About the GSB Leadership

History of the GSB

About the GSB Leadership

Dean Garth Saloner
Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean

Dean Garth Saloner Garth Saloner, who joined the Business School faculty in 1990, was one of the founders of the Stanford Computer Industry Project, a major study of the worldwide computer industry, funded by the Sloan Foundation, and a founder of the Center for Electronic Business and Commerce. He served the Business School as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Director for Research and Curriculum Development from 1993-96. In 2006, he led the Curriculum Review Committee that undertook a major overhaul of the MBA curriculum, allowing students more flexibility in selecting courses that complemented their experience and interests.

He is one of only two faculty members to have won the Distinguished Teaching Award at the Stanford Graduate School of Business twice, first in 1993 and again in 2008.

Saloner is known for his pioneering work on network effects, which underlie much of the economics of electronic commerce and business. His research focuses on issues of entrepreneurship, e-commerce, strategic management, organizational economics, competitive strategy, and antitrust economics. Much of his recent work has been devoted to understanding how firms set and change strategy, in established firms and startups.

He received a B.Com. and MBA (with distinction) from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, in his native South Africa. He received an MS in Statistics, an AM in Economics, and a Ph.D. in Economics, Business, and Public Policy from Stanford University between 1978 and 1982. He joined the faculty of the economics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in 1982 and was promoted through the ranks to the position of tenured full professor in both the economics department and the Sloan School of Management before joining the Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty.

He is the school's ninth dean.

Academic Associate Deans

Glenn R. Carroll
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Laurence W. Lane Professor of Organizations

Glenn Carroll’s research interests include organizational theory, strategic management, and industrial evolution. He has pioneered ecological approaches to organizational analysis, as well as their application to strategy. Carroll helped develop the study of population dynamics among organizations by examining how the demographics of firms affect corporate change. His recent research investigates how organizational identities develop and impact society. Another program examines how the diversity of organizations in a community affects sociopolitical outcomes. Carroll also has studied the ways internal organizational demography shapes organizational cultures.

Education: BA, Indiana Univ., 1975; MA, Stanford Univ., 1977, PhD 1982.
Honors and Awards: Max Weber Award, American Sociological Assn., 2002; Doctor Honoris Causa (applied economics), Univ. of Antwerp, 2002.
Experience: Asst. Prof., Brown Univ., 1981–82; Paul Cortese Distinguished Prof. of Management, Haas School of Business, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1982–2000; Prof., Columbia Univ., 2004–06. At Stanford since 2000.

Peter M. DeMarzo
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance

Peter M. DeMarzo Peter DeMarzo’s research is in the area of corporate finance, asset securitization, and contracting, as well as market structure and regulation. Recent work has examined issues of the optimal design of securities, the regulation of insider trading and broker-dealers, and the influence of information asymmetries on corporate investment.

Education: BA, Univ. of California, San Diego, 1984; MS, Stanford Univ., 1985, PhD, 1989.
Honors and Awards: Review of Financial Studies Best Paper Award, Barclays Global Investors/Michael Brennan, 2006; Stanford Sloan Teaching Excellence Award, 2006, 2004; Corporate Finance Award, Western Finance Assn., 2001; Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award, 1998.
Experience: Asst. Prof., Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern Univ., 1989–92, Assoc. Prof., 1992–97; Visiting Assoc. Prof., Stanford Graduate School of Business, 1995–97; Assoc. Prof., Haas School of Business, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1997–99, Prof., 1999–2000. At Stanford 1995–97, and since 2000.

Sunil Kumar
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Fred H. Merrill Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology

Sunil Kumar’s research focuses on the use of mathematical models to study operations affected by stochastic variability in order to estimate performance and design managerial policies. The models he studies include stochastic network models. Applications areas of his work include service operations, manufacturing systems, and communication networks.

Education: BE, Regional Engineering College, Surathkal, India, 1990; ME, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1992; PhD, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1996.
Experience: Graduate Research Asst., Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1992–96. At Stanford since 1996.

Associate Deans

Gale H. Bitter
Associate Dean of Executive Education and the Schwab Residential Center

Derrick Bolton
Assistant Dean and Director of MBA Admissions

Sharon J. Hoffman
Associate Dean and Director of the MBA Program

Sharon A. Marine
Associate Dean for Development

Claudia Morgan
Associate Dean for Academic Administration

Daniel N. Rudolph
Senior Associate Dean, Operations

Pulin Sanghvi
Assistant Dean, Director of Career Management Center

Robert Urstein
Assistant Dean for the Doctoral Program

Karen A. Wilson
Associate Dean for Faculty Services and Operations

Randy Yee
Assistant Dean for Information Technology

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