Economics
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The Economics area leads the way business schools develop and apply economic reasoning to management through research, teaching, and curriculum development. Its world-renowned faculty members are engaged in cutting-edge research to develop and test new economic principles and to apply them to a variety of business fields and to public policy.
Economic principles are brought to bear in most areas of management. These include the strategic management of organizations, organizational design and incentives, human resource management, global management, decision-making, and entrepreneurship. In these and other areas GSB economists have pioneered new approaches, often working with colleagues in other disciplines, to produce research papers, textbooks, and curricula that provide the foundation for management education at Stanford and elsewhere.
The rigorous application of economic principles permeates the MBA, Sloan, and executive education curricula. The Economics area extends its impact beyond Stanford through publishing, by educating PhD students, and by influencing public policy.
Faculty
C. Lanier Benkard, Professor
Renee Bowen, Assistant Professor
Nicholas Bloom, Associate Professor (by courtesy)
Timothy Bresnahan, Professor (by courtesy)
Jeremy I. Bulow, Professor
Yossi Feinberg, Professor
Robert J. Flanagan, Professor Emeritus
Keith B. Hennessey, Lecturer
James E. Howell, Professor Emeritus
Charles I. Jones, Professor
David M. Kreps, Professor
Nicolas Lambert , Assistant Professor
Edward Lazear, Professor
Jonathan Levin, Professor (by courtesy)
David Lockwood, Lecturer
Gerald Meier, Professor Emeritus
Paul R. Milgrom, Professor (by courtesy)
Michael Ostrovsky, Associate Professor
Paul Oyer, Professor
Mar Reguant, Assistant Professor
Peter C. Reiss, Professor
John Roberts, Professor
Garth Saloner, Dean
Kathryn Shaw, Professor
Andrzej Skrzypacz, Professor
A. Michael Spence, Professor and Dean Emeritus
Myra H. Strober, Professor Emerita (School of Education)
John M. Van Reenen, Visiting Professor
Robert Wilson, Professor Emeritus
Ali Yurukoglu, Assistant Professor
MBA and Sloan Programs
Courses
- MBA and Sloan Electives: Economics
- MBA General Management Perspectives
- MBA General Management Foundations
PhD Program
Courses
Seminars