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Sustainability Strategies: Develop Initiatives to Transform Your Business

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Program fee, us$2,800 us$2,492, sustainability leadership starts with you.

A survey of recent headlines and research reports reveals the ways that consumers, employees, investors, and other stakeholders are using their influence to demand solutions to our global climate crisis. The majority of business leaders have sustainability on their radar, but what do sustainability initiatives look like in practice, and how can we make progress when the challenges seem insurmountable?

of S&P 500 organizations publish ESG reports in some form, as do approximately 70 percent of Russell 1000 organizations.

(SOURCE: MCKINSEY SUSTAINABILITY) August, 2022

of millennials consider an organization’s social and environmental commitments when deciding where to work.

(SOURCE: DELOITTE) May, 2022

of global consumers are willing to pay higher-than-average prices for products made with sustainable materials, and demand for sustainable products is expected to grow exponentially in emerging markets.

Key Takeaways

• Develop an understanding of the impacts and root causes of climate change to communicate the value of sustainable business practices to key stakeholders.
• Learn to identify business opportunities that arise by transitioning to an environmentally sustainable organization.
• Understand the interdependence between innovation and sustainability as a guiding force for developing your own sustainability initiatives.
• Develop a proactive mindset to lead change effectively, with an eye toward positioning the organization as an agent of change.

This Program Is Ideal for Professionals and Leaders Who Are:

Building strategies that move the needle on sustainability efforts within their organizations or industries

Developing and communicating the vision and value of a sustainable business future

Striving to be on the leading edge of environmental sustainability or transitioning from a legacy business model to a more innovative approach to business

Driving strategies at the business unit or organizational level, where maintaining a competitive advantage is critical

Program modules.

• Develop your understanding of the climate challenges at hand and key terminology, including the carbon cycle, energy buildup, tipping points, and cumulative emissions.
• Reflect on how climate change is impacting your organization and what you can learn from your competitors.
• Make a pitch for sustainability as part of a communication exercise.
• Understand the components of a business model using the business model architecture framework.
• Examine Tesla’s business model as part of a case study deep dive.
• Explore where your business model intersects with sustainability issues and identify opportunities.
• Learn how Little’s law—a numerical theorem—is applied to understanding circular economies and their relationship to the value chain. Map your organization’s value chain in relation to sustainability.
• Propose short and long-term actions that impact your organization's value chain as it relates to climate change.
• Identify opportunities to lead sustainability change at any level of your organization and learn how to become an agent of change.
• Understand how leadership can be leveraged to support and grow sustainability goals across the organization.
• Explore the interdependency between innovation and accomplishing sustainability goals.
• Understand the role of leadership in managing the risks associated with change.
• Examine several use cases, including Toyota Prius, Boeing 787, and Tesla, using the DICE framework—a unified framework for business model innovation.
• Analyze the impacts of political risks from private political groups, such as nongovernmental organizations, individual activists, and the media, using Citigroup's case study as a practical example.
• Investigate the influence of location-based political risks on business decision making through Tata Motors' case.
• Apply practical tools to mitigate and manage political risks in various business contexts.
• Utilize a structured framework to systematically assess the responses of various interest groups to environmental policies.
• Examine the intricacies of global environmental policy development and implementation and evaluate an organization's existing sustainability strategy.
• Use the triple bottom line framework to measure, evaluate, and communicate sustainability performance for your organization.
• Analyze sustainability-related strategic performance and how it relates to your organization’s value creation activities and create your action plan for sustainability.

Program Walk-Through

Access to Stanford Graduate School of Business proprietary strategy tools and frameworks

Manageable time investment (four to six hours/week)

Live sessions with faculty

Assignments for you to apply learnings to your own role or industry

Networking with global peers

Featured case study and cross-industry examples

Feedback on assignments to ensure the relevance of the program material

Certificate of completion from Stanford Graduate School of Business

Featured Program Elements

Capstone project designed to jump-start your sustainability efforts

Create an action plan that will positively impact sustainability in your organization. Using your weekly workbook exercises, you will identify your priorities based on where you can make an immediate difference for your organization.

Original strategic frameworks and tools from Stanford faculty

The proprietary frameworks are tools that help leaders support an organization's value chain and become efficient in leading sustainability initiatives and driving business change.

Featured case studies

Gain insights from Tesla, Lego, General Motors, and Citigroup’s business models and other successful businesses through case studies.

Testimonials

“I appreciated the way each module was shown as part of a bigger theme and how the concepts built on top of and across each other to provide a wide understanding of sustainability from different angles. The required workbooks and the capstone project helped put everything together.” — Nadia Szeinbaum, Innovation Scientist at Beyond Meat

“The program content was taught by faculty with impressive expertise and a diversity of teaching methods that helped us to learn new concepts and immediately put them into practice.” — Marco Luchsinger, MBA Candidate

“The module workbooks really forced me to think deeply about my organization.” — Andrea Wong, board member at Liberty Media

Meet the Faculty

William Barnett

The Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations

Chris Field

The Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University

Saumitra Jha

Associate Professor of Political Economy

Haim Mendelson

The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Professor of Electronic Business and Commerce, and Management

Joseph Piotroski

The Robert K. Jaedicke Professor of Accounting

Erica Plambeck

The Charles A. Holloway Professor of Operations, Information and Technology

Stefanos Zenios

The Investment Group of Santa Barbara Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Operations, Information & Technology

William Barnett The Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations

Chris Field The Perry L. McCarty Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University

Saumitra Jha Associate Professor of Political Economy

Haim Mendelson The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Professor of Electronic Business and Commerce, and Management

Joseph Piotroski The Robert K. Jaedicke Professor of Accounting

Erica Plambeck The Charles A. Holloway Professor of Operations, Information and Technology

Stefanos Zenios The Investment Group of Santa Barbara Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Operations, Information & Technology

Certificate

Upon completion of this program, you will receive a certificate of completion from Stanford Graduate School of Business that you can share with your professional network.

How do I know if this program is right for me?

After reviewing the information on the program landing page, we recommend that you submit the short form above to gain access to the program brochure, which includes more in-depth information. If you still have questions on whether this program is a good fit for you, please email [email protected] , and a dedicated program advisor will follow up with you very shortly.

Are there any prerequisites for this program?

Participants must be 18 years old or above to apply to this program. Some programs do have prerequisites, particularly the more technical ones. This information will be noted on the program landing page and in the program brochure. If you are uncertain about program prerequisites and your capabilities, please email us at [email protected] for assistance.

Note that, unless otherwise stated on the program web page, all programs are taught in English, and proficiency in English is required..

What is the typical class profile?

More than 50 percent of our participants are from outside the United States. Class profiles vary from one cohort to the next, but, generally, our online certificates draw a highly diverse audience in terms of professional experience, industry, and geography—leading to a very rich peer learning and networking experience.

At what other dates will this program be offered in the future?

Check back to this program web page or email us at [email protected] to inquire whether future program dates or the timeline for future offerings has been confirmed.

How much time is required each week?

