4 in Marketing  (tie)
• # 3 in Nonprofit
• # 5 in Production / Operations
• # 10 in Supply Chain / Logistics  (tie)

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Doctoral Program

The Ph.D. program is a full time program leading to a Doctoral Degree in Economics.  Students specialize in various fields within Economics by enrolling in field courses and attending field specific lunches and seminars.  Students gain economic breadth by taking additional distribution courses outside of their selected fields of interest.

General requirements

Students  are required to complete 1 quarter of teaching experience. Teaching experience includes teaching assistantships within the Economics department or another department .

University's residency requirement

135 units of full-tuition residency are required for PhD students. After that, a student should have completed all course work and must request Terminal Graduate Registration (TGR) status.

Department degree requirements and student checklist

1. core course requirement.

Required: Core Microeconomics (202-203-204) Core Macroeconomics (210-211-212) Econometrics (270-271-272).  The Business School graduate microeconomics class series may be substituted for the Econ Micro Core.  Students wishing to waive out of any of the first year core, based on previous coverage of at least 90% of the material,  must submit a waiver request to the DGS at least two weeks prior to the start of the quarter.  A separate waiver request must be submitted for each course you are requesting to waive.  The waiver request must include a transcript and a syllabus from the prior course(s) taken.  

2.  Field Requirements

Required:  Two of the Following Fields Chosen as Major Fields (click on link for specific field requirements).  Field sequences must be passed with an overall grade average of B or better.  Individual courses require a letter grade of B- or better to pass unless otherwise noted.

Research fields and field requirements :

• Behavioral & Experimental
• Development Economics
• Econometric Methods with Causal Inference
• Econometrics
• Economic History
• Environmental, Resource and Energy Economics
• Industrial Organization
• International Trade & Finance
• Labor Economics
• Market Design
• Microeconomic Theory
• Macroeconomics
• Political Economy
• Public Economics

3.  Distribution

Required:  Four other graduate-level courses must be completed. One of these must be from the area of economic history (unless that field has already been selected above). These courses must be distributed in such a way that at least two fields not selected above are represented.  Distribution courses must be passed with a grade of B or better.

4.  Field Seminars/Workshops

Required:  Three quarters of two different field seminars or six quarters of the same field seminar from the list below.   

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Program fee, us$2,800 us$2,492, sustainability leadership starts with you.

A survey of recent headlines and research reports reveals the ways that consumers, employees, investors, and other stakeholders are using their influence to demand solutions to our global climate crisis. The majority of business leaders have sustainability on their radar, but what do sustainability initiatives look like in practice, and how can we make progress when the challenges seem insurmountable?

of S&P 500 organizations publish ESG reports in some form, as do approximately 70 percent of Russell 1000 organizations.

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of global consumers are willing to pay higher-than-average prices for products made with sustainable materials, and demand for sustainable products is expected to grow exponentially in emerging markets.

Key Takeaways

• Develop an understanding of the impacts and root causes of climate change to communicate the value of sustainable business practices to key stakeholders.
• Learn to identify business opportunities that arise by transitioning to an environmentally sustainable organization.
• Understand the interdependence between innovation and sustainability as a guiding force for developing your own sustainability initiatives.
• Develop a proactive mindset to lead change effectively, with an eye toward positioning the organization as an agent of change.

This Program Is Ideal for Professionals and Leaders Who Are:

Building strategies that move the needle on sustainability efforts within their organizations or industries

Developing and communicating the vision and value of a sustainable business future

Striving to be on the leading edge of environmental sustainability or transitioning from a legacy business model to a more innovative approach to business

Driving strategies at the business unit or organizational level, where maintaining a competitive advantage is critical

Program modules.

• Develop your understanding of the climate challenges at hand and key terminology, including the carbon cycle, energy buildup, tipping points, and cumulative emissions.
• Reflect on how climate change is impacting your organization and what you can learn from your competitors.
• Make a pitch for sustainability as part of a communication exercise.
• Understand the components of a business model using the business model architecture framework.
• Examine Tesla’s business model as part of a case study deep dive.
• Explore where your business model intersects with sustainability issues and identify opportunities.
• Learn how Little’s law—a numerical theorem—is applied to understanding circular economies and their relationship to the value chain. Map your organization’s value chain in relation to sustainability.
• Propose short and long-term actions that impact your organization's value chain as it relates to climate change.
• Identify opportunities to lead sustainability change at any level of your organization and learn how to become an agent of change.
• Understand how leadership can be leveraged to support and grow sustainability goals across the organization.
• Explore the interdependency between innovation and accomplishing sustainability goals.
• Understand the role of leadership in managing the risks associated with change.
• Examine several use cases, including Toyota Prius, Boeing 787, and Tesla, using the DICE framework—a unified framework for business model innovation.
• Analyze the impacts of political risks from private political groups, such as nongovernmental organizations, individual activists, and the media, using Citigroup's case study as a practical example.
• Investigate the influence of location-based political risks on business decision making through Tata Motors' case.
• Apply practical tools to mitigate and manage political risks in various business contexts.
• Utilize a structured framework to systematically assess the responses of various interest groups to environmental policies.
• Examine the intricacies of global environmental policy development and implementation and evaluate an organization's existing sustainability strategy.
• Use the triple bottom line framework to measure, evaluate, and communicate sustainability performance for your organization.
• Analyze sustainability-related strategic performance and how it relates to your organization’s value creation activities and create your action plan for sustainability.

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Access to Stanford Graduate School of Business proprietary strategy tools and frameworks

Manageable time investment (four to six hours/week)

Live sessions with faculty

Assignments for you to apply learnings to your own role or industry

Networking with global peers

Featured case study and cross-industry examples

Feedback on assignments to ensure the relevance of the program material

Certificate of completion from Stanford Graduate School of Business

Featured Program Elements

Capstone project designed to jump-start your sustainability efforts

Create an action plan that will positively impact sustainability in your organization. Using your weekly workbook exercises, you will identify your priorities based on where you can make an immediate difference for your organization.

Original strategic frameworks and tools from Stanford faculty

The proprietary frameworks are tools that help leaders support an organization's value chain and become efficient in leading sustainability initiatives and driving business change.

Featured case studies

Gain insights from Tesla, Lego, General Motors, and Citigroup’s business models and other successful businesses through case studies.

Testimonials

“I appreciated the way each module was shown as part of a bigger theme and how the concepts built on top of and across each other to provide a wide understanding of sustainability from different angles. The required workbooks and the capstone project helped put everything together.” — Nadia Szeinbaum, Innovation Scientist at Beyond Meat

“The program content was taught by faculty with impressive expertise and a diversity of teaching methods that helped us to learn new concepts and immediately put them into practice.” — Marco Luchsinger, MBA Candidate

“The module workbooks really forced me to think deeply about my organization.” — Andrea Wong, board member at Liberty Media

Meet the Faculty

William Barnett

The Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations

Chris Field

The Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University

Saumitra Jha

Associate Professor of Political Economy

Haim Mendelson

The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Professor of Electronic Business and Commerce, and Management

Joseph Piotroski

The Robert K. Jaedicke Professor of Accounting

Erica Plambeck

The Charles A. Holloway Professor of Operations, Information and Technology

Stefanos Zenios

The Investment Group of Santa Barbara Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Operations, Information & Technology

William Barnett The Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations

Chris Field The Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University

Saumitra Jha Associate Professor of Political Economy

Haim Mendelson The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Professor of Electronic Business and Commerce, and Management

Joseph Piotroski The Robert K. Jaedicke Professor of Accounting

Erica Plambeck The Charles A. Holloway Professor of Operations, Information and Technology

Stefanos Zenios The Investment Group of Santa Barbara Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Operations, Information & Technology

Certificate

Upon completion of this program, you will receive a certificate of completion from Stanford Graduate School of Business that you can share with your professional network.

How do I know if this program is right for me?

