About the Stanford Graduate School of Business
Who We Are
The Stanford Graduate School of Business has built an international reputation based on its innovative programs, which include:
- Two-year MBA Program, designed to educate business leaders
- One-year Stanford Sloan Master’s Program for mid-career executives
- PhD Program for future academics
- Executive Education programs for experienced managers
- Faculty research program
Academic programs, including the two-year MBA, the 12-month Sloan Master's Program, and the PhD program, create a transformational student experience that reflects the tagline: Change lives. Change organizations. Change the world.
Today the state-of-the-art Knight Management Center complex enables Stanford's innovative, globalized MBA curriculum, offering flexible classroom spaces for hands-on experiential learning small-group leadership labs, and team-based learning. It engages faculty and students across Stanford University, as well as alumni, global executives, and the broader world community.
Our Mission
Our mission is to create ideas that deepen and advance our understanding of management and with those ideas to develop innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who change the world.
We Create the Future
Rapid change in our world and in managed organizations demands a focus on preparing for the future. The Stanford Graduate School of Business produces leaders and ideas that empower and improve organizations.
Curriculum
Designed to transform by expanding ideas, knowledge, and capabilities necessary to lead, achieve and change the world.
Collaboration
Peers from vastly different backgrounds and interests collaborate and produce ideas for today's fast changing world.
GSB Leadership
By creating ideas deepening and advancing our understanding of management, we develop innovative, principled, and insightful leaders.