Each program includes an estimated learner effort per week. This is referenced at the top of the program landing page under the Duration section as well as in the program brochure, which you can obtain by submitting the short form at the top of this web page.

How will my time be spent?

We have designed this program to fit into your current working life as efficiently as possible. Time will be spent among a variety of activities, including:

• Engaging with recorded video lectures from faculty
• Attending webinars and office hours as per the specific program schedule
• Reading or engaging with examples of core topics
• Completing knowledge checks/quizzes and required activities
• Engaging in moderated discussion groups with your peers
• Completing your final project, if required

The program is designed to be highly interactive while also allowing time for self-reflection and demonstrating an understanding of the core topics through various active learning exercises. Please contact us at [email protected] if you need further clarification on program activities.

A dedicated program support team is available 24/5 (Monday to Friday) to answer questions about the learning platform, technical issues, or anything else that may affect your learning experience.

How do I interact with other program participants?

Peer learning adds substantially to the overall learning experience and is an important part of the program. You can connect and communicate with other participants through our learning platform.

What are the requirements to earn the certificate?

Each program includes an estimated learner effort per week, so you can gauge what will be required before you enroll. This is referenced at the top of the program landing page under the Duration section as well as in the program brochure, which you can obtain by submitting the short form at the top of this web page. All programs are designed to fit into your working life. This program is scored as a pass or no pass; participants must complete the required activities to pass and obtain the certificate of completion. Some programs include a final project submission or other assignments to obtain passing status. This information will be noted in the program brochure. Please contact us at [email protected] if you need further clarification on any specific program requirements.

What type of certificate will I receive?

Upon successful completion of the program, you will receive a smart digital certificate. The smart digital certificate can be shared with friends, family, schools, or potential employers. You can use it on your cover letter or resume or display it on your LinkedIn profile. The digital certificate will be sent approximately two weeks after the program end date, once grading is complete.

Can I get a the hard copy of the certificate?

No, only verified digital certificates will be issued upon successful completion. This allows you to share your credentials on social platforms, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

Do I receive alumni status after completing this program?

No, there is no alumni status granted for this program. In some cases, there are credits that count toward a higher level of certification. This information will be clearly noted in the program brochure.

How long will I have access to the learning materials?

You will have access to the online learning platform and all the videos and program materials for 12 months following the program start date . Access to the learning platform is restricted to registered participants as per the terms of the agreement.

What equipment or technical requirements are there for this program?

Participants will need the latest version of their preferred browser to access the learning platform. In addition, Microsoft Office and a PDF viewer are required to access documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF files, and transcripts.

Do I need to be online to access the program content?

Yes, the learning platform is accessed via the internet, and video content is not available for download. However, you can download files of video transcripts, assignment templates, readings, etc. For maximum flexibility, you can access program content from a desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile device. Video lectures must be streamed via the internet, and any live stream webinars and office hours will require an internet connection as well. However, these sessions are always recorded, so you may view them later.

Can I still register if the registration deadline has passed?

Yes, you can register up to seven days after the published start date of the program without missing any of the core program material or learnings.

What is the program fee, and what forms of payment do you accept?

The program fee is noted at the top of this program web page and is usually referenced in the program brochure as well. Flexible payment options are available (see details below as well as at the top of this program web page next to FEE).

What if I don’t have a credit card? Is there another method of payment accepted?

Yes, you can do a bank remittance in the program currency via wire transfer or debit card. Please contact your program advisor or email us at [email protected] for details.

I was not able to use the discount code provided. Can you help?

Yes! Please email us at [email protected] with the details of the program you are interested in, and we will assist you.

How can I obtain an invoice for payment?

Please email [email protected] with your invoicing requirements and the specific program you’re interested in enrolling in.

Is there an option to make flexible payments for this program?

Yes, the flexible payment option allows participants to pay the program fee in installments. This option is made available on the payment page and should be selected before submitting the payment.

How can I obtain a W9 form?

Please email us at [email protected] for assistance.

Who will be collecting the payment for the program?

Emeritus collects all program payments, provides learner enrollment and program support, and manages learning platform services.

What is the program refund and deferral policy?

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RAISE: Research, Action, and Impact through Strategic Engagement Doctoral Fellowship

Fellowships & Funding

Click below to learn more about RAISE and our students!

The RAISE (Research, Action, and Impact through Strategic Engagement) Doctoral Fellowship Program supports doctoral students who are motivated to make positive contributions to their communities and the world. In alignment with Stanford’s commitment to purposeful engagement and impact, the RAISE Doctoral Fellowship provides students with funding to support experiential learning opportunities, coupled with cohort-based skills training and community building to better engage communities and create social change. 

In its pilot phase, the RAISE Doctoral Fellowship will support cohorts of twenty students per year. First and second year students enrolled in a doctoral degree program in all seven schools are eligible to apply. Projects can be either related to students' dissertations or a separate community engaged project that is not related to research. RAISE Fellows will be selected each Spring Quarter to begin their fellowship in the fall of the following year.

The RAISE Doctoral Fellowship includes:

Stipend and graduate tuition (8-10 units or TGR) for 1 quarter for each of the three years, for a total of 3 quarters of fellowship support

$9,000 in project funding to help cover travel and expenses related to the experiential learning component of RAISE

Structured workshops to support community-engaged and impact-focused projects and research

Professional development to prepare doctoral students for community and public impact in their career choices

Cohort-based community building and support

Choice to earn course credits through RAISE project work

Additional mentorship from the RAISE Doctoral Fellowship Director, Stanford faculty mentors, advanced graduate student mentors, and alumni

In addition to VPGE, key campus partners in the development and implementation of the RAISE Doctoral Fellowship include the Haas Center for Public Service and Stanford Impact Labs . Read the RAISE Doctoral Fellowship announcement in the Stanford Report.

Read more  Application Information  and get your questions answered with these  Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) .

Nominations Process:

Applications are sought from doctoral students in Stanford’s seven schools who will be entering their second or third year of their doctoral program in the fall quarter after applying. 

Application Opens : January 17, 2024

Application Deadline : April 1, 2024

Applicants are responsible for ensuring that all materials are submitted before the deadline. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Award Notifications : May 2024

Prospective applicants are encouraged to attend an informational session in winter quarter to learn about the RAISE Doctoral Fellowship’s goals and expectations, the application process, and selection criteria.

Informational session details are below in events.

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For any additional questions, contact [email protected] .

Welcome to Graduate Admissions

Learn about university-wide admission requirements and processes for MA, MS, PhD, and other non-professional graduate programs.

Your Starting Point for Graduate Study at Stanford

Browse this website to learn about university-wide requirements and processes for admission to MA, MS, PhD, and other non-professional graduate programs in the following Stanford schools:

Graduate School of Education | School of Engineering | School of Humanities & Sciences | School of Medicine | Doerr School of Sustainability

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The professional schools have separate admissions offices and applications. Visit their websites below for information about applying to their graduate programs.

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• School of Law: JD | Advanced Degrees
• School of Medicine: MD | MS in Physician Assistant Studies

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Consider joining Stanford’s globally diverse graduate community of 9,300 students.

