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What South African-born Stanford school of business dean Garth Saloner teaches: VIDEOS


Dean Garth Saloner — on the Stanford Grad School of Business website.

Principled leadership is essential to organizational leaders, says Stanford Graduate School of Business  Dean Garth Saloner, a native of South Africa who received a bachelor of commerce) and MBA (with distinction) from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

See what Dean Saloner says about principled leadership, critical thinking, leadership development, cutting-edge faculty research, entrepreneurship, global awareness and social innovation in the Stanford MBA curriculum in this September 2, 2009 video.

Hear why Dean Saloner insists students go and live and work in a country other than their own, how he encourages them to make social change in the world, and what he says about living a live of meaning and impact:

Principled leadership means understanding how your business decisions impact the broader community, says Stanford Graduate School of Business Dean Garth Saloner. In an increasingly complex and global world, that understanding must span industries, public sectors, cultures, and countries.

 

Dean Saloner received an MS in statistics, an AM in economics, and a PhD in economics, business, and public policy from Stanford between 1978 and 1982. He joined the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in 1982 and became a tenured full professor in both the economics department and the Sloan School of Management. He also has taught at Harvard.

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