After reviewing the information on the program landing page, we recommend that you submit the short form above to gain access to the program brochure, which includes more in-depth information. If you still have questions on whether this program is a good fit for you, please email [email protected] , and a dedicated program advisor will follow up with you very shortly.

Are there any prerequisites for this program?

Participants must be 18 years old or above to apply to this program. Some programs do have prerequisites, particularly the more technical ones. This information will be noted on the program landing page and in the program brochure. If you are uncertain about program prerequisites and your capabilities, please email us at [email protected] for assistance.

Note that, unless otherwise stated on the program web page, all programs are taught in English, and proficiency in English is required..

What is the typical class profile?

More than 50 percent of our participants are from outside the United States. Class profiles vary from one cohort to the next, but, generally, our online certificates draw a highly diverse audience in terms of professional experience, industry, and geography—leading to a very rich peer learning and networking experience.

At what other dates will this program be offered in the future?

Check back to this program web page or email us at [email protected] to inquire whether future program dates or the timeline for future offerings has been confirmed.

How much time is required each week?

Each program includes an estimated learner effort per week. This is referenced at the top of the program landing page under the Duration section as well as in the program brochure, which you can obtain by submitting the short form at the top of this web page.

How will my time be spent?

We have designed this program to fit into your current working life as efficiently as possible. Time will be spent among a variety of activities, including:

• Engaging with recorded video lectures from faculty
• Attending webinars and office hours as per the specific program schedule
• Reading or engaging with examples of core topics
• Completing knowledge checks/quizzes and required activities
• Engaging in moderated discussion groups with your peers
• Completing your final project, if required

The program is designed to be highly interactive while also allowing time for self-reflection and demonstrating an understanding of the core topics through various active learning exercises. Please contact us at [email protected] if you need further clarification on program activities.

A dedicated program support team is available 24/5 (Monday to Friday) to answer questions about the learning platform, technical issues, or anything else that may affect your learning experience.

How do I interact with other program participants?

Peer learning adds substantially to the overall learning experience and is an important part of the program. You can connect and communicate with other participants through our learning platform.

What are the requirements to earn the certificate?

Each program includes an estimated learner effort per week, so you can gauge what will be required before you enroll. This is referenced at the top of the program landing page under the Duration section as well as in the program brochure, which you can obtain by submitting the short form at the top of this web page. All programs are designed to fit into your working life. This program is scored as a pass or no pass; participants must complete the required activities to pass and obtain the certificate of completion. Some programs include a final project submission or other assignments to obtain passing status. This information will be noted in the program brochure. Please contact us at [email protected] if you need further clarification on any specific program requirements.

What type of certificate will I receive?

Upon successful completion of the program, you will receive a smart digital certificate. The smart digital certificate can be shared with friends, family, schools, or potential employers. You can use it on your cover letter or resume or display it on your LinkedIn profile. The digital certificate will be sent approximately two weeks after the program end date, once grading is complete.

Can I get a the hard copy of the certificate?

No, only verified digital certificates will be issued upon successful completion. This allows you to share your credentials on social platforms, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

Do I receive alumni status after completing this program?

No, there is no alumni status granted for this program. In some cases, there are credits that count toward a higher level of certification. This information will be clearly noted in the program brochure.

How long will I have access to the learning materials?

You will have access to the online learning platform and all the videos and program materials for 12 months following the program start date . Access to the learning platform is restricted to registered participants as per the terms of the agreement.

What equipment or technical requirements are there for this program?

Participants will need the latest version of their preferred browser to access the learning platform. In addition, Microsoft Office and a PDF viewer are required to access documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF files, and transcripts.

Do I need to be online to access the program content?

Yes, the learning platform is accessed via the internet, and video content is not available for download. However, you can download files of video transcripts, assignment templates, readings, etc. For maximum flexibility, you can access program content from a desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile device. Video lectures must be streamed via the internet, and any live stream webinars and office hours will require an internet connection as well. However, these sessions are always recorded, so you may view them later.

Can I still register if the registration deadline has passed?

Yes, you can register up to seven days after the published start date of the program without missing any of the core program material or learnings.

What is the program fee, and what forms of payment do you accept?

The program fee is noted at the top of this program web page and is usually referenced in the program brochure as well. Flexible payment options are available (see details below as well as at the top of this program web page next to FEE).

What if I don’t have a credit card? Is there another method of payment accepted?

Yes, you can do a bank remittance in the program currency via wire transfer or debit card. Please contact your program advisor or email us at [email protected] for details.

I was not able to use the discount code provided. Can you help?

Yes! Please email us at [email protected] with the details of the program you are interested in, and we will assist you.

How can I obtain an invoice for payment?

Please email [email protected] with your invoicing requirements and the specific program you’re interested in enrolling in.

Is there an option to make flexible payments for this program?

Yes, the flexible payment option allows participants to pay the program fee in installments. This option is made available on the payment page and should be selected before submitting the payment.

How can I obtain a W9 form?

Please email us at [email protected] for assistance.

Who will be collecting the payment for the program?

Emeritus collects all program payments, provides learner enrollment and program support, and manages learning platform services.

What is the program refund and deferral policy?

For the program refund and deferral policy, please click the link here .

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Coley Andrews

Bio Coley Andrews is the Managing Member and co-founder of Pacific Lake Partners, a firm focused exclusively on the Search Fund model. Since co-founding Pacific Lake in 2009 with Search Fund pioneer Jim Southern, Coley has worked with over 200 search funds worldwide. Coley is responsible for leading Pacific Lake’s growth to support the firm’s mission, which is to empower entrepreneurial CEO’s with resources and capital to buy and build extraordinary businesses. Pacific Lake has a team of 24 talented individuals, including successful former search fund CEOs, working full-time to support entrepreneurs. Coley is a current or former board member of multiple search fund companies including Morningside Translations, FieldEdge, Ethos Risk Services, Intellitriage, Flint Group, Datacor, and Circle Surrogacy. Coley also is a current or former board observer at Vector Disease Control, Raptor Technologies, and Arizona College of Nursing. Coley is a Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches two classes focused on managing growing enterprises as a young entrepreneurial leader. Prior to forming Pacific Lake, Coley worked for Golden Gate Capital, a private equity firm in San Francisco, and in management consulting for The Parthenon Group. Coley graduated from Dartmouth College and has an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Coley lives with his family outside of Boston, MA.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Christopher Stephen Armstrong

Joan e. horngren professor of accounting.

• 655 KNIGHT WAY
• STANFORD, California 94305

Adi Aron-Gilat

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800

Susan Athey

Economics of technology professor, senior fellow at the stanford institute for economic policy research and professor, by courtesy, of economics.

• (650) 725-1813 (office)
• Web page: http://athey.people.stanford.edu/

Jonathan Atwell

Assistant professor of organizational behavior at the graduate school of business.

• 521 MEMORIAL WAY

Ms Naomi Joanne Bagdonas

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

William Barnett

Thomas m. siebel professor of business leadership, professor at the stanford doerr school of sustainability and senior fellow at the woods institute for the environment.

• 655 Knight Way, room W238
• Stanford, California 94305-7298
• Web page: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/william-barnett

Robert P Bartlett

William a. franke professor of law and business, senior fellow at the stanford institute for economic policy research and professor, by courtesy, of finance at the graduate school of business.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 8610 [email protected]

Mohsen Bayati

Carl and marilynn thoma professor in the graduate school of business and professor, by courtesy, of electrical engineering.

Current Research and Scholarly Interests 1) Healthcare management: I am interested in improving healthcare delivery using data-driven modeling and decision-making. 2) Network models and message-passing algorithms: I work on graphical modeling ideas motivated from statistical physics and their applications in statistical inference. 3) Personalized decision-making: I work on machine learning and statistical challenges of personalized decision-making. The problems that I have worked on are primarily motivated by healthcare applications.

