Five Stanford University Graduate School of Business second-year MBA students have joined the elite Siebel Scholars group. The students were chosen by a faculty committee based on academic achievement and demonstrated leadership within the business school community during their first year. Students inducted in to the group are also given a tuition grant.
The group recognizes the brightest students at the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering, who are at the forefront of the collaborative search for solutions to the world’s most critical issues. Students inducted into the Siebel Scholars group are usually ranked in the top 5 percent of their class, many within the top 1 percent.
The Siebel Foundation founded the Siebel Scholars program in 2000 in order to recognize the most talented students at the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science and bioengineering. Today, there is an active community of over 950 leaders who serves as advisors to the Siebel Foundation and works collaboratively to find solutions to society’s most pressing problems.
The Thomas and Stacey Siebel Foundation is a nonprofit, public benefit corporation that was established as a private foundation in 1996. Its mission is to foster programs and organizations that improve the quality of life, environment and education of its community members. The Siebel Foundation also funds projects to support the homeless and underprivileged, education and research, public health, and alternative energy solutions.
The five Stanford MBA students that have been inducted in to the Siebel Scholars group are: Kelly Ann Alverson, Liz Bird, Peter Nurnberg, Javier Ortega del Rio and Sagar Sanghvi.