Kevin Cool

Nov 15, 2024 | gsb.stanford.edu | Mary Barra |Kevin Cool

Somewhere in Tanzania, a mother is cradling her premature newborn in a tiny sleeping bag that stays warm without electricity. In Kansas City, a neighborhood has remained intact, and rents have been kept in check, thanks to a new investment product that enables residents to cooperatively own and operate properties. Across Brazil, farmers are being paid through carbon credits to plant trees on pastureland, a novel approach to carbon removal.

Nov 1, 2024 | gsb.stanford.edu | Kevin Cool

George Foster was an assistant professor of accounting at the University of Chicago on leave in Australia when he got a phone call from William Beaver, Foster’s former teacher and mentor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. “He was offering to write me a recommendation for a promotion, but he said, ‘What I’d prefer is that you come back here to the GSB and be my colleague,’” Foster recalls.

Aug 14, 2024 | gsb.stanford.edu | Kevin Cool

Learning to TalkThree GSB professors share their tips for constructive classroom discussions. Good faith: Saumitra Jha, an associate professor of political economy, encourages his students to assume best intentions as their classmates explore ideas that may be unformed or express views that may land awkwardly. Early in his course Managing Politically Conflictual Environments, he told his students, “I’m going to misspeak from time to time.

Aug 14, 2024 | gsb.stanford.edu | Kevin Cool

Erin Nixon, MBA ’10, and team will look for “principled, innovative leaders.” Erin Nixon’s friends have taken to referring to her as a “triple dipper,” a nod toward the fact that Nixon is returning to Stanford for a third time. Having earned both her undergraduate and MBA degrees on the Farm, Nixon arrived in July as the new assistant dean for admissions at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Feb 8, 2024 | gsb.stanford.edu | Kevin Cool

Nearly 300 Stanford GSB students discovered a learning opportunity recently that didn’t appear in any of their pre-admittance readings about the school. In six one-hour evening sessions, GSB faculty discussed their current research, took questions from students, and joined them for a few bites of pizza in an informal new program called Insights and Bites.