• Faculty East Building E363
• Knight Management Center
• 655 Knight Way
• Stanford, California 94305
• (650) 725-2285 (office)
• Web page: http://web.stanford.edu/~bayati

Juliane Maria Begenau

Associate professor of finance at the graduate school of business.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Jonathan Bendor

Walter and elise haas professor in the graduate school of business and professor, by courtesy, of political science.

• Littlefield 351
• Stanford, California 94305-5015
• (650) 723-4480 (office)

Eric Bettinger

Conley deangelis family professor, professor of education, senior fellow at the hoover institution and at the stanford institute for economic policy research and professor, by courtesy, of economics at the graduate school of business.

Current Research and Scholarly Interests Eric's research interests include economics of education; student success and completion in college; the impacts of online education; the impacts of financial aid; teacher characteristics and student success in college; effects of voucher programs on both academic and non-academic outcomes. His research focuses on using rigorous statistical methods in identifying cause-and-effect relationships in higher education.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 6010-M [email protected]

Konstantinos Bimpikis

Professor of operations, information and technology at the graduate school of business.

Michael Blank

Visiting assistant professor, graduate school of business.

• Contact Info [email protected]

Nicholas Bloom

William d. eberle professor of economics, senior fellow at the stanford institute for economic policy research and professor, by courtesy, of economics at the graduate school of business.

• 579 Serra Mall
• (650) 725-7836 (office)
• Other Names: Nick Bloom

Scott Brady

Bio Scott Brady is a founding partner at Innovation Endeavors, an early stage venture capital firm with offices in Palo Alto and New York City,. Previously Scott was a serial entrepreneur and co-founded three publicly traded tech companies. In his role as an investor, Scott looks to partner with entrepreneurs who are tackling technically difficult challenges that are capital intensive and truly transformative. These companies leverage a proliferation of data and new computation and automation tools to run more experiments; learn and iterate faster, better, and cheaper; and speed up the growth cycle. Scott has led Innovation Endeavors investments in multiple Stanford Graduate School of Business-founded companies, including Plenty, which is driving the evolution of the $3 trillion agriculture industry with indoor, vertical farms that are powered by machine learning, data science, and automation; Clear Metal, which is leveraging AI and machine learning to clean up disorganized, dirty data in the supply chain, making it easier to predict problems and manage complexity; and Citrine, which uses AI and massive data sets to accelerate materials discovery and product development. Prior to joining Innovation Endeavors, Scott was the chief executive officer of Slice, where he was also a co-founder and board member. Prior to working at Slice, he was co- founder and chief executive officer of FiberTower, co-founder and chief technology officer of Clarus Corp., and co-founder and chief technology officer of SQLFinancials. Scott is also a lecturer in management at Stanford GSB, where he teaches about management and new venture formation. Additionally, he serves on the school’s Advisory Council and is chairman of the advisory board for its MSx Program. Scott earned his master’s in management from Stanford GSB and a bachelor’s in finance, with high honors, from the University of Florida. Scott holds multiple software and technology patents.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Erik Brynjolfsson

Jerry yang and akiko yamazaki professor, senior fellow at stanford institute for human-centered artificial intelligence, at siepr & professor, by courtesy, of economics & of operations, information & technology & of economics at the gsb.

Bio Erik Brynjolfsson is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab at HAI. He is also the Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at SIEPR, and a Professor, by courtesy, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and at the Department of Economics. Prof. Brynjolfsson is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-author of six books, including The Second Machine Age. His research, teaching and speaking focus on the effects of digital technologies, including AI, on the economy and business.

• Contact Info
• Web page: http://brynjolfsson.com

Gregory Edward Buchak

Associate professor of finance at the graduate school of business and center fellow at the stanford institute for economic policy research.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Jeremy Bulow

Richard stepp professor in the graduate school of business, senior fellow at the stanford institute for economic policy research and professor, by courtesy, of economics.

• Knight Management Center Rm. E 354
• (650) 723-2160 (office)
• Web page: http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/bulow/

Steven Callander

Herbert hoover professor of public and private management, senior fellow at the stanford institute for economic policy research and professor, by courtesy, of economics and of political science.

• Stanford - Graduate School of Business
• Faculty East Building E228
• Other Names: Steve Callander

Modibo Khane Camara

Assistant professor of economics in the graduate school of business.

Bio I'm a microeconomic theorist who does work at the intersection of economics and computer science. As of writing, I am finishing my PhD in Economics at Northwestern. In July 2022, I will be a Saieh Family Fellow at the University of Chicago's Becker-Friedman Institute. In July 2023, I will be an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Dikla Carmel-Hurwitz

• 655 Knight Way, Stanford, CA

Glenn Carroll

Adams distinguished professor of management and professor, by courtesy, of sociology.

• (650) 736-1152 (office)
• Web page: https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/facultyprofiles/biomain.asp?id=11395379

Katherine Casey

Professor of political economy at the graduate school of business and senior fellow at the stanford institute for economic policy research.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Leslie Chin

• Contact Info Mail Code: 3096

Jung Ho Choi

Assistant professor of accounting at the graduate school of business.

• Stanford University
• (650) 721-8434 (office)

Stephen Ciesinski

Julien Alexandre Romain Clement

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

John Cochrane

Senior fellow at the stanford institute for economic policy research and rose-marie and jack r. anderson senior fellow at the hoover institution and professor, by courtesy, of economics and of finance at the graduate school of business.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 6015 [email protected]
• Web page: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/

Geoffrey Cohen

James g. march professor of organizational studies in education and business, professor of psychology and, by courtesy, of organizational behavior at the graduate school of business.

Current Research and Scholarly Interests Much of my research examines processes related to identity maintenance and their implications for social problems. One primary aim of my research is the development of theory-driven, rigorously tested intervention strategies that further our understanding of the processes underpinning social problems and that offer solutions to alleviate them. Two key questions lie at the core of my research: “Given that a problem exists, what are its underlying processes?” And, “Once identified, how can these processes be overcome?” One reason for this interest in intervention is my belief that a useful way to understand psychological processes and social systems is to try to change them. We also are interested in how and when seemingly brief interventions, attuned to underlying psychological processes, produce large and long-lasting psychological and behavioral change. The methods that my lab uses include laboratory experiments, longitudinal studies, content analyses, and randomized field experiments. One specific area of research addresses the effects of group identity on achievement, with a focus on under-performance and racial and gender achievement gaps. Additional research programs address hiring discrimination, the psychology of closed-mindedness and inter-group conflict, and psychological processes underlying anti-social and health-risk behavior.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 3096 [email protected]

Antonio Coppola

Assistant professor of finance at the graduate school of business and center fellow at the stanford institute for economic policy research.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 6072 [email protected]

Andrea Corney

• Zambrano Hall, Z305
• Web page: http://web.stanford.edu/people/acorney

Stuart John Coulson

• Web page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartc

Stephen Davis

Bio Steve Davis currently serves as a Senior Advisor with McKinsey & Company, as an Executive Advisor at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as a Stanford Graduate School of Business Lecturer and Global Health Faculty Fellow, and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Steve has deep experience, including on numerous boards and advisory groups, focused on the intersection of business, innovation, and social impact. He currently serves as co-chair of the G7 Triple I Initiative to increase impact investment in global health and as chair of the Advisory Board of the Brookings/CSIS initiative on Advancing US-China Collaboration. He recently served as most recently served as co-chair of the World Health Organization’s Digital Health Technical Advisory Group, and as a Distinguished Fellow for the World Economic Forum. Steve is the former President & CEO of PATH, a leading global health innovation organization; former Director of Social Innovation at McKinsey; former CEO of Corbis, a digital media pioneer; and as an attorney with K&L Gates. With degrees from Princeton University, University of Washington, and Columbia Law School, Steve is the author of Undercurrents: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism (Wiley 2020) and speaks and writes frequently on topics related to social innovation and digital health. He lives with his family in Seattle, Washington.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]
• Other Names: Steve Davis

Professor of Accounting at the Graduate School of Business

Joseph M. DeSimone

Sanjiv sam gambhir professor of translational medicine, professor of chemical engineering and, by courtesy, of chemistry, of materials science and engineering, and of operations, information and technology at the graduate school of business.

