When you select an MBA program, you are not just choosing your learning environment, but are also committing to becoming part of a community. Each Thursday, we offer a window into life “beyond the MBA classroom” at a top business school.
Arjay Miller Scholars are those students in the top 10% of each class at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and the distinction was named after former GSB dean Arjay Miller. The name of the event, Friends of Arjay Miller (FOAM) Party, playfully suggests that only the “friends” of Arjay Miller scholars, rather the studious Arjay Miller scholars themselves, go out for drinks each Tuesday night (there are no classes on Wednesdays). FOAM even has a special Las Vegas tradition. As a part of Vegas FOAM, which typically takes place in March, students dress in traditional 1970s attire and fly together to Las Vegas (a short trip from the San Francisco Bay Area) for a night of fun before returning to school the next day.
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