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PhD Career Placement

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PhD graduates of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford have obtained global career opportunities.

Graduates have taken positions with a wide range of organizations that include high-tech businesses, government agencies, nonprofits, and academic institutions (see list below).  In the last five years, 60% have gone into industry, 2% into government agencies, and 38% into academia.  Common job titles include: assistant professor, associate, data scientist, postdoc, quantitative researcher, research scientist, senior analyst, senior software engineer, and technical product manager.

Recent graduates have found employment at:

• Airforce Ventures
• Bain & Company
• Bayes Business School, City, University of London
• BlackRock, Inc
• Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
• Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business
• Chainlink Labs
• Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School
• City University of Hong Kong Department of Marketing
• Columbia University Business School
• Council on Foreign Relations
• DiDi Autonomous Driving
• Electronic Arts
• Emory University Quantitative Theory and Methods
• Esterline AVISTA Engineering Services
• Form Energy
• George Washington University Department of Computer Science
• Granthika Co
• Harvard University Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications
• Harvard University Medical School
• Imperial College London Business School
• J.P. Morgan Chase
• Jump Operations
• McKinsey and Company
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• New York University Law School
• Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management
• Rand Corporation
• Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business
• Stanford University
• Two Sigma Investments
• United States Military Academy Department of Systems Engineering
• University of California Berkeley Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
• University of California San Francisco
• University of Chicago Booth School of Business
• University of Hong Kong Management and Strategy
• University of Pittsburgh Department of Industrial Engineering
• United States Air Force
• United States Digital Response
• Work Innovation Lab

Doctoral Program

The Ph.D. program is a full time program leading to a Doctoral Degree in Economics.  Students specialize in various fields within Economics by enrolling in field courses and attending field specific lunches and seminars.  Students gain economic breadth by taking additional distribution courses outside of their selected fields of interest.

General requirements

Students  are required to complete 1 quarter of teaching experience. Teaching experience includes teaching assistantships within the Economics department or another department .

University's residency requirement

135 units of full-tuition residency are required for PhD students. After that, a student should have completed all course work and must request Terminal Graduate Registration (TGR) status.

Department degree requirements and student checklist

1. core course requirement.

Required: Core Microeconomics (202-203-204) Core Macroeconomics (210-211-212) Econometrics (270-271-272).  The Business School graduate microeconomics class series may be substituted for the Econ Micro Core.  Students wishing to waive out of any of the first year core, based on previous coverage of at least 90% of the material,  must submit a waiver request to the DGS at least two weeks prior to the start of the quarter.  A separate waiver request must be submitted for each course you are requesting to waive.  The waiver request must include a transcript and a syllabus from the prior course(s) taken.  

2.  Field Requirements

Required:  Two of the Following Fields Chosen as Major Fields (click on link for specific field requirements).  Field sequences must be passed with an overall grade average of B or better.  Individual courses require a letter grade of B- or better to pass unless otherwise noted.

Research fields and field requirements :

• Behavioral & Experimental
• Development Economics
• Econometric Methods with Causal Inference
• Econometrics
• Economic History
• Environmental, Resource and Energy Economics
• Industrial Organization
• International Trade & Finance
• Labor Economics
• Market Design
• Microeconomic Theory
• Macroeconomics
• Political Economy
• Public Economics

3.  Distribution

Required:  Four other graduate-level courses must be completed. One of these must be from the area of economic history (unless that field has already been selected above). These courses must be distributed in such a way that at least two fields not selected above are represented.  Distribution courses must be passed with a grade of B or better.

4.  Field Seminars/Workshops

Required:  Three quarters of two different field seminars or six quarters of the same field seminar from the list below.   

MGTSC-PHD - Management Science and Engineering (PhD)

Program overview.

The PhD degree in MS&E is intended for students primarily interested in a career of research and teaching or high-level technical work in universities, industry, or government. The program requires three years of full-time graduate study, at least two years of which must be at Stanford. Typically, however, students take four to five years after entering the program to complete all PhD requirements. The PhD requires a minimum of 135 units, up to 45 units, which may be transferred from another graduate program. The PhD is organized around the expectation that the students acquire a certain breadth across all department areas and depth in one of them. The current areas are:

Computational Social Science

Decision and Risk Analysis

Operations Research

Organizations, Technology, and Entrepreneurship

Policy and Strategy

Quantitative Finance

Doctoral students are required to take a seminar in autumn quarter specifically designed for first-year students (breadth) and several specified courses in one of the areas of the department (depth). All courses used to satisfy depth requirements must be taken for a letter grade if the letter-graded option is available. Before candidacy, at least three units of work must be taken with each of four Stanford faculty members.

Each student admitted to the PhD program must pass an area qualification procedure. The qualification procedure aims to assess the student’s command of the field and evaluate their potential to complete a high-quality dissertation based on research that must make an original contribution to knowledge promptly.

Finally, the student must complete a PhD dissertation and pass a university oral examination, which is a defense of the dissertation. During the PhD program, students who do not have a master’s degree are strongly encouraged to complete one, either in MS&E or in another Stanford department.

Degree Progress and Student Responsibility

Each doctoral student’s progress is reviewed annually by the MS&E faculty. Typically, this occurs at a faculty meeting at the end of spring quarter, and an appropriate email notification is sent over the summer to the student and their advisor. The student is responsible for initiating each required step in completing the PhD program.

Annual Doctoral Student Degree and Career Progress Meeting (IDP)

Students are expected to meet annually with their advisors to take stock, set goals, and develop an action plan for the coming year.  This worksheet , endorsed by the Committee on Graduate Studies, can help facilitate such conversations. Please complete  this form  to let us know when you have completed each year’s discussion.

To maintain good standing in the degree program, first-year students must:

Complete 30 units, including the first-year seminar and doctoral courses taught by faculty in their research area

Develop relationships with faculty members who can serve as dissertation advisors or reading committee members. A faculty member is more likely to accept the responsibility of supervising the research of a student they know reasonably well than a student whose abilities, initiative, and originality the faculty member knows less well. It is recommended that students participate in research rotations with MS&E and related faculty to facilitate the development of these relationships.

To maintain good standing in the degree program, second-year students must:

Complete at least two one-quarter research rotations or tutorials, or one two-quarter research rotation, tutorial, or research paper, continuing to develop relationships with faculty members who might serve as dissertation advisors or reading committee members

Pass an area-qualifying exam or defense of the written paper(s)

Submit a candidacy form signed by at least one MS&E faculty member with whom they have or will complete research rotations, tutorials, or papers, and listing the course requirements agreed upon by both the student and the program advisor

Complete 30 units, including most, if not all, of the required courses listed on the candidacy form

Be advanced to candidacy by the faculty

To maintain good standing in the degree program, third-year students must:

Submit a progress form listing the dissertation topic and signed by the dissertation advisor (if the dissertation advisor is not an MS&E faculty member, the form must also be signed by an MS&E faculty member who agrees to be on the student’s reading committee, as well as the student’s point of contact within the department)

Complete 30 units, including any remaining depth courses.