Bio Joseph M. DeSimone is the Sanjiv Sam Gambhir Professor of Translational Medicine and Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. He holds appointments in the Departments of Radiology and Chemical Engineering with courtesy appointments in the Department of Chemistry and in Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. The DeSimone laboratory's research efforts are focused on developing innovative, interdisciplinary solutions to complex problems centered around advanced polymer 3D fabrication methods. In Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, the lab is pursuing new capabilities in digital 3D printing, as well as the synthesis of new polymers for use in advanced additive technologies. In Translational Medicine, research is focused on exploiting 3D digital fabrication tools to engineer new vaccine platforms, enhanced drug delivery approaches, and improved medical devices for numerous conditions, with a current major focus in pediatrics. Complementing these research areas, the DeSimone group has a third focus in Entrepreneurship, Digital Transformation, and Manufacturing. Before joining Stanford in 2020, DeSimone was a professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and of chemical engineering at North Carolina State University. He is also Co-founder, Board Chair, and former CEO (2014 - 2019) of the additive manufacturing company, Carbon. DeSimone is responsible for numerous breakthroughs in his career in areas including green chemistry, medical devices, nanomedicine, and 3D printing. He has published over 350 scientific articles and is a named inventor on over 200 issued patents. Additionally, he has mentored 80 students through Ph.D. completion in his career, half of whom are women and members of underrepresented groups in STEM. In 2016 DeSimone was recognized by President Barack Obama with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest U.S. honor for achievement and leadership in advancing technological progress. He has received numerous other major awards in his career, including the U.S. Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (1997); the American Chemical Society Award for Creative Invention (2005); the Lemelson-MIT Prize (2008); the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award (2009); the AAAS Mentor Award (2010); the Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy and Employment (2017); the Wilhelm Exner Medal (2019); the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2019 U.S. Overall National Winner); and the Harvey Prize in Science and Technology (2020). He is one of only 25 individuals elected to all three branches of the U.S. National Academies (Sciences, Medicine, Engineering). DeSimone received his B.S. in Chemistry in 1986 from Ursinus College and his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1990 from Virginia Tech.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 5105 [email protected]

Mitesh Dhruv

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Rebecca Diamond

Class of 1988 professor, professor of economics at the graduate school of business, senior fellow at the stanford institute for economic policy research and professor, by courtesy, of economics.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4935 [email protected]

Connor Lawrence Diemand-Yauman

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]
• Other Names: Connor Diemand-Yauman

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Collins P. Dobbs

• (770) 519-5900 (office)

David Dodson

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Kwabena Donkor

Assistant professor of marketing at the graduate school of business and center fellow at the stanford institute for economic policy research.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 5015 [email protected]

Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution and Professor, by courtesy, of Economics

• Knight Center E370
• (650) 723-1976 (office)
• Other Names: James Darrell Duffie Darrell Duffie J.D. Duffie

Jennifer Dulski

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Jennifer Eberhardt

Morris m. doyle centennial professor of public policy, william r. kimball professor at the graduate school of business, professor of psychology and by courtesy, of law.

Current Research and Scholarly Interests My research is on race and inequality. I am especially interested in examining race and inequality in the criminal justice context. My most recent research focuses on how the association of African Americans with crime might matter at different points in the criminal justice system and how this association can affect us in surprising ways.

• Stanford, California 94305-2130

Yossi Feinberg

The adams distinguished professor of management.

• Faculty Building E309
• (650) 725-0331 (office)

Octavia Foarta

Assistant professor of political economy at the graduate school of business.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]
• Other Names: Octavia Daniela Foarta

Ricki Frankel

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4820 [email protected]

Michele Gelfand

John h. scully professor of international business studies and professor, by courtesy, of psychology.

Bio Michele Gelfand is the John H. Scully Professor of Cross-Cultural Management and Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business School and Professor of Psychology by Courtesy. She was formerly a Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Gelfand uses field, experimental, computational and neuroscience methods to understand the evolution of culture and its multilevel consequences. Her work has been published in outlets such as Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science, Nature Human behavior, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, among others. Gelfand is the founding co-editor of the Advances in Culture and Psychology series (Oxford University Press). Her book Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire the World was published by Scribner in 2018. She is the Past President of the International Association for Conflict Management and co-founder of the Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution. She received the 2016 Diener award from SPSP, the 2017 Outstanding International Psychologist Award from the American Psychological Association, the 2019 Outstanding Cultural Psychology Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the 2020 Rubin Theory-to-Practice award from the International Association of Conflict Management, the 2021 Contributions to Society award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management, and the Annaliese Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation. Gelfand was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Brandon Gipper

Associate professor of accounting at the graduate school of business.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Amir Goldberg

Associate professor of organizational behavior at the graduate school of business and, by courtesy, of sociology.

Samuel Goldberg

Bio I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy. In the Fall of 2023, I will be joining Stanford Graduate School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Marketing. I work mostly on topics in industrial organization and quantitative marketing with a particular interest on the role of privacy and monitoring technologies in markets. I hold a PhD from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and undergraduate degrees in Economics and Physics from Brandeis University.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 6072 [email protected]

Joseph Maxwell Golden

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Alison Goldsworthy

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Yonatan Gur

Associate professor of operations, information and technology at the graduate school of business.

Bio I am an Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business. I received my PhD in Decision, Risk, and Operations from Columbia Business School. I hold a B.Sc. degree from the School of Physics and Astronomy and an M.Sc. from the School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University. My research addresses dynamic optimization in uncertain environments with applications in platform and market analytics. My work aims to elucidate salient features in the design and analysis of content platforms, including media sites, ad platforms, and discussion boards, through adapting and synergizing ideas from the operations research and machine learning disciplines together with empirical data analysis. My research has been recognized by several awards, including Informs Lanchester Prize.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]
• Other Names: Yoni Gur

William Guttentag

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Andrew Hall

Davies family professor, professor of political science, senior fellow at the stanford institute for economic policy research, and by courtesy, at the hoover institution.

Bio Andrew Hall is a Professor of Political Economy at the Graduate School of Business and a Professor of Political Science. He is the co-director of the Democracy & Polarization Lab and a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Hall combines large-scale quantitative datasets with tools from economics, statistics, and machine learning to understand how to design democratic systems of governance, with a focus on American elections and legislatures as well as the governance of online communities.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Michael Hannan

Stratacom professor in management, emeritus.

Bio Michael Hannan is the Stratacom Professor of Management Emeritus in the Graduate School of Business and Professor of Sociology Emeritus in the School of Humanities and Sciences. He is also Professor of Organisation Theory, Durham University Business School. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1970. He came to Stanford as Assistant Professor of Sociology in 1969, moved to Cornell in 1984 where he was the Scarborough Professor of Social Sciences, and returned to Stanford in 1991. His major research interests include categories in markets, organizational ecology, sociological methodology, and formal sociological theory. His current theoretical research applies dynamic logics to organization theory. His current empirical research investigates the emergence of organizational categories and the implications of category membership for organizational identity in several domains, including winemaking in the Italian regions of Piedmont and Tuscany as well as Alsace in France. Professor Hannan has published more than 100 articles in scholarly journals. Two of his books have received best book awards from the American Sociological Association. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, and he received a Guggenheim fellowship.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Bard Harstad

David s. lobel professor in business and sustainability, professor at the doerr school of sustainability and professor, by courtesy, of economics.

