Apps for Stanfords New Online Exec Program Now Open
Applications for Stanford Graduate School of Business’s new, online model for executive learning are now open. The new model recreates the intimate and academically rigorous on-campus Stanford experience in an interactive online environment. Participants will engage with a select cohort of peers, collaborate on projects, interact directly with coaches and faculty and gain insights from successful global leaders.
The new model will launch with the Stanford LEAD Certificate: Corporate Innovation, which aspires to help participants learn, engage, accelerate and disrupt. It is aimed at professionals who wish to drive new initiatives and effectively implement change within their organizations. The eight-course program will help participants develop their abilities to identify the ideas that deliver the most impact and to overcome organizational barriers.
Stanford No. One Entrepreneurial University
Stanford University has been ranked no. one on Forbes’s 2014 most entrepreneurial universities list for the second time. Forbes ranked the nation’s most entrepreneurial research universities based on their entrepreneurial ratios, the number of alumni and students who have identified themselves founders and business owners on LinkedIn against the school’s combined graduate and undergraduate student body.
Some of the most famous graduates from Stanford include, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), Jeffrey Bewkes (Time Warner), Reed Hastings (Netflix), William Hewlett and David Packard (Hewlett-Packard), Konstantin Guericke and Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Phil Knight (Nike), Marissa Mayer (Yahoo), Scott McNealy, Charles R. Schwab, (Charles Schwab Corp.), Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger (Instagram), Peter Thiel (PayPal) and Jerry Yang and David Filo (Yahoo).
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