To maintain good standing in the degree program, fourth-year students must:

Select a reading committee (a dissertation advisor and two readers) with at least one member from the student’s major department, and submit the reading committee form signed by each member of the reading committee

Make satisfactory progress on their dissertation as determined by their dissertation advisor

Complete 30 dissertation units (if the student has not transferred any previous graduate units to Stanford)

To maintain good standing in the degree program beyond the fourth year, students must make satisfactory progress on their dissertation as determined by their dissertation advisor and approved by the faculty. Indeed, the dissertation advisor will have to present the case to (and seek approval for the student’s good standing from) the faculty in the annual faculty meeting for student review. It should be noted that each student inherently has to pass the oral examination (see below) and submit their dissertation before their candidacy expires.

Additionally, students must perform well in all assistantship positions to remain in good standing and eligible for funding.

Any exceptional cases for a student to remain in good standing based on extenuating circumstances must be presented to and approved by the whole faculty.

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Brian reed (phd '23).

Quantifying and understanding. Brian discusses the value of multi-disciplinary work and how he has combined economics, computer science, and the natural sciences with MS&E to quantify the threats of extreme temperatures and flooding on the economic risks and prospects for companies in various industries, and how an understanding of these can inform mitigation efforts as well as create a competitive advantage.

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Isabelle Rao (PhD '23)

Impact and Meaning . Isabelle shares how her work examining major healthcare issues such as equitable vaccine allocation and the opioid epidemic from an operations research lens has been able to have an impact in decision making and policy development, and how she takes meaning from knowing how many lives can be saved. She also discusses her journey from childhood hours spent in her dads office at a major university to her continuing research career in academia.

Giovanni Malloy (PhD '22) 

Giovanni explains how his early experiences in computer science and math paved the way for his interest in engineering. That path led him to study infectious disease outbreaks as an undergraduate, which in turn positioned him to be at the forefront of COVID-19 research when the pandemic began. Giovanni also shares advice for current students and how he found work/life balance as a PhD student at Stanford.

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Hannah Li (PhD '22)

 Hannah shares how her desire to create impact for large numbers of people led her to study operations research. She describes her research on eliminating bias in algorithms driven by artificial intelligence, how she blends the study of technical systems with the study of the people involved with those systems, and her plans to continue in academia as a professor at Columbia Business School.

Anneke Claypool (PhD '21)

Anneke shares how serving in the Peace Corps teaching high school mathematics led to her area research. While teaching overseas, she noticed healthcare problems, such as Malaria, directly affecting her students' attendance. After that experience, she decided to apply her mathematics background to the healthcare system. Anneke's research focuses on infectious disease modeling and policies while incorporating cost-effective analysis. Anneke also shares stories about her time at Stanford and her plans for the future.

Wanyi Li (PhD '21)

Wanyi shares how listening to an episode of the Freakonomics podcast series featuring Al Roth led her to pursue a PhD in MS&E. Wanyi came to Stanford to study operations research focused on economic systems and environmental sustainability. While at Stanford, she started asking questions about how governments and nonprofits incentivized people to protect and conserve the environment. Wanyi also shares stories about her time at Stanford and her plans for the future.

Eric Volmar (PhD '21)

Eric shares with us his research on mission-driven organizations, and how entrepreneurs can be successful while doing good for society. He also shares stories about his time at Stanford and in the MS&E program.

Robert Bremner (PhD '20)

Rob shares with us his research focus in Organization and Strategy, and he takes us in-depth into his research where he studied how to improve the innovation process, particularly in the gaming industry. He also shares stories about his time at Stanford and in the MS&E program.

Ali Shameli (PhD '20)

Ali’s research focus is in the area of Operation Research. He helps define his research area and how it has extended beyond MS&E with collaboration in the CS and Econ departments at Stanford. He shares his thought process for choosing the MS&E program and describes it as being the perfect blend between theory and application.

Travis Trammell III (PhD '20)

Travis shares with us his research focus in Decision Risk Analysis, and what led him to his research topic for his dissertation. Travis leads us in-depth into his research where he studied fake news by using the quantitative method to examine it’s spread on online platforms, as well as potential counters that both government and industry could use in an effort to stop the spread of disinformation. Travis also shares the impact and stories about his time at Stanford and in the MS&E program.

Heiko Pieper

"It's the ability to predict early-on whether something will be successful and not wasting time on unsuccessful things. Those are the type of things that I learned while pursuing my PhD, which have helped me throughout the course of my career."

Colin Kessinger

"Stanford left me with the impression that anything is possible. So rather than choosing from the career paths that were laid out in front of me, Stanford empowered and inspired me to create the career path that I wanted for myself."

Peter Haas has led a storied career that is deeply intertwined with Stanford, both as a former student and as an Adjunct Professor in Management Science and Engineering.

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Students in the program are expected to master graduate-level microeconomic theory and econometrics. In addition, they are expected to devote substantial time to mastering one additional complementary discipline, such as psychology, sociology, or political science, and developing expertise in research methodologies suited to their particular interests, such as qualitative analysis, designing effective fieldwork, and analysis of survey data.

Students in the Strategy doctoral program work closely with faculty in the Strategy Unit. In addition to the doctoral program in Strategy, the Strategy unit offers a program in Business Economics , which is designed to attract students interested in pursuing research using a purely economics-based methodology.

Curriculum & Coursework

Our programs are full-time degree programs which officially begin in August. Students are expected to complete their program in five years. Typically, the first two years are spent on coursework, at the end of which students take a field exam, and then another three years on dissertation research and writing.

The program requires a minimum of 13 semester long doctoral courses. Students in the Strategy program complete courses in the areas of business management theory, economic theory, quantitative research methods, academic field seminars, and two MBA elective curriculum courses. In addition to HBS courses, students may take courses at other Harvard Schools and MIT.

Research & Dissertation

Students in strategy begin research in their first year typically by working with a faculty member. By their third and fourth years, most students are launched on a solid research and publication stream. The dissertation may take the form of three publishable papers or one longer dissertation.

Examples of thesis research include: the relationship between non-market experience and the use and outcome of patent strategies by pharmaceutical firms; the antecedents and consequences of corporate strategy decision-making, specifically focusing on divestitures and governance; the impact of religion on individual financial choices and institutional structures; innovation in emerging markets; and the causal effect of incentive policy reform, expatriates and social relationships on innovation.