Bio With a PhD from Stockholm University, Harstad taught at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2004-2012, and then at the University of Oslo 2012-2023, before joining the GSB in 2023. His fields include political economics, environmental economics, and applied theory. Specific research projects include the design of international agreements, trade agreements and climate agreements, supply-side environmental policies, and policies that motivate environmental conservation and reducing deforestation.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Wesley Hartmann

The john g. mccoy-banc one corporation professor.

• (650) 725-2311 (office)

Thrive Foundation for Youth Professor in the Graduate School of Business, Emeritus

• Faculty Building East, #234

Mr Samuel Blake Hinkie

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]
• Other Names: Sam Hinkie

Hanna Houdali Arenas

Fellow (visiting instructor/lecturer).

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Caroline Hoxby

Scott and donya bommer professor in the school of humanities and sciences, senior fellow at the hoover institution and at the stanford institute for economic policy research and professor, by courtesy, of economics at the gsb.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 6072

Assistant Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at the Graduate School of Business

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Szu-chi Huang

Associate professor of marketing at the graduate school of business.

Current Research and Scholarly Interests Consumer Motivation and Self-Regulation Social Dynamics in Goal Pursuit Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Social Impact Field Experimentation

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Bio Dan Iancu is an Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research and teaching interests are in responsible analytics and AI and data-driven optimization, with applications in supply chain management, FinTech, and healthcare. His work is aimed both at improving existing methodological tools (e.g., by making them more robust, fair, or transparent) and at applying these to design more effective, more equitable, and more sustainable solutions for complex operational problems. An area of particular focus in his recent research has been the design of better procurement, payment, and financing solutions in global supply chains, where material and financial flows carry both immediate and long-term impact on the lives of millions of people and on the environment.

• (650) 724-6642 (office)
• Web page: http://web.stanford.edu/people/daniancu

Guido Imbens

Applied econometrics professor, senior fellow at the stanford institute for economic policy research and professor of economics.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Shawon Jackson

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Saumitra Jha

Associate professor of political economy at the gsb, senior fellow at the freeman spogli institute, at the stanford institute for economic policy research & associate professor, by courtesy, of political science and of economics.

Bio Saumitra Jha is an Associate Professor of Political Economy at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and by courtesy, of Economics and of Political Science. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Affairs and convenes the Stanford Conflict and Polarization Lab. Saumitra holds a BA from Williams College, master’s degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in economics from Stanford University. Prior to joining the GSB, he was an Academy Scholar at Harvard University. He has been a Center Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, as well as of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. He was voted Teacher of the Year by the students of the Stanford GSB Sloan Fellow Class of 2020. He received the Michael Wallerstein Award for best published article in Political Economy from the American Political Science Association in 2014 for his research on ethnic tolerance and his co-authored work on Heroes was awarded the 2020 Oliver Williamson Best Paper Award from the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics.

• Knight Management Center E228
• Stanford, California 94305-7216
• (650) 721-1298 (office)
• Other Names: Saum Jha
• Web page: https://people.stanford.edu/saumitra/

Rajendra Joshi

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]
• Other Names: Raj Joshi

Robert Joss

Philip h. knight professor, emeritus, and former dean of the graduate school of business.

• Faculty West Building W230
• (650) 723-3951 (office)
• Other Names: Bob Joss
• Web page: http://web.stanford.edu/people/rjoss

Omer Karaduman

Assistant professor of operations, information and technology at the graduate school of business and center fellow at the stanford institute for economic policy research and at the precourt institute for energy.

Bio Prior to coming to Stanford, Omer completed his Ph.D. in Economics at MIT in 2020, and got his bachelor's degree in Economics from Bilkent University in 2014. His research focuses on the transition of the energy sector towards a decarbonized and sustainable future. In his research, he utilizes large datasets by using game-theoretical modeling to have practical policy suggestions.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Ron Kasznik

Paul l. and phyllis wattis professor in the graduate school of business.

• Faculty West Building W337
• (650) 725-9740 (office)

Bio Dan Katzir worked for Bain & Company, Teach for America, Sylvan Learning Systems and The Broad Foundation before joining Alliance College-Ready Public Schools as its CEO in 2015. He is an experienced case study teacher and the editor of The Redesign of Urban School Systems: Case Studies in District Governance.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Hugh Keelan

Bio Hugh Keelan is an Lecturer in Management at Stanford Business School. He teaches and mentors MBA and MSx students in courses including Leadership Laboratories, Leadership Fellows, Interpersonal Dynamics, and Paths to Power. He also teaches and coaches executives in programs run by the Executive Education team at Stanford Business School. External to Stanford, Hugh provides executive and team coaching to business professionals seeking to increase their leadership effectiveness. He also works with entrepreneurs in managing successful growth. Sample clients include executives/managers at Adobe, Analog Devices, Apple, Cisco Systems, Google, Gartner Group, HSBC, Paypal, Wells Fargo and Xerox. Hugh has 20 years of US and international experience in leadership development, corporate development, marketing, venture capital and M&A. He has worked at senior levels in the US with Oracle Corp. and in Europe with one of the high-performing corporations on the London Stock Exchange. Hugh holds a Masters degree from Stanford Business School, a Law degree from Trinity College Dublin and postgraduate qualifications in finance. He undertook his coach training with the Coaches Training Institute, and holds various leadership development certifications. Links

• (650) 724-1477 (office)

Peter Kelly

• 129 Miller Ave Ste 624
• Mill Valley, California 94941-5515

John David Kepler

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]

Daniel Kessler

Professor of law, keith and jan hurlbut senior fellow at the hoover institution, professor of political economics at the gsb, senior fellow at the stanford institute for economic policy research and professor, by courtesy, of health policy.

• Contact Info Mail Code: 6010 [email protected]

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Rachel Konrad

Naz Kara Koont

• Contact Info [email protected]

Michal Kosinski

Associate professor of organizational behavior at the graduate school of business.

Bio Please visit: http://www.michalkosinski.com/

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]
• Web page: http://www.michalkosinski.com

Roderick Kramer

William r. kimball professor in the graduate school of business, emeritus.

Keith Krehbiel

Edward b. rust professor in the graduate school of business, emeritus.

• 655 Knight Way, W-352
• (650) 723-2855 (office)
• Web page: http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/krehbiel

David Kreps

Adams distinguished professor of management at the graduate school of business, emeritus.

• Faculty East Building E312

• Contact Info Mail Code: 4800 [email protected]
• Web page: https://TheRealLing.com

David Larcker

James irvin miller professor in accounting, emeritus.

• Faculty East Building E356

Charles Lee

Moghadam family professor, emeritus.

Bio Charles M. C. Lee is the Moghadam Family Professor, Emeritus, at the Graduate School of Business (GSB), Stanford University. (https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/charles-m-lee) Professor Lee studies the effect of human cognitive constraints on market participants and other factors that impact the efficiency with which market prices incorporate information. He has published extensively in leading academic journals in accounting and finance on topics that include behavioral finance, market microstructure, equity valuation, financial analysis, quantitative investing, and security market regulation. From 2004 to July 2008, Dr. Lee was Managing Director at Barclays Global Investors (BGI; now Blackrock). As Global Head of Equity Research and Co-Head of North America Active Equities, he led the firm’s world-wide active equity research team and was jointly responsible for its North American active equity business. During his tenure, BGI had over $300 billion in active equity asset under management. He joined Stanford GSB as Visiting Professor in July 2008 while continuing to serve as an exclusive senior consultant to BGI, and became a full-time faculty member in July 2009. Dr. Lee has received numerous honors, including the Notable Contribution to Accounting Literature Prize, as well as twelve school-wide or national-level Teaching Excellence Awards. Most recently, he was honored with the Harry Lyman Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professorship, McMaster University, 2021; Keynote Speaker at the JIAR Annual Conference, 2021; and the Best Paper Award, AAA Spark Conference, Western Regional, 2021. He has been the Presidential Scholar of the AAA, and recipient of the Stanford University Asian American Faculty Award for Outstanding Achievements and Service to the University and to the Asian American Community. Professor Lee has been Editor or Associate Editor of a number of academic journals, including: The Accounting Review, the Journal of Finance, Management Science (Finance), the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Accounting Research, the Review of Accounting Studies, and the Financial Analysts Journal. His research has also been featured in such popular media outlets as: the Economist, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio (NPR), the LA Times, Business Week, CNBC, Forbes, Barron's, Worth, Smart Money, and Institutional Investors. Professor Lee received his BMath from the University of Waterloo (1981), and his MBA (1989) and PhD (1990) from Cornell University. He has been a faculty member at the Michigan Business School (1990-95) the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University (1996-2004), and the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University (2009-2021). From 1995-96 he was Visiting Economist at the New York Stock Exchange. Prior to entering academic life, he spent five years in public accounting, the last three in the National Research Department of KPMG, Toronto, Canada. He holds a Certificate in Biblical Studies from Ontario Theological Seminary, and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. 8/2022

