Throughout the academic year, various speakers make presentations about leadership, hold extended discussions, and meet informally with Sloan Fellows at receptions and dinners. There are additional opportunities to hear speakers who address the entire Business School community on a host of topics and take part in student-run panel discussions and conferences.

Stanford GSB Speakers

In addition to programs specifically for Sloans, you will have the chance to interact with the constant flow of visitors invited to the Graduate School of Business School or who visit the Stanford campus. Recent speakers at the GSB included:

Gavin Newsome
Lieutenant Governor
State of California

Lord John Browne
Former Group Chief Executive
BP Amoco, p.l.c.

Tim Draper
Founder and Managing Director
Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Donna Dubinsky
Cofounder
Handspring

Jorma Ollila
Chairman and CEO
Nokia

Jose Ramos-Horta
Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
and Foreign Minister, East Timor

Jack Welch
Former Chairman & CEO
General Electric

Meg Whitman
Chief Executive Officer and President
Hewlett-Packard Company

Sloan Top Management Seminars

Each year an impressive array of top level leaders from government, industry, and the nonprofit sector come to the Sloan classroom to talk about leadership with the Sloan Fellows. Recent speakers included:

John Chen
Chairman, CEO and President
Sybase

Chip Conley
Founder and CEO
Joie de Vivre Hospitality

Susan Desmond-Hellman
Chancellor, University of California
San Francisco

Aart de Geus
Chairman and CEO
Synopsys

Charles Griffith
Managing Partner & Executive Director
Arcapita

John Hennessy
President
Stanford University

Pat House
Co-Founder
Siebel Systems

Robert Joss
Dean, Emeritus
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Mark Leslie
Founding Chairman and CEO
Veritas Software

Michael McCaffrey
Founder & CEO
Makena Capital Management

Marco Milani
CEO
Indesit

Narayana N.R. Murthy
Chief Mentor
Infosys Technologies Limited

Yong Nam
CEO
LG Electronics

Youssef Nasr
Former President and CEO
HSBC USA

Krishnakumar Natarajan
CEO
MindTree Ltd.

Lynn Odland
CEO
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Australia

Jerry Porras
Co-Author of "Built to Last"
Professor Emeritus, Stanford GSB

Alejandro Ramirez
CEO
Cineopolis

Beth Seidenberg
Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

George Shultz
Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Former U.S. Secretary of State

Ray Webster
Chairman
EasyJet

Steve Westly
Managing Director, The Westly Group
Former Controller, State of California