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“ Students in the program come from diverse backgrounds ranging from computer science to psychology. It's really fascinating how different our worlds views are! ”

Current HBS Faculty

• Juan Alcacer
• Laura Alfaro
• Bharat N. Anand
• Julie Battilana
• Ethan S. Bernstein
• Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
• Prithwiraj Choudhury
• David J. Collis
• Leemore S. Dafny
• Mattias E. Fibiger
• Carolyn J. Fu
• Shane M. Greenstein
• Boris Groysberg
• Jonas Heese
• Rebecca M. Henderson
• Ebehi Iyoha
• William R. Kerr
• Tarun Khanna
• Rembrand M. Koning
• Michael Luca
• Alexander J. MacKay
• Deepak Malhotra
• Cynthia A. Montgomery
• Frank Nagle
• Felix Oberholzer-Gee
• Joseph Pacelli
• Lynn S. Paine
• Sophus A. Reinert
• Meg Rithmire
• Jan W. Rivkin
• Charlotte L. Robertson
• Maria P. Roche
• Clayton S. Rose
• Raffaella Sadun
• George Serafeim
• Ariel D. Stern
• Jorge Tamayo
• Eric J. Van den Steen
• Dennis A. Yao
• David B. Yoffie

Current Strategy Students

• Jackson Anderson
• Ana Antolin
• Dafna Bearson
• Daniel J. Brown
• Liz Calder
• Rowan Clarke
• Innessa Colaiacovo
• Leila Doumi
• Laura Katsnelson
• Aticus Peterson
• Joey Ryu
• Kyle Schirmann
• Yifei Wu
• Haiyang Zhang

Current HBS Faculty & Students by Interest

Recent placement, nataliya langburd wright, 2023, hyunjin kim, 2020, jasmina chauvin, 2018, mike teodorescu, 2018, f. christopher eaglin, 2022, j. yo-jud cheng, 2019, cheng gao, 2018, young hou, 2021, do yoon kim, 2019, christopher poliquin, 2018.

Foresight at Stanford

Stanford's Foresight initiative investigates the practice of foresight and best practices for vision-led innovation.

How do you start? Based in Silicon Valley and drawing on Stanford's legacy for educating world-changing innovators, inventors, and thinkers, foresight does not mean futuring or trend finding. Instead design foresight is about knowing where to go, about having a view of the future: a vision of knowing what to build and why. Our mission is to create leaders and teams who imagine and build with foresight across multiple innovation horizons. We invite you to join our foresight community, support and learn from our research activities, practice the methods and tools taught in our classes, and then apply your ideas and energy into world-changing impact.

Playbook for Strategic Foresight and Innovation

Looking for practical foresight methods? Download a free PDF of our playbook (or buy a print version ) as your in-house guide.

Stanford Innovation Studio Summer 2021

Whether you already know how you’re going to change the world, or you’re still searching for your passion, this virtual team and project-based experience will help you develop the right mindset and skills to take on a future technology “moonshot” challenge. Four 1-hour synchronous sessions, asynchronous team tasks, and open channel coaching check-ins will stretch over two weeks and culminate in a virtual showcase.

June 28, June 30, July 2, July 7, July 9

"Serious Business Chops and Ambitious Idealism"

Learn how Patagonia's recent CEO is making merging business and idealistic goals in her new roles, and how it builds on the workd Stanford Foresight has led for 20 years.

"What If?" Game Series

Explore possible future scenarios and test alternate perspectives – on themes such as health, entertainment or logistics – with others through our online, expert-facilitated, serious game series.

We conduct our work as part of the Foresight Innovation Forum in the mediaX program at Stanford.

Stanford University

Stanford Health Policy is a joint effort of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford School of Medicine

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Winners—Health Policy Innovators

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Stanford Health Policy PhD student Eliza Ennis has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to continue her modelling work on the syndemic of HCV, HIV, and overdose in San Francisco County.

Ennis, a Knight-Hennessy Scholar who is on the decision-sciences PhD track, is working on a discrete-time microsimulation model focused on disease transmission and drug-related health events among the high-risk population of people who inject drugs (PWID) as well as sexual disease transmission among non-PWIDs in the county. Her agent-based model captures heterogenous risk for overdose, equipment-sharing and sexual disease transmission—and mortality across the population of San Francisco.

“I plan to use this model to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of harm reduction policies including the establishment of supervised injection facilities. Down the line, I also hope to expand this model to different geographies to increase the generalizability of any findings,” Ennis said. “As overdose deaths continue to rise nationwide, I hope this work can inform county, state, and national harm reduction policies and ultimately drive down mortality.”

Ennis has been mentored by SHP professors Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert , Josh Salomon , Margaret Brandeau and Doug Owens .

“I am so grateful for the mentorship and support I’ve received on this project from Jeremy, Josh, Margaret, and Doug. I have been especially lucky to be part of Josh’s  Prevention Policy Modeling Lab , which has enabled me to work with a consortium of scholars modeling HCV, HIV, and PWID populations, including Marissa Reitsma and Lin Zhu ,” Ennis said. “I’m excited to keep building my skills as a researcher while learning from the rest of the team.”

Reitsma is a fellow PhD student and Zhu is a Stanford Health Policy research engineer.

Importance of Mentorship

Stanford Health Policy faculty mentor students within the SHP education programs as well as students across campus.

“Given the mission of the Department of Health Policy, one of the most important roles faculty can play is that of mentor to our trainees,” said Goldhaber-Fiebert. “The energy, dedication, and potential that our trainees possess make being a mentor a true pleasure. This is especially the case when I have the chance to co-teach and co-mentor with stellar colleagues like Fernando.”

Fernando Alarid-Escudero , an assistant professor of health policy, is working with  Selina Pi , a PhD student in the  Department of Biomedical Data Science who also was just awarded an NSF graduate research fellowship to explore how likelihood ratios can be used to account for the effect of covariate drift on machine learning model predictions. 

In hospital, epidemic, or other settings where existing models are applied to new populations, predictions may be needed to inform decisions in real time before validating how well the model generalizes. Since changes in the deployment population can degrade model performance—which in turn negatively impacts care decisions—she hopes this research will lead to new methods to accurately adjust models to different populations without the time-consuming and expensive process of retraining a separate model.

“The question stemmed from work I was doing with my advisors Fernando and  Jonathan Chen on translating model predictions to decision-making,” Pi said. “Fernando is truly an encyclopedia of knowledge and is always ready to teach concepts on the whiteboard or point me to useful papers whenever I have a question.” 

Goldhaber-Fiebert—who co-teaches  a class on decision science methods and modeling with Alarid-Escudero—was Pi’s mentor on the project that led to her first conference presentation . She is now working with them to build a microsimulation model to evaluate colorectal cancer screening , testing how modeling assumptions for the natural history of cancer affect the predicted benefits and costs of various screening strategies.

“These mentors have provided invaluable guidance on structuring projects, brainstorming experiments, writing better code, and communicating my results more effectively,” Pi said. “I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to grow as a scientist while working with them and other brilliant researchers in health policy and biomedical data science.”

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From Genes to Cells to Diseases

We are presently in an omics revolution in which genomes and other omes can be readily characterized. Our laboratory develops and uses a variety of approaches to analyze genomes, other omes, and regulatory networks. We apply these approaches to understand human variation and health. Read more about our  research activities  or visit our  publications.

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We are currently recruiting participants for a variety of studies.

Click here to learn about the research our lab is engaged in, and find out if you are eligible to enroll in one or more studies.

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Certificates Accessible to All

Earn a Certificate in Genetics & Genomics taught by Dr. Snyder. Choose a course to learn more:

• Foundations of Genetics and Genomics
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Department Courses

Artificial intelligence, genes & ethics.