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Current Research and Scholarly Interests Using value chains to accelerate and support innovations, entrepreneurship developments using value chains to create values in developing economies; global supply chain management with digital technologies

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Bio Jonathan Levin, a distinguished economist and academic leader, is the Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. During his tenure as dean, the GSB’s faculty and educational programs have prospered, and the school has expanded its efforts in key areas including technology and sustainability. Levin is widely recognized for his scholarship in microeconomics and industrial organization. He received the John Bates Clark Medal as the outstanding American economist under the age of 40. He currently serves as a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

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Knight-Hennessy Scholars has no restrictions based on age, college or university, field of study, or career aspiration. We encourage citizens and residents of all countries to apply. We do not require applicants to seek endorsements from colleges, universities, or other institutions. Additionally, there are no quotas by discipline or program.

There are two baseline eligibility requirements.

Requirement 1: Admission to Stanford

First, in addition to applying to Knight-Hennessy Scholars (KHS), you must apply to, be accepted by, and enroll in a full-time Stanford graduate degree program including, but not limited to, DMA, JD, MA, MBA, MD, MFA, MPP, MS, or PhD programs. You must meet at least one of the following four conditions:

• You are applying separately but concurrently to KHS and a full-time Stanford graduate degree program such that you will start both in the same year.
• You have already been offered and deferred admission to a full-time Stanford graduate degree program, and will apply to KHS such that you will start both in the same year.
• You are a current Stanford graduate student who will apply to add a second full-time Stanford graduate degree program, such that you will start both KHS and the new program in the same year.
• You are a current Stanford PhD student in your first year of enrollment, and will apply to KHS such that you will start KHS in your second year of PhD enrollment.  

Please note that the following Stanford graduate degree programs are not eligible for Knight-Hennessy Scholars:

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• Current Stanford PhD students adding an MA or MS degree in their current discipline

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Second, you must have earned, in January 2018 or later, a U.S. bachelor’s degree or its equivalent from a college or university of recognized standing.

For applicants who served in the military, we extend the eligibility window by two years in acknowledgement of longer service commitments; you must have earned your degree in January 2016 or later to enroll in 2025. Current college students are eligible if you will earn your first degree by September 2025. Within the eligibility window, we do not give preference based on recency of the degree.

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A: If you graduated with your first/bachelor's degree more than seven years before your intended enrollment date (in 2017 or earlier, for the autumn 2025 intake), then you are not eligible for consideration as a Knight-Hennessy scholar. This applies even if you have earned an additional degree in 2018 or later. You may still apply to the Stanford graduate program of your choice, and there are many other options for funding your graduate education at Stanford.  (Those who served in their country's military have two additional years of eligibility.)

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A:  If you are a Stanford PhD student who started your PhD in 2024, you may apply in 2024 such that you will start KHS in 2025 (your second year of PhD enrollment). Otherwise, if you enrolled in a graduate degree program at Stanford in 2024 or earlier, you are ineligible for consideration as a Knight-Hennessy scholar for your current degree program. 

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Graduate workers seek ‘substantial’ raise

Following months of surveys, research and internal debate, the Stanford Graduate Workers Union (SGWU) has released its proposed economic platform, centering around “an immediate and substantial pay raise for all graduate workers.”

From April 25 to May 15, all cardholding Union members will be able to vote on whether to accept or reject the platform. Assuming a simple majority of votes affirm the platform, it will serve as the foundation for negotiations between SGWU and the University.

Beyond a pay raise, the platform also seeks to expand access to affordable housing, healthcare and transportation for graduate student workers. At its core, the economic platform seeks to support graduate students in reaching their “maximum potential,” according to Sayush Raj, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in stem cell biology and member of the SGWU Bargaining Committee.

“I really believe that in order for anyone to achieve excellence, they need to be supported by their community, and all of their needs should be fulfilled. They shouldn’t just be trying to survive,” Raj said. “I think that currently [Stanford] just isn’t set up for that.”

For Raj, a key first step in creating this environment is elevating graduate students out of rent-burdened status, which denotes someone paying 30% or more of their salary on rent, as defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Development. As of 2021, 90% of graduate students fell into this category. Today, the “vast majority” of graduate students remain rent-burdened, said fourth-year physics Ph.D. candidate and SGWU Bargaining Committee member Rory O’Dwyer.

The proposed pay raise seeks to address this matter, according to Chris Gustin, fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in applied physics and SGWU Bargaining Committee member.

Gustin explained that the initial draft of compensation proposals is designed to make sure that the large majority of graduate workers would no longer be rent-burdened and would be paid a fair wage that takes into account the Bay Area’s cost of living. 

While an exact number has yet to be finalized by the SGWU, O’Dwyer is encouraged by recent bargaining agreements at Northwestern University, University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins University. Graduate workers at these schools received a 22% , 22% and 40% pay raise respectively. O’Dwyer said that the SGWU will be asking for a similar raise. 

“These are unions that were bargaining for their contract around the same time we are,” O’Dwyer said. “It’s actually quite a good time to be doing what we’re doing right now. A lot of other institutions are getting these sorts of above 20 percent raises in their first year.”

Bargaining committee members also hope to make strides in securing more affordable transportation access for graduate workers. Among their proposals is the return of Caltrain GoPass access for graduate workers. According to Sophie Walton, fourth-year biophysics Ph.D. candidate and SGWU Bargaining Committee member, the committee has seen significant support for bringing back the GoPass. 

Fletcher Chapin, third-year Ph.D. candidate in civil and environmental engineering and SGWU Bargaining Committee member, said that the GoPass’s discontinuation in 2022 inspired his work as a union member. To Chapin, this decision “shows how little Stanford cares about their graduate workers — that they just took away a benefit that many people relied on to get to work daily.”

University spokesperson Dee Mostofi wrote that “Stanford values the many contributions our graduate students make to support the university’s teaching and research mission.”

The SGWU’s economic platform is the organization’s second major set of proposals, following the Union’s “Language Articles.” After months of back-and-forth negotiations between the SGWU and the University, the two parties have only reached a tentative agreement on five of nearly two dozen articles, while the others are still being negotiated on. 

The process for the economic platform is likely to follow a similar timeline, according to O’Dwyer. He said he expects the economic platform to receive a similar level of approval from SGWU voters as the Language Articles, which he said received over 90% of votes in favor of adoption.

Following the approval of the platform by the SGWU body, negotiations with the University are set to follow shortly after, which Mostofi wrote the University remains open and ready for.

“The University looks forward to receiving the union’s proposals at the bargaining table and engaging in productive discussions with the union on those matters,” Mostofi wrote.

While a seemingly long and arduous process for some, according to third-year aeronautics and astronautics Ph.D. candidate Emi Soroka, the eventual results justify the efforts. Referencing a message she’s heard from SGWU leadership, she said, “Every line in our platform will make a difference in someone’s life.”

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Stanford students receive Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships

The award provides generous funding for immigrants and children of immigrants pursuing graduate degrees.

