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Annual WAVC/NVCA Meeting
Guest Speaker: Dean Garth Saloner
Upcoming Events
Annual WAVC/NVCA Meeting Featuring Guest Speaker: Dean Garth Saloner
Date: Thursday, December 1, 2011
Time: 12:00-2:00
Location: Four Seasons Palo Alto
Invitation & Registration Details to follow About Dean Garth Saloner:
- Garth, who became the GSB's ninth Dean in 2009, has spent most of his adult life at Stanford.
- He came to the GSB in 1978 from his native South Africa to pursue a PhD in Economics, Business, and Public Policy.
- He then spent eight years in Cambridge, MA; 7 at MIT and then a year in Michael Porter's competitive strategy group at HBS before returning to Stanford in 1990.
- At Stanford he has been engaged in a variety of activities: he built a strategic management group, co-led the Stanford Computer Industry Project, was an Associate Dean under Dean Michael Spence, founded the Center for Electronic Commerce and Business, and was a co-director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.
- He is an industrial organization economist who applies the insights of that field to strategic management. Much of his work has focused on the implications of network effects for competitive strategy.
- A two-time winner of the distinguished teaching award, Garth loves to teach and has taught courses including strategic leadership, critical analytical thinking, formation of new ventures, and women's perspectives on entrepreneurship.
- An avid photographer, Garth gets his exercise cycling in the beautiful foothills around Stanford (or spinning in the early morning hours).
- Garth and his family "bleed cardinal": his daughters are on their way to the families 7th and 8th Stanford degrees.
DATE & TIME Thursday, Decmeber 1, 2011 12:00-2:00 LOCATION Four Seasons, Palo Alto |