Aging: Science and Technology for Longevity

We are excited to share recent student papers and presentations resulting from our groundbreaking & innovative courses covering: Artificial Intelligence, Genes & Ethics; Aging: Science and Technology for Longevity ; Healthcare Venture Capital ; Longevity Venture Capitol; and How We Age.

Enroll in one of our current research studies:

HIIT vs. Endurance Training Study:

12-week training intervention research

Wearables Research Study :

With limited test kits and slow results turnaround, we are trying to find out if information from wearable devices can help detect Infectious Disease or COVID-19 before symptoms emerge.

Human Genetic Variation:

Researching the role of genetic variation between human sperm and somatic (body) cells where the basis is currently unknown.

Fiber, Microbiome & Health:

Researching the Longitudinal Systemic Effects of Dietary Fiber Supplementation.

Crohn's Exposome: Exposures Matter :

Investigating the role of human exposome in Crohn’s disease using wearable sensors and multiomics profiling.

A multiphase study that aims to advance the understanding of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms, comorbidities, and the biology of ASD.

Crash Course:

A study recruiting ME/CFS, Chronic Lyme, and Long COVID patients to better understand symptom flares and 'crashes'.

Highlighted Research

Antarctica :

Researching at the ends of the earth, we examine human health in earth’s most extreme environments.

Pac-12 Student Athletes Against COVID-19:

Researching COVID-19 disease prediction with Pac-12 student athletes and Fitbit wearable devices.

NASA’s trailblazing Twins Study :

Investigating physiological, molecular and cognitive changes that could happen to a human from exposure to spaceflight .

Stanford Deep Data Research Center

The Stanford Deep Data Research Center has launched

Systematic and intelligent solutions for large-scale biomedical applications

The Deep Data Research Computing Center (DDRCC) at Stanford University, one of the many initiatives originating out of Stanford Synder Labs . Its goal is to create tools that bridge the gap between biology and computer science, and help researchers in precision medicine deliver tangible medical solutions. Highlighted Case Study in Amazon News

To facilitate precision medicine research, DDRCC created the My Personal Health Dashboard (MyPHD), a secure, scalable, and interoperable health management system for consumers.

My Personal Health Dashboard (MyPHD) is a Mobile Phone Application

Many of Snyder Lab research studies use MyPHD which is now compatible with a variety of smartwatch devices in the market including Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch, Oura, Motiv, and SensOmics..

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Learn about research highlights, lab events and recent innovations

• Michael Snyder, PhD, President Biden and Rob Moritz, PhD, supporting healthcare, science and genetic research at the highest level.
• Snyder Lab's Ariel Ganz, PhD and Michael P. Snyder, PhD present our first Mental Healthcare Innovations Award to Selena Gomez.
• Featured on September 2022 cover of Cell Systems: Multiomic analysis reveals cell-type-specific molecular determinants of COVID-19 severity
• Superpowers for Founders: Three Part Series with Stanford Pipeline and Kimberly Sauceda
• Performance effectiveness of vital parameter combinations for early warning of sepsis—an exhaustive study using machine learning
• Dr Snyder Attends the Inauguration of Amrita Hospital by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi
• Behind the Research: Precision environmental health monitoring by longitudinal exposome and multi-omics profiling
• Published:  A cancer-associated RNA polymerase III identity drives robust transcription and expression of snaR-A noncoding RNA
• Self-Tracking Your Health Data
• Longitudinal data study shows gut microbiome diversity changes at the subspecies level during antibiotic treatment
• How does does fiber influence health and the microbiome?
• Exposome study aims to find whether biological or chemical exposures contribute to the course of Crohn’s disease
• Insights in the future of cloud computing and its impact on healthcare applications

Updates From The Lab

April 2024 : Snyder Lab's research featured on the cover of Cell Host & Microbe. 

'Longitudinal profiling of the microbiome at four body sites reveals core stability and individualized dynamics during health and disease'.  Learn more >

March 2024: Parts of our microbiomes that are unique to us are the most stable.   Longitudinal Study Published in Cell Host & Microbe 

Jan 2024:  

Snyder Lab launches new research study exploring potential health benefits resulting from plant compounds.   Learn More >

Nov 29-30, 2023 Mental Healthcare Innovation Summit

First Spatial Maps at the Single-Cell Level

Dr. Snyder works with collaborators to "uncover how cellular interactions reveal new ways cells can communicate with each other".

October 2023: Stanford Scientists Uncover New Indicators of Health, Disease, and Aging

Updates from the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council meeting.

Michael snyder, ph.d., demonstrates environmental sampling features of his exposometer device invention as niehs seeks to better understand how environments affect human health. learn about related research..

September 2023: The human lipidome reveals new indicators of health, disease and aging.

17 Scientific Papers Published in this package.

The first coordinated set of papers to chart out a set of high-resolution, single-cell maps of human organs.

July 19, 2023 - Published in Nature by HuBMAP

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May 2023 - The Human Immunome Project: Dr. Snyder Speak on transforming healthcare with deep data and remote monitoring. Watch the video >

January 27, 2023 - Dr. Snyder speaks this week at the 2023 International Precision Medicine World Conference

Highlighted in usa today: we can now measure thousands of protein, fat and metabolic molecules from a single drop of blood..

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January 11, 2023 - Featured in Futurity:

Biomarkers Can Point To Right Diet For Weight Loss

Our Initial Antarctic Expedition Research Data has arrived.

Mental Healthcare Innovation Summit October 2022

Surgeon General of California, Diana Ramos, MD, MPH, MBA, FACOG and Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo met with Michael Snyder, PhD along with Advocate & Musician Selena Gomez and other leaders to raise global awareness.         Learn more >

This Fall > Artifical Intelligence, Ethics & Genes

August/September 2022 > Cover of Cell Systems Journal: Multiomic analysis reveals cell-type-specific molecular determinants of COVID-19 severity

Michael Snyder, PhD, President Biden and Rob Moritz, PhD, working together to support healthcare, science and genetic research at the highest level.

July 2022 > Cover of Genome Research Journal: Precision environmental health monitoring by longitudinal exposome and multi-omics profiling

CBS News Interviews Michael Snyder About Self-Tracking Your Health Data

Correspondent David Pogue talks to Michale Snyder, PhD. about our wearables research study.

Our Summer Explorer's Workshop was a big success

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Body Count:

How Michael Snyder’s self-monitoring project could transform human health

"Snyder lab has discerned the earliest evidence of numerous ailments."   Read The Article >

WebMD Interviews Michael Snyder, PhD About Wearables and Catching Disease Early

More than half the planet has a health monitor at their fingertips, says geneticist Michael Snyder, PhD. He’s excited about the future of wearables and catching disease before symptoms begin.

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SCGPM - The Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine

Genome Sequencing Service Center

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My Personal Healthcare Dashboard

Initial data results from the epic Antarctica expedition.

Genomics and Personalized Medicine: What Everyone Needs to Know

This entry in the  What Everyone Needs to Know  series offers an authoritative resource on the prospects and realities of genomics and personalized medicine. As this science continues to alter traditional medical paradigms, consumers are faced with additional options and more complicated decisions regarding their health care. This book provides the essential information everyone needs.