Six Stanford graduate students are among this year’s recipients of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans , a merit-based program for immigrants and children of immigrants.

The Stanford students are among 30 outstanding scholars to receive the fellowship, selected for their achievements and their potential to make meaningful contributions to the United States across fields of study. They each will receive up to $90,000 in funding to support their graduate studies at institutions across the country.

Established in 1997, the fellowship program has provided more than $80 million in funding to students studying in a range of fields, from medicine and the arts to law and business.

Following are the 2024 Paul & Daisy Sorors Fellows from Stanford.

Sara Bobok (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

Sara Bobok and her family immigrated to the United States from Hungary when she was 2, seeking greater economic opportunity. She is pursuing a JD at Stanford Law School and a master’s degree at Stanford Graduate School of Education.

An advocate for children, Bobok spent high school summers volunteering at a Transylvanian orphanage and dedicated school years to fundraising and organizing donation drives for the children. At Harvard University, she studied social studies with a minor in mathematical sciences to better understand the historical, political, and economic roots of inequality.

Bobok has interned with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, researched bail reform at Harvard Law School, designed civic engagement policy with Boston’s then-City Council President Michelle Wu, and served as a strategist for Hungary’s Momentum party. She also spearheaded a project on Hungarian child trafficking prevention, supporting the very orphanages that inspired her work, and served as director of the tutoring program for the Association to Benefit Children, a youth aid organization in East Harlem, New York. She aspires to be a lawyer, educator, and advocate.

Sharon Loa (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

Sharon Loa was born in Puente Piedra, Peru. At age 6, she and her mother relocated to Missoula, Montana. At Stanford, she is pursuing an MD/PhD in cancer biology.

At 16, Loa became a certified pharmacy technician, which led her to wonder how drugs behaved in cells and what effect they had on a patient’s body. Her interest in medicine led her to the University of Montana, where she studied biochemistry. There, Loa worked on research leading to the discovery of three novel protein structures using X-ray crystallography in Professor Klara Briknarova’s lab. Loa also restructured and transformed her university chemistry courses by creating training programs and mentorship opportunities.

After college, Loa received the National Institutes of Health Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. There, she established programs for postbaccalaureate fellows and underrepresented students entering medical schools.

She is on a mission to pioneer diagnostic methods to improve identification and treatment of diseases, deliver compassionate and equitable care, and shape the next generation of physicians through inclusive and innovative education.

Malavika Kannan (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

Stanford senior Malavika Kannan was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Central Florida in a tight-knit community of Indian immigrants, including her parents, who emigrated from South India. After completing her bachelor’s degree in comparative studies in race and ethnicity this year, she will pursue a Master of Fine Arts in fiction.

Growing up, Kannan became increasingly aware of the impacts of gun violence, police violence, and racism on her community. In high school, she and her classmates organized a school-wide walkout against gun violence. Kannan also worked with such organizations as March For Our Lives, the Women’s March, and Giffords.

Kannan’s experiences as an organizer influenced her writing, an art form she views as inherently political, imaginative, and community oriented. Her writing on identity, culture, and politics has appeared in The Washington Post , Teen Vogue , Refinery29 , and San Francisco Chronicle . She’s also the author of the young adult novel All the Yellow Suns . She intends to become a novelist and professor of literature.

James Occean (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

James Occean was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and immigrated to the U.S. at age 10. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in bioinformatics at Johns Hopkins University. This fall, he will begin a PhD program in cancer biology at Stanford, supported by the fellowship.

Occean earned a BS in biomedical sciences from the University of South Florida, where he was a first-generation college student. There, he conducted epidemiological research to identify predictors and risk factors for intimate partner violence among women in his native country. He also researched how trauma exposure increases susceptibility to psychiatric disorders and studied genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that underlie post-traumatic stress disorder.

After college, Occean earned a postbaccalaureate fellowship at the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health. In Payel Sen’s lab, he investigated how changes in epigenetic modifications and chromatin drive mammalian aging and related decline. He also contributed to several peer-reviewed publications, secured over $140,000 in research grants for his work on DNA hydroxymethylation, and received the Early Career Scholar award from the American Aging Association.

Akshay Swaminathan (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

Akshay Swaminathan was born in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, to immigrants from Tamil Nadu, India. At Stanford, he is an MD candidate and is pursuing a PhD in biomedical data science. He is also a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.

After finding an online community of polyglots in high school, Swaminathan developed pedagogical techniques that helped him learn over 10 languages. At Harvard College, he used languages to connect with and serve others. He was executive director of Refresh Bolivia, a global health nonprofit, where he helped build a primary health care clinic serving Indigenous residents in Cochabamba. He led Harvard Chinatown ESL, a program offering free English classes to adult Chinese immigrants. He also published five textbooks to teach English to Chinese speakers. He is the founder of Start Speaking, which helps language learners improve fluency.

As a data scientist, Swaminathan builds data-driven tools for patients, clinicians, and policymakers. At Flatiron Health, he developed methods to analyze observational clinical data to support FDA decision-making. At the virtual mental health company Cerebral, he helped deploy a suicide detection system that served over 500,000 patients across the U.S.

At Stanford, Swaminathan is developing approaches to safely and effectively use artificial intelligence to deliver health care. He plans to become a physician, combining data science and medicine to strengthen health systems in low-resource areas.

Evelyn Wong (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

Evelyn Wong was born in East Los Angeles, California, to Teochew-Vietnamese refugees. At Stanford, she is pursuing an MD/PhD in biophysics and is a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.

A first-generation college student, Wong graduated from Harvard University, where she studied neuroscience and Spanish literature. As an undergraduate, she received the Herchel Smith Fellowship for her thesis project at the MIT McGovern Institute, developing a next-generation protein sequencing platform. Beyond academics, she mentored young refugees in Boston and worked in free clinics serving undocumented and recently incarcerated individuals. She founded the nonprofit CovEducation, which provides programs and services to bridge academic achievement gaps. As a Marshall Scholar, Wong earned an MPhil from the Division of Medicine at University College London, where she optimized existing neurotechnologies to understand cortical brain function.

At Stanford she is developing flexible electrodes to record neural signals from deep, hard-to-reach structures in the mammalian brain. She is a co-director of the Stanford Asylum Collaborative, providing medical and psychological evaluations to support individuals seeking asylum in the United States. Wong aspires to a career as a physician-neuroengineer, working at the intersection of asylee health and neurotechnology to tackle technical and structural barriers to neuropsychiatric care.

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2024-2025 Graduate Community Engaged Teaching (CET) Fellowship

Graduate Community Engaged Teaching (CET) Fellowship 2024-25 Haas Center for Public Service, in partnership with Stanford Summer Session

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The Haas Center for Public Service's new Graduate Community Engaged Teaching (CET) Fellowship provides Stanford graduate students with the opportunity to receive support and training to develop, design, and teach a community-engaged learning (CEL) course in their area of expertise or interest that may be offered during the 2025 Stanford Summer Session. 

Often called “service learning,” CEL courses combine learning goals and community engagement to both enhance student learning and contribute to the common good. At Stanford, these are referred to as  Cardinal Courses.  

Graduate students selected as CET Fellows will receive support from the Haas Center’s Community Engaged Learning and Research (CELR) team and join an interdisciplinary cohort of graduate student peers to develop and propose a course for Stanford Summer Session 2025. During the spring and summer 2024, fellows will meet monthly to engage in course design and community partnership development activities, with the goal of transforming their idea for a CEL course into a proposal to be submitted to Summer Session in mid-November 2024. Fellows whose courses are approved will continue to work together in the winter and spring 2025 quarters, meeting monthly to fine tune their syllabi in terms of pedagogy, course content, and community partnership activities. Fellows may teach the course during Stanford’s 2025 Summer Session. 

After the teaching experience, Fellows will be encouraged to contribute to the campus and/or broader field of community engaged scholarship through a presentation about their CEL teaching experience. (Fellows may request some level of support to present their experiences at a relevant conference.)

