Think business school campuses shut down for the summer when students are away? Nothing could be further from the truth at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB)’s Knight Management Center, where more than 1,600 people have been taking part in a range of executive programs, summer institutes, conferences and alumni events.
Since June, the new Knight Center, which opened in April, has been hosting activities ranging from executive education sessions to alumni reunions to a month-long entrepreneurial institute for non-business majors. In many instances, the new center’s expanded size – 80,000 square feet larger than the old GSB – has supported a jump in attendance for these events.
The Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship, a month-long program designed to help non-business Stanford graduate students and postdoctoral fellows develop skills to transform innovative ideas into successful business ventures, saw its enrollment grow to 100 this year, up from just over 70 last year.
And the Knight Center’s 600-seat CEMEX Auditorium, with almost twice the capacity of the old Bishop Auditorium, held nearly 500 educators and policy makers as part of a two-day Goldman Sachs/Stanford University Global Education Conference in June, which showcased ways that innovators around the world boosting student achievement.
Other events this summer have included a Class of 1986 alumni reunion, the six-week residential Stanford Executive Program and Stanford’s Summer Institute for General Management, a program for college juniors and seniors and recent college graduates designed to give them a solid grounding in business fundamentals as they begin their careers.
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