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Stanford students receive Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships

The award provides generous funding for immigrants and children of immigrants pursuing graduate degrees.

Six Stanford graduate students are among this year’s recipients of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans , a merit-based program for immigrants and children of immigrants.

The Stanford students are among 30 outstanding scholars to receive the fellowship, selected for their achievements and their potential to make meaningful contributions to the United States across fields of study. They each will receive up to $90,000 in funding to support their graduate studies at institutions across the country.

Established in 1997, the fellowship program has provided more than $80 million in funding to students studying in a range of fields, from medicine and the arts to law and business.

Following are the 2024 Paul & Daisy Sorors Fellows from Stanford.

Sara Bobok (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

Sara Bobok and her family immigrated to the United States from Hungary when she was 2, seeking greater economic opportunity. She is pursuing a JD at Stanford Law School and a master’s degree at Stanford Graduate School of Education.

An advocate for children, Bobok spent high school summers volunteering at a Transylvanian orphanage and dedicated school years to fundraising and organizing donation drives for the children. At Harvard University, she studied social studies with a minor in mathematical sciences to better understand the historical, political, and economic roots of inequality.

Bobok has interned with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, researched bail reform at Harvard Law School, designed civic engagement policy with Boston’s then-City Council President Michelle Wu, and served as a strategist for Hungary’s Momentum party. She also spearheaded a project on Hungarian child trafficking prevention, supporting the very orphanages that inspired her work, and served as director of the tutoring program for the Association to Benefit Children, a youth aid organization in East Harlem, New York. She aspires to be a lawyer, educator, and advocate.

Sharon Loa (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

Sharon Loa was born in Puente Piedra, Peru. At age 6, she and her mother relocated to Missoula, Montana. At Stanford, she is pursuing an MD/PhD in cancer biology.

At 16, Loa became a certified pharmacy technician, which led her to wonder how drugs behaved in cells and what effect they had on a patient’s body. Her interest in medicine led her to the University of Montana, where she studied biochemistry. There, Loa worked on research leading to the discovery of three novel protein structures using X-ray crystallography in Professor Klara Briknarova’s lab. Loa also restructured and transformed her university chemistry courses by creating training programs and mentorship opportunities.

After college, Loa received the National Institutes of Health Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. There, she established programs for postbaccalaureate fellows and underrepresented students entering medical schools.

She is on a mission to pioneer diagnostic methods to improve identification and treatment of diseases, deliver compassionate and equitable care, and shape the next generation of physicians through inclusive and innovative education.

Malavika Kannan (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

Stanford senior Malavika Kannan was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Central Florida in a tight-knit community of Indian immigrants, including her parents, who emigrated from South India. After completing her bachelor’s degree in comparative studies in race and ethnicity this year, she will pursue a Master of Fine Arts in fiction.

Growing up, Kannan became increasingly aware of the impacts of gun violence, police violence, and racism on her community. In high school, she and her classmates organized a school-wide walkout against gun violence. Kannan also worked with such organizations as March For Our Lives, the Women’s March, and Giffords.

Kannan’s experiences as an organizer influenced her writing, an art form she views as inherently political, imaginative, and community oriented. Her writing on identity, culture, and politics has appeared in The Washington Post , Teen Vogue , Refinery29 , and San Francisco Chronicle . She’s also the author of the young adult novel All the Yellow Suns . She intends to become a novelist and professor of literature.

James Occean (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

James Occean was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and immigrated to the U.S. at age 10. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in bioinformatics at Johns Hopkins University. This fall, he will begin a PhD program in cancer biology at Stanford, supported by the fellowship.

Occean earned a BS in biomedical sciences from the University of South Florida, where he was a first-generation college student. There, he conducted epidemiological research to identify predictors and risk factors for intimate partner violence among women in his native country. He also researched how trauma exposure increases susceptibility to psychiatric disorders and studied genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that underlie post-traumatic stress disorder.

After college, Occean earned a postbaccalaureate fellowship at the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health. In Payel Sen’s lab, he investigated how changes in epigenetic modifications and chromatin drive mammalian aging and related decline. He also contributed to several peer-reviewed publications, secured over $140,000 in research grants for his work on DNA hydroxymethylation, and received the Early Career Scholar award from the American Aging Association.

Akshay Swaminathan (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

Akshay Swaminathan was born in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, to immigrants from Tamil Nadu, India. At Stanford, he is an MD candidate and is pursuing a PhD in biomedical data science. He is also a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.

After finding an online community of polyglots in high school, Swaminathan developed pedagogical techniques that helped him learn over 10 languages. At Harvard College, he used languages to connect with and serve others. He was executive director of Refresh Bolivia, a global health nonprofit, where he helped build a primary health care clinic serving Indigenous residents in Cochabamba. He led Harvard Chinatown ESL, a program offering free English classes to adult Chinese immigrants. He also published five textbooks to teach English to Chinese speakers. He is the founder of Start Speaking, which helps language learners improve fluency.

As a data scientist, Swaminathan builds data-driven tools for patients, clinicians, and policymakers. At Flatiron Health, he developed methods to analyze observational clinical data to support FDA decision-making. At the virtual mental health company Cerebral, he helped deploy a suicide detection system that served over 500,000 patients across the U.S.

At Stanford, Swaminathan is developing approaches to safely and effectively use artificial intelligence to deliver health care. He plans to become a physician, combining data science and medicine to strengthen health systems in low-resource areas.

Evelyn Wong (Image credit: Courtesy PD Soros Fellowships)

Evelyn Wong was born in East Los Angeles, California, to Teochew-Vietnamese refugees. At Stanford, she is pursuing an MD/PhD in biophysics and is a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.

A first-generation college student, Wong graduated from Harvard University, where she studied neuroscience and Spanish literature. As an undergraduate, she received the Herchel Smith Fellowship for her thesis project at the MIT McGovern Institute, developing a next-generation protein sequencing platform. Beyond academics, she mentored young refugees in Boston and worked in free clinics serving undocumented and recently incarcerated individuals. She founded the nonprofit CovEducation, which provides programs and services to bridge academic achievement gaps. As a Marshall Scholar, Wong earned an MPhil from the Division of Medicine at University College London, where she optimized existing neurotechnologies to understand cortical brain function.

At Stanford she is developing flexible electrodes to record neural signals from deep, hard-to-reach structures in the mammalian brain. She is a co-director of the Stanford Asylum Collaborative, providing medical and psychological evaluations to support individuals seeking asylum in the United States. Wong aspires to a career as a physician-neuroengineer, working at the intersection of asylee health and neurotechnology to tackle technical and structural barriers to neuropsychiatric care.

Conference and Event Manager

🔍 graduate school of business, stanford, california, united states.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Stanford's Graduate School of Business has built a global reputation based on its immersive and innovative management programs. We provide students a transformative leadership experience, pushing the boundaries of knowledge with faculty research, and offering a portfolio of entrepreneurial and non-degree programs that deliver global impact like no other. We are committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in service of our mission of developing innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who change lives, change organizations, and change the world. We invite you to be part of this mission.

