Public Management and Social Innovation Program for MBA/Sloan Students

Public Management Program themes and values

There is a social innovator in you

Know it

Experience it

Be it

The Public Management and Social Innovation Programs (PM/SI) educate leaders to lead global social and environmental change.

The certificate program provides students the opportunity to focus their educational efforts in domain areas such as environment, international development, healthcare and education. They can also shape their academic efforts in approaches to social impact such as corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, nonprofit management or government.

Our students leave the GSB prepared to become:

Corporate executives transforming large industries from within
Government leaders who can bridge the public and private worlds
Social entrepreneurs leveraging markets and business for the greater good
Effective nonprofit executives and board members
Skillful advocates moving the social and environmental agenda forward
Active volunteers

In their own words


Jake Harriman MBA '08		Ann Bordetsky MBA '09	Rob Bland MBA '08
	"I went to business school to start a social venture to fight extreme poverty in Africa. I needed to go somewhere that valued social innovation and entrepreneurship. ... Stanford stood out way ahead of its peers in those two categories."	"I decided to come to Stanford because I felt that the future of environmental activity—the energy and climate challenges that we face—was going to be resolved, not just in a policy arena, but in a business arena as well."	I was involved in several service opportunities with the PM/SI. That is one of the things that will have the most lasting impact on how I think about the world and make personal decisions about what my life mission will be.”