Stanford University,officially Leland Stanford Junior University,is a private research university in Stanford,California. The campus occupies 8,180 acres,among the largest in the United States,and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is ranked among the top universities in the world.
Condoleezza Rice is an American diplomat and political scientist who is the current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. A member of the Republican Party,she previously served as the 66th United States secretary of state from 2005 to 2009 and as the 19th U.S. national security advisor from 2001 to 2005. Rice was the first female African-American secretary of state and the first woman to serve as national security advisor. Until the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008,Rice and her predecessor,Colin Powell,were the highest-ranking African Americans in the history of the federal executive branch. At the time of her appointment as Secretary of State,Rice was the highest-ranking woman in the history of the United States to be in the presidential line of succession.
Andrew Michael Spence is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate.
The Hoover Institution is an American public policy think tank and research institution that promotes personal and economic liberty,free enterprise,and limited government. While the institution is formally a unit of Stanford University,it maintains an independent board of overseers and relies on its own income and donations. It is widely described as a conservative institution,although its directors have contested the idea that it is partisan.
The Stanford Graduate School of Business is the graduate business school of Stanford University,a private research university in Stanford,California. For several years it has been the most selective business school in the United States,admitting only about 6% of applicants.
Keith Hennessey is an American economist and former political advisor who served as the Assistant to the U.S. President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council. He was appointed to the position in November 2007 by President George W. Bush,and served until the end of Bush's second term in office. Hennessey had served in the White House since August 2002,when he was appointed to the position of Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Deputy Director of the U.S. National Economic Council.
The McCombs School of Business is a business school at The University of Texas at Austin,a public research university in Austin,Texas. In addition to the main campus in Downtown Austin,McCombs offers classes outside Central Texas in Dallas,and Houston. The McCombs School of Business offers undergraduate,master's,and doctoral programs for their average 13,000 students each year,adding to its 98,648 member alumni base from a variety of business fields. In addition to traditional classroom degree programs,McCombs is home to 14 collaborative research centers,the international business plan competition:Venture Labs Investment Competition,and executive education programs.
The Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School is a private graduate school associated with the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica,California. The school offers doctoral studies in policy analysis and practical experience working on RAND research projects to solve current public policy problems. Its campus is co-located with the RAND Corporation and most of the faculty is drawn from the 950 researchers at RAND. The 2018–19 student body includes 116 men and women from 26 countries around the world.
The University of Oklahoma College of Law is the professional graduate law school of the University of Oklahoma. It is located on the University's campus in Norman,Oklahoma.
Alison Davis-Blake was the eighth president of Bentley University. Before Bentley,she served as dean of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. At Ross,Davis-Blake was the school’s first female dean,and at the time of her appointment she was the highest-ranking female dean at any U.S. business school.
George Pratt Shultz was an American economist,businessman,diplomat and statesman. He served in various positions under two different Republican presidents and is one of the only two persons to have held four different Cabinet-level posts,the other being Elliot Richardson. Shultz played a major role in shaping the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. From 1974 to 1982,he was an executive of the Bechtel Group,an engineering and services company.
James M. Goldgeier is a professor of international relations at the School of International Service at American University in Washington,D.C.,where he served as dean from 2011 to 2017. He became dean in August 2011. Previously he was employed at George Washington University in Washington,D.C.,as professor of political science and international affairs (2004–2011),associate professor of political science and international affairs (1998–2004),and assistant professor of political science and international affairs (1994–1998). While at George Washington University,he also served as director of the Institute for European,Russian and Eurasian Studies (2001–2005),for which he had previously served as acting director (1999–2000). Before joining George Washington University,he taught at Cornell University (1991–1993).
Cynthia Mathis Beath is an American economist and Professor Emerita at the Department of Information,Risk and Operations Management at the McCombs School of Business,
Barry Robert Weingast is an American political scientist and economist,who is currently the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Weingast's research concentrates on the relationship between politics and economics,particularly economic reform,regulation,and the political foundation of markets.
Jay Hartzell is an American economist and the 30th President of The University of Texas at Austin. Additionally,he holds the Centennial Chair in Business Education Leadership and the Trammell Crow Regents Professor in Business at UT Austin.
Arjay Miller was one of the ten Whiz Kids hired by Henry Ford II of the Ford Motor Company. He served as president of Ford Motor Company between 1963 and 1968,until he was abruptly fired by Henry Ford II. He then went on to become the dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