The Event Operations team within the Facilities & Hospitality Department of Stanford GSB seeks an experienced and highly skilled Conference and Event Manager to work closely in partnership with Stanford GSB department and event owners to plan and execute conferences and events, such as high-profile speaker visits, academic conferences, seminars, executive programs, student-facing educational opportunities and other university-related events. This position serves as a project and team leader in managing a portfolio of events, including large/multi-day events and will be part of a highly collaborative team assisting in the execution of Stanford GSB’s in-person, hybrid, and virtual events. 

The Conferences and Events Manager will need to exercise good judgment regarding how to prioritize tasks in the face of frequently shifting priorities. It is essential to have excellent judgment, integrity, flexibility, and creativity as well as a positive attitude, the ability to collaborate and consult, and a good sense of humor. If you are an experienced event manager with outstanding event planning expertise and exceptional customer service skills, ready to take-on new challenges in higher education, this is a position for you. 

The GSB campus properties include the Knight Management Center and GSB Residences on 19.5 acres with nearly 700K sq.ft. of buildings that support academic and administrative functions, student and executive residential experiences and food service programs. The Schwab Residential Center is a 24-hour, 7-day/week residence, conference center.

Your primary responsibilities include:

• Serve as project leader on specific events, overseeing all aspects of each event and coordinating teams that plan, implement and manage event logistics such as: AV, equipment/furnishings, registration, catering, managing vendors, etc. Provide on-site event management and support.
• Initiate and lead meetings with stakeholders to define and monitor scope and format of events and event budgets, and/or review administrative procedures and event progress, and provide guidance and policy interpretation.
• Responsible for budget planning and management, venue management and equipment and facilities management for specific events.
• Manage venue scheduling, including strategies around scheduling, reservation requests, calendar conflicts and venue usage.
• Utilize and maintain complex venue reservation system/database in EMS and other event planning software.
• Inspect event facilities to ensure they conform to the event needs. Create specialized floor plans and coordinate event setup/take down.
• Oversee registration strategy and logistics as needed.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external partners.
• Procure and coordinate vendor services.
• Research and provide recommendations to optimize event locations and evaluate alternatives and availability.
• Investigate, document and report complaints regarding all aspects of events including customer service, crowd control and staff issues.
• Inspect event facilities for maintenance, janitorial and fire safety issues, ensuring enforcement of Environmental Health and Safety and other facility regulations. Arrange for correction if issues are found.
• Provide support for virtual and hybrid events.
• Communicate with visiting entities such as speakers/panelists, alumni, and program participants for assigned events.
• Other duties may also be assigned.

To be successful in this position, you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree and three years of relevant experience or a combination of education and relevant experience.  •    Demonstrated success managing event teams and planning, developing budgets, and meeting budget goals. •    Excellent project management skills, and the ability to manage complex timelines and multiple projects. •    Proficient in managing Zoom meetings and Webinars and/or willingness to learn. •    Ability to work both independently and as part of a team. •    Excellent interpersonal, communication, time management, and customer service skills. Must be well organized and detailed oriented. •    Exceptional hospitality and customer service skills with the ability to cultivate partnerships. •    Demonstrated high level of confidence in making strategic decisions, using good judgment, and innovative and creative problem-solving skills. •    Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, cloud applications such as Google Workspace, Eventbrite. Willingness to learn department reservation system and other applications. •    Ability to interact and successfully collaborate with a broad spectrum of contributing groups and customers. •    Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends •    Fully onsite position.

In addition, preferred requirements include:

• Stanford experience

The expected pay range for this position is $77,000 to $97,000 per year. 

Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.

At Stanford University, base pay represents only one aspect of the comprehensive rewards package. The Cardinal at Work website ( https://cardinalatwork.stanford.edu/benefits-rewards ) provides detailed information on Stanford’s extensive range of benefits and rewards offered to employees. Specifics about the rewards package for this position may be discussed during the hiring process.

How to Apply We invite you to apply for this position by clicking on the “Apply for Job” button. To be considered, please submit a cover letter and résumé along with your online application.       Why Stanford is for You Stanford’s dedicated 16,000 staff come from diverse educational and career backgrounds. We are a collaborative environment that thrives on innovation and continuous improvement. At Stanford, we seek talent committed to excellence, driven to impact the future of our legacy, and improve lives on a global sphere. We provide competitive salaries, excellent health care and retirement plans, and a generous vacation policy, including additional time off during our winter closure. Our generous perks align with what matters to you:

• Freedom to grow . Take advantage of career development programs, tuition reimbursement, or audit a course. Join a TedTalk, film screening, or listen to a renowned author or leader discuss global issues.
• A caring culture . We understand the importance of your personal and family time and provide you access to wellness programs, child-care resources, parent education and consultation, elder care and caregiving support.
• A healthier you . We make wellness a priority by providing access to world-class exercise facilities. Climb our rock wall, or participate in one of hundreds of health or fitness classes.
• Discovery and fun . Visit campus gardens, trails, and museums.
• Enviable resources . We offer free commuter programs and ridesharing incentives. Enjoy discounts for computers, cell phones, recreation, travel, entertainment, and more! 

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Erin Nixon Joins Stanford GSB as Assistant Dean of Admissions

Nixon brings “rare combination of talents” and broad international experience.

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Erin Nixon, an executive and entrepreneur with strong experience in strategic management and operations, has been named assistant dean of admissions and financial aid at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Quote I’ve experienced firsthand how [Stanford GSB] transforms the trajectory of its students. Attribution Erin Nixon

Nixon, who earned both her undergraduate and MBA degrees at Stanford, returns to Stanford GSB for a role that she says “at its heart, is about identifying and connecting with smart, highly motivated people who want to make a difference in the world. It is about bringing them together to create a strong, robust community, representing a wide variety of lived experiences, ambitions, and perspectives, united by common values.”

Over her 20-year career, Nixon has built and managed teams across multiple industries and international locations. After five years at Boston Consulting Group, she joined LinkedIn, where she was responsible for growing the global talent brand business, overseeing a team based in 18 countries around the world.

She then pivoted into the world of wine, opening an acclaimed wine bar and restaurant in Barcelona, Spain. In Barcelona, she has also worked as a strategy and operations leader and advisor for a few startups and small businesses, including a tech-enabled mental health provider and a digital marketing and brand agency for wine and spirits.

“We did a comprehensive, international search for someone who could do great work in a role that requires numerous skills — representing the GSB, managing a large professional team, and assessing talent and potential,” says Stanford GSB Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Paul Oyer. “Erin has that rare combination of talents that will enable her to excel in all the aspects of this position. She is a great addition to the GSB’s leadership team.”

“I’m delighted to step into this role because I feel deeply aligned with the mission and goals of Stanford GSB,” Nixon says. “I’ve experienced firsthand how it transforms the trajectory of its students, unlocking leadership potential to drive meaningful impact in the world. Stanford is an incredibly inspiring place, and it’s a dream to be able to return to the Farm and serve the GSB community in this way.”

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