Program Goals: 

Establish a cohort of graduate students interested in developing a CEL course an area of expertise or interest 

Provide opportunities for graduate student participants to teach a CEL course during Stanford Summer Session 2025  

Introduce Fellows to potential community partners for their course

Provide a space for facilitated discussions, including:

CEL course design fundamentals

How to prepare undergraduate students for ethical and effective community engagement

How to build reciprocal community partner relationships

How to develop relevant student learning goals and objectives

How to assess student learning and evaluate course outcomes

Provide individualized mentoring and consultation to participants on an ongoing basis

Encourage graduate scholarship on community engaged learning and teaching 

Note: Participation in the Fellowship program does not guarantee approval to teach a Summer Session in the fellow's area of interest and expertise. However, the Haas Center and Stanford Summer Session will work together with fellows to explore and identify relevant departments and programs that are offering, or willing to offer, Cardinal Courses taught by graduate students. Should the opportunity to teach during Summer Session not come to fruition, Haas Center will also work with Fellows to identify and explore other potential opportunities to facilitate CEL experiences, including teaching assistantships that may come available during the summer and/or throughout the academic year. All fellows will still leave the Fellowship program with a well-developed course idea and syllabus and enhanced competencies and tools to facilitate community-engaged teaching and learning experiences.  

To be eligible to apply, you must be:

A Stanford doctoral or MA/MS student in any department or program who will be enrolled through summer 2025 

Postdoctoral fellow at Stanford serving through summer 2025 '

Fellowship Requirements

Conceptualize, develop, and design a course (or redesign an existing Stanford course) with the intention to teach it as a Cardinal Course during the 2025 Summer Session.\

Participate in monthly cohort meetings during the spring, summer and fall 2024 quarters designed to support your development of a high-quality, community-engaged learning course (facilitated by Haas Center and Center for Teaching & Learning [CTL] staff)

If course is approved by Summer Session in November 2024, continue to participate in monthly cohort meetings through spring quarter 2025 while continuing to work on the development of one’s Cardinal Course 

Financial support 

Fellows who complete the full program will receive a stipend of $3,000 ($1,500 provided in summer 2024 and $1,500 in spring 2025) to offset costs/expenses associated with CEL course preparation and professional development training. In addition to the $3,000 stipend, 

Stanford Summer Session provides compensation for teaching summer session courses at rates set by the university, offering both salary and teaching allowance

Students approved to teach a Summer Session course are eligible to apply for a  Cardinal Course grant  of up to $4,000 for course-related expenses.

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HOW TO APPLY

Applications for the Graduate CET Fellowship open on April 25, 2024. Applications are due on May 17, 2024. For additional information, please contact Clayton Hurd at [email protected] .

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AI can apparently predict a person's political stance just by reading their face

That's according to a new study authored by researchers at the graduate school of business at stanford university.

A study recently published in the peer-reviewed American Psychologist journal claims that a combination of facial recognition and artificial intelligence technology can accurately assess a person’s political orientation by simply looking at that person’s blank, expressionless face.

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The study was authored by researchers at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Researchers write that, prior to the experiment, they had 591 participants answer a political questionnaire that provided insights into their political beliefs. Those same participants were then scanned by researchers’ AI algorithm, which attempted to assess where they fell on the political spectrum. The algorithm could generally tell what a person’s political orientation was with a high degree of accuracy, even when that person’s identity was “decorrelated with age, gender, and ethnicity,” researchers write. The “algorithm’s predictive accuracy was even higher” when it had access to “participants’ age, gender, and ethnicity,” researchers write. The levels of accuracy were broken down in different situations and expressed in formulas, but the researchers summarized it as being “on par with how well job interviews predict job success, or alcohol drives aggressiveness.”

Prior to this experiment, researchers studied the “differences between average facial outlines” of the “most liberal and most conservative males and females” and integrated this research into their analysis. According to this analysis—and, I have to warn you, it’s kinda funny—liberals and conservatives have markedly different facial morphology. Liberals have “smaller lower faces” and “lips and noses [that] are shifted downward,” and chins that “are smaller” than conservatives, researchers write. Researchers repeat the key conclusion later on: “liberals tended to have smaller faces.”

So, according to this theory, if you have a tiny face, you’re probably a progressive. Or, by contrast, if you have a big fat face, there’s a good chance you might be a Trump voter. Face/head is destiny, apparently. Researchers justify this assessment by pointing to the ways in which social expectations relative to physical appearances can influence personality development:

...facial appearance can shape psychological traits...People largely agree when judging political orientation from faces (Todorov et al., 2015). Regardless of whether such judgments are accurate, the self-fulfilling prophecy effect (Merton, 1936) postulates that people perceived as having a particular attribute are treated accordingly; internalize such attributions; and, over time, may engage in behaviors consistent with others’ perceptions (Slepian & Ames, 2016). For example, people with larger jaws, often perceived as more socially dominant (a trait associated with political conservatism), might over time become more so.

Once researchers had established this alleged correlation between specific facial morphologies and political orientations, they could create a database of faces that fall into those distinct categories and test their facial recognition algorithm to see if it could accurately predict which faces were correlated with specific political orientations. According to them, it worked.

“We demonstrate that political orientation can be predicted from neutral facial images by both humans and algorithms, even when factors like age, gender, and ethnicity are accounted for. This indicates a connection between political leanings and inherent facial characteristics, which are largely beyond an individual’s control,” the study claims.

Researchers went on to say, “Most crucially, our findings suggest that widespread biometric surveillance technologies are more threatening than previously thought.” Especially in the case of targeting political messaging online, the ability of AI to guess a person’s political orientation could be very valuable.

So, in conclusion: If your face is large, you’re a conservative; if it’s skinny, you’re a liberal; and facial recognition is bad—we all know that. That seems to be all you need to know.

A version of this article originally appeared on Gizmodo .

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Berkeley, California — You might not expect a business school course to begin with students belting out Taylor Swift's "Cruel Summer," but at the University of California, Berkeley, Swift is not just a " tortured poet ," she's a case study in how to build an empire.

"Taylor Swift is a phenomenon," UC Berkeley senior Sejal Krishnan, a chemical engineering major, told CBS News. " Her tour has essentially revitalized so much of the economy and boosted the local economy everywhere she goes."

Undergrads Sofia Lendahl and Miaad Bushala teach Artistry and Entrepreneurship: Taylor's Version to 44 fellow students.

"Taylor is so strategic in all the things that she does," Bushala said. "When you think of a brand, that's all they ever want. They want loyal customers. And that's what Taylor has."

"There's a reason top institutions are studying that," Krishnan added. "They know it's a trend."

Along with UC Berkeley, several universities nationwide — including Harvard and Stanford — are offering classes on the so-called "Swift Effect" in departments ranging from English to political science and gender studies.

Swift's successes and failures, including the battle to  regain control  of her master recordings, are part of the syllabus at UC Berkeley.

"We've also learned about some of the implications she's had on legal issues, such as artist rights and ticketing legislation, which has been really impactful as well, because that's not something you see every day," said student Will Grischo, who is majoring in media studies and art history.

When asked how their families reacted to them taking a course on Taylor Swift?

"My parents were super thrilled," Krishnan said. "My mom took me to the 1989 concert."    

"They (my parents) were like, 'You have to take this class, if it's not now, never,'" said student Jessica Revolorio, a sociology major who is the first in her family to attend college in the U.S.

And Swift now has some students thinking even bigger.

"She's incredibly fearless in the ways in which she doesn't mind taking creative risks," said student Angelique Zoile, who is studying business. "To me it's like, climb the corporate ladder...I'll end up as a manager in five years or so." 

Zoile said she is more ready to take career risks because of this Swift-inspired class. 

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Jo Ling Kent is a senior business and technology correspondent for CBS News.

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