Peter DeMarzo is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Faculty Director for Educational Technology. His research is in the area of corporate finance, asset securitization, and contracting, as well as market structure and regulation. Recent work has examined issues of the optimal design of securities, the regulation of insider trading and broker-dealers, and the influence of information asymmetries on corporate investment.

General Atlantic Professor of Marketing

A social psychologist and marketer, Jennifer Aaker is the General Atlantic Professor of Marketing at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Her research spans time, money and happiness. She is widely published in the leading scholarly journals in psychology and marketing, and her work has been featured in a variety of media including The Economist, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BusinessWeek, Forbes, CBS Money Watch, NPR, Science, Inc, and Cosmopolitan.

Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations, Stanford Graduate School of Business; and Affiliated Faculty, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, focuses on competition within and among corporations and how competition affects the founding, growth, performance, survival, and innovativeness of organizations.

Dan Klein teaches Improvisation full time at Stanford University where he is on the faculty of the Drama Department and the Graduate School of Business and teaches at the d.school. In 2009, Dan was named Stanford Teacher of the Year by the Student’s Association.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Professor of Electronic Business and Commerce, and Management; Co-director of the Value Chain Innovation Initiative

Haim Mendelson leads the School's efforts in studying electronic business and its interaction with organizations and markets, and incorporating their implications into the School's curriculum and research. His research interests include electronic commerce, organizational IQ, product and service pricing and customization, and electronic markets. He has introduced the "Organizational IQ" concept which quantifies an organization's ability to use information to make quick and effective decisions. His papers have been published in leading journals in the areas of information systems, management science, finance, economics, and statistics.

The Adams Distinguished Professor of Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business, is known worldwide for her research into distributed team and learning environments. Her research interests include decision making, distributed collaboration, team-based learning, negotiation, and team performance. She is coauthor of Negotiating Rationally (Free Press, 1992). She is the Director of the Influence and Negotiation Strategies Executive Program, Director of the Managing Teams for Innovation and Success Executive Program and Codirector of the Executive Program for Women Leaders.

Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University where he has taught since 1979. 

Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources; Professor of Sociology (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences; Academic Director, Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate; Director of the Managing Talent for Strategic Advantage Executive Program; Codirector of the Customer-Focused Innovation Executive Program

Hayagreeva Rao has published widely in the fields of management and sociology and studies the social and cultural causes of organizational change. In his research, he studies three sub-processes of organizational change: a) creation of new social structures, b) the transformation of existing social structures, and c) the dissolution of existing social structures. His recent work investigates the role of social movements as motors of organizational change in professional and organizational fields.

MBA Class of 1978 Lecturer in Organizational Behavior

Sanwa Bank, Limited, Professor of Marketing; Director of the Strategic Marketing Management Executive Program

Baba Shiv's research is in the area of neuroeconomics. His research has predominantly focused on the role of the brain's liking and wanting systems in shaping decisions, consumption experiences, and the memories of these experiences. The nature of the issues that he examines are: Does being denied something make people pursue it more hotly but also simultaneously like it less? Does a wine's price tag price affect the pleasure one experiences?

Baba Shiv teaches courses at the GSB that build on his research interests. Examples of some of the courses that he teaches include "The Frinky Science of the Mind" and "Entrepreneurial Ventures in Luxury Markets."

Robert A. and Elizabeth R. Jeffe Professor of Organizational Behavior; Professor of Sociology (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences; Codirector of Executive Leadership Development: Analysis to Action Program; Faculty Director, Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies; Susan Ford Dorsey Faculty Fellow for 2014-2015

Jesper Sørensen specializes in the dynamics of organizational and strategic change, and their implications for individuals and their careers. His research on firm outcomes has focused on the impact of organizational structure and culture on organizational learning, performance, and innovation. His work on the dynamics of teams has led to new insights concerning how people respond to changes in the racial composition of their workgroups. Currently, Sørensen is engaged in a large-scale project on the determinants of entrepreneurial behavior that examines several previously unanswered questions, such as how work environments shape rates of entrepreneurship.

Sarah A. Soule is the Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Professor of Sociology (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences. She has taught courses with the Stanford d.school and is also Faculty Director for the Executive Program on Social Entrepreneurship.

Jonathan B. Lovelace Professor of Organizational Behavior; Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Director of the Executive Program in Leadership: The Effective Use of Power

Professor Tiedens' research is primarily in two areas: (1) the psychology of social hierarchies, and (2) the social context of emotion. She is specifically interested in the psychological processes involved in the creation and maintenance of hierarchical relationships. Her work on emotion is concerned with the effects of emotion on social judgment and with relations between social roles and emotions.

Charles A. Holloway Professor of Operations, Information and Technology; Director, Center for Entrepreneurial Studies

Stefanos Zenios is the Charles Holloway Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Faculty Director of its Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. His research covers both innovation and health care: he examines innovation as a process with discrete steps and specific outcomes, and studies health care startups and the attributes associated with their success. He designed and teaches Startup Garage, an experiential course in which students apply the innovation processes that drive Silicon Valley’s ecosystem. Zenios also oversees the GSB Venture Studio, a facility enabling graduate students across disciplines to apply classroom learnings to create high-impact ventures.