Overview: Stanford Graduate School of Business is located in Stanford, California, U.S.A. The school is Private institute.
Establishment: Stanford Graduate School of Business was 1925 by Dean Willard Hotchkiss.
Specialty: The college is famously known for its MBA programme where only a selected few candidates make it through. The curriculum requires MBA students to take part in a global.....Continuing reading experience before earning their degree. Stanford has also been in the newspapers regularly owing to their excellent market research student board.
Campus: The school is a part of the Stanford University 8,000 acre campus located between San Francisco, San Jose, California in the heart of the silicon valley.
Study Centre: The study centre for Stanford GSB is known as “Knight Management centre”. It was named after Philip H. Knight, M.B.A. of class ’62, founder of Nike.
Hostel: The “Schwab center” is a convenient, attractive centre located at a walking distance from Stanford Graduate School of Business. It houses more than 200 full time students plus upto 60 executive Education participants. They are about three-four floor story apartments with quiet spaces, grassy areas with picturesque palm trees and beautiful ornamental trees. Residents have comfortable spacious rooms with ample study space, a private bathroom and a kitchen shared by only one other resident. It gives the residents an opportunity to relax while staying at a convenient distance from the university.
Infrastructure: The main study building is known as the ‘Knight Management centre”. It consists of 5 main buildings:
The Classrooms: The classrooms are naturally illuminated using the latest technology and are conducive to learning. The physical settings and the intellectual surroundings encourage experimentation.
The NGP CoLab: This is the common centre for all Stanford Schools, a glass walled space where students brainstorm and come up with innovative ideas.
Faculty Buildings and Bass Centre: The faculty building is the place where most of the one on one discussion with the faculty takes place. It is also the visitors office that help visitors proceed to take a tour of the college. The bass centre is the state of art library situated with digital and print resources available. The library also provides study space and meeting places that can take one’s breath away.
Arbuckle Dining Pavilion and Town Square: It is the dining pavilion that is Stanford’s favourite food centre. With cuisines from all over the world to artisan breads, this dining pavilion with bright lights and amazing décor provides for unwinding and intellectual conversations at times. The Town Square is mainly used for outdoor events.
CEMEX Auditorium and Oberndorf Event Centre: Previously, high profiled personalities like the CEO of Amazon, Ford, Skype, Siemens etc, experts on Cambodian genocide, political unrest in the middle east etc have all delivered their speeches to the lucky Stanford students in this very same hall. The centre is used for presentations, debates and deliberations.
Faculty: Stanford GSB enlists highly learned faculty members from different backgrounds and study areas. With over 150 impressive faculty members, Stanford ranks among the top prestigious colleges. Faculty members include Neil Malhotra, Dale Miller, Robert Sutton, John Van Reenen, Condoleezza Rice etc.
Accreditation: Stanford Graduate School of Business is accredited by the International Association for Management Education (also known as AACSB).....Reading in short