Stanford University is a private research university in Stanford,California. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford,the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California,and his wife,Jane,in memory of their only child,Leland Jr. The university admitted its first students in 1891,opening as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. It struggled financially after Leland died in 1893 and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II,university provost Frederick Terman inspired an entrepreneurial culture to build a self-sufficient local industry.
The University of Texas at Austin is a public research university in Austin,Texas,United States. Founded in 1883,it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 52,384 students as of Fall 2022,it is also the largest institution in the system.
Andrew Michael Spence is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate.
The Hoover Institution is an American public policy think tank which 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 conservative,although its directors have contested the idea that it is partisan.
Stanford Law School (SLS) is the law school of Stanford University,a private research university near Palo Alto,California. Established in 1893,Stanford Law had an acceptance rate of 6.28% in 2021,the second-lowest of any law school in the country. George Triantis currently serves as Dean.
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.
Vanderbilt University Law School is the law school of Vanderbilt University. Established in 1874,it is one of the oldest law schools in the southern United States. Vanderbilt Law enrolls approximately 640 students,with each entering Juris Doctor class consisting of approximately 175 students.
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.
Alison Davis-Blake is an American academic administrator. She served as 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,and conservative foreign policy thought thereafter.
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 C. 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.
Lillian F. Mills is an American accountant and the first female dean of the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business.
