A sense of shared purpose unites the staff of Stanford Graduate School of Business

“If you just can change a little bit of the world, that’s all you really need to do,” says Nancy Gross, an operations manager in the MBA and MSx programs. “And I just feel that every day here.” Staff also happen to have a lot of great stories, including how our motto — change lives, change organizations, change the world — came to be.

On this episode of GSB at 100, you’ll hear from the dedicated and accomplished staff members who work behind the scenes to make Stanford GSB a community unlike anywhere else in the world.

Learn more about the Stanford GSB Centennial

In 1925, Herbert Hoover, a Stanford alum and future U.S. president, had an idea. “A graduate School of Business Administration is urgently needed upon the Pacific Coast,” he wrote.

One hundred years later, what has Stanford Graduate School of Business accomplished, and what might its future hold? Listen in as professors reflect on founding principles, frontier technologies, and the magic that makes the GSB the place it is — and shapes what it aspires to be.

Learn more about the Stanford GSB Centennial

Created especially for Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Centennial, GSB at 100 presents a scrapbook of memories, ideas, and breakthroughs as the GSB celebrates its first century and looks around the corner to what the next hundred years may hold.

You’ll hear insights from scholars and leaders, visit the archives to explore how the GSB came to be, and smile at a story about dancing in the rain.

GSB at 100 is a portrait of the GSB at 100 — and a glimpse of what’s to come.

New episodes out monthly starting September 17.