Stanford GSB Celebrates 100-Year Anniversary In 2025

Palo Alto, CA: “Stanford Graduate School of Business has begun a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of its founding.

Plans for commemorating the Centennial include regional events hosted by alumni throughout the United States, as well as in Hong Kong, Mexico City, and Paris; a website devoted to illuminating the school’s impact and history; a faculty-led celebration of scholarship in September; and an expanded alumni reunion on October 10, culminating with a celebratory event for the GSB community at Frost Amphitheater.

Stanford GSB opened on October 1, 1925. Established partly in response to the small number of business schools on the West Coast at the time, it grew from a handful of students in a small cluster of rooms to hundreds of students across its MBA, MSx, PhD, and executive education programs. It also became a major research institution, which today has more than 130 faculty in seven academic areas.

“We are excited to celebrate the profound, positive, and enduring influence the GSB has had on business and society for the last 100 years,” says Stanford GSB Interim Dean Peter DeMarzo. “Our Centennial also offers the chance to reflect on how we continue to provide people with the skills and insight to lead organizations and implement positive change in the world.“

To watch the centennial video, click here.

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Dartmouth Tuck Reaches 125 Year Anniversary

Hanover, NH: “One hundred and twenty-five years ago, Edward Tuck D’1862 wrote these words in a letter that would become the guiding ethos for the world’s first graduate school of management.

In 1900, Tuck partnered with his former college roommate, then Dartmouth president William Jewett Tucker D’1861, to found the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance—a bold experiment that became the prototype for graduate management education.

Named in honor of Edward’s father, the Amos Tuck School opened its doors at the turn of the twentieth century during the height of U.S. industrialization. Tuck and Tucker recognized an opportunity to cultivate well-rounded leaders skilled in business and motivated by a deep sense of social responsibility—leaders guided by integrity and driven by purpose.

Today, 125 years later, Tuck stands stronger than ever, guided by its enduring mission to develop wise, decisive leaders who better the world through business—a mission firmly rooted in Edward Tuck’s altruistic maxim.

“At Tuck, leadership done well has always been about others. Altruism, not egoism, or in today’s Tuck lexicon: bettering the world through business,” says Dean Matthew J. Slaughter. “Despite astonishing changes in the world, the global economy, and higher education, this approach to leadership has been invariant throughout Tuck’s history and fundamental to our success.”

To read the full article, click here.

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Virginia Darden Names Two Vice Deans

Charlottesville, VA: “Dean Scott Beardsley this week announced the appointment of two vice deans as he prepares to begin his third term leading the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.

Beardsley, who was reappointed in December 2024, named Senior Associate Deans Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Melissa Thomas-Hunt as Vice Deans, effective Feb. 1.

“I’m very pleased to appoint Yael and Melissa to these important new roles, which will help us build on the tremendous momentum the Darden School has for pursuing our mission of inspiring responsible leaders for business and the world,” he said.

As Vice Deans they will lead the implementation of major academic initiatives, engage the Darden faculty collaboratively in advancing the School and ensure the ongoing success of Darden’s signature transformational education experiences.

The new roles for Grushka-Cockayne and Thomas-Hunt are an extension of their current roles as strategic leaders for Darden.”

To read more about the new vice deans, click here.

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Super Bowl Champion Returns To University of Virginia To Pursue MBA At The Darden School

Charlottesville, VA: “The scope of the Super Bowl hit home for Micah Kiser when, upon noticing his photos in the lead-up to the 2019 Big Game, his third-grade teacher messaged him on Instagram: “Wait, is that you?”

Kiser was 24 then, a rookie playing for the Los Angeles Rams, and on the heels of an outstanding career at the University of Virginia. The two-time All-America linebacker for the Cavaliers was primarily a special teams player for the Rams during their Super Bowl LIII matchup against the New England Patriots, meaning he was on the field for the opening kickoff of a game more than 98 million people across the world watched.

“I was shaking,” Kiser said. “It was a surreal moment.”

Kiser is 30 now and three years removed from his last football game. Nervous energy, though, still abounds as he tackles his first year at UVA’s Darden School of Business while juggling life as a husband and father.”

To read about Micah Kiser, click here.

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