Stanford Graduate School of Business

在本期《高层视角》访谈中，2026届MBA学生金塔雷·祖考斯凯特与Anthropic联合创始人兼总裁丹妮拉·阿莫迪展开对话。 丹妮拉分享了她从文学学位到联合创立全球最知名AI公司之一的非传统职业路径。她回顾了与兄长达里奥及五位同事离开OpenAI、创立Anthropic的历程，以及以"彻底责任"为核心的AI愿景。她坦诚剖析了AI安全在实践中的真实含义，商业成功与安全为何比人们想象的更一致，以及AI将如何重塑工作、教育和人际联结。 章节： 00:00:00 开场 00:00:37 从文学学位到硅谷 00:05:00 学习AI语言 00:06:52 创立Anthropic 00:08:56 选择能与之争论的联合创始人 00:11:31 AI安全的真实含义 00:16:40 AI时代的就业前景 00:19:15 为AI转型做好社会准备 00:21:23 硅谷之外的AI应用 00:24:00 与AI共存的未来 00:27:50 最重要的技能 00:30:00 最喜爱的AI应用场景 00:33:00 给新一代建设者的建议 00:35:35 问答：我们是否处于AI泡沫中？ 00:38:27 问答：政府监管与创新 00:40:35 问答：隐私与个人数据 00:43:40 快问快答 00:46:47 她收到过的最佳建议

Stanford Leadership Institute hosted Stanford political scientists to share their views on the mood of the electorate, likely outcomes in the House and Senate, and what the results imply for the country and Democratic and Republican parties. The conversation featured David Brady, Professor of Political Economy and Political Science, Emeritus, Stanford University and Douglas Rivers, the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor of Political Science, Stanford University; and Chief Scientist, YouGov. The conversation was moderated Robert Grady, MBA '88, Vice Chairman, Hoover Institution Board of Overseers.

Led by Applied AI Scholars and faculty advisors, AI@GSB is a dean’s initiative that leverages Stanford’s position at the intersection of business and technology to deliver cutting-edge, experiential learning to the Stanford GSB community. Founding scholars Alfredo Mendez, MBA '26, Celeste Bean, MBA '26, and Jenni Steiger, MBA '26, take the stage with faculty advisor Scott Brady, Sloan '00, to talk about the purpose behind the initiative and touch on the student experience.

What does it mean to grow a business...and grow impact? Dimensions of Impact follows Stanford Seed entrepreneurs whose work extends far beyond job creation and revenue generation. From tackling medicine shortages in underserved regions to providing inclusive education for children, these changemakers are redefining what business can do for communities and how their growth can expand their impact. Explore the ripple effects of entrepreneurial growth — from economic empowerment to geographic expansion and deep social change — in this short film from Stanford Seed, a Stanford Graduate School of Business institute that partners with entrepreneurs across Africa, South Asia, and Indonesia to scale businesses and transform lives. Learn more: seed.stanford.edu

The leaps and bounds made in AI in just the last three years have surprised even the experts, so hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen thought it might be time for another prophetic conversation about the future of this technology. Three years after their last conversation about AI with him, Jonathan and Jules sit down with Michal Kosinski, strategy and management professor at the University of Hong Kong. In this interview, they revisit some of their predictions from three years ago, arguing progress in large language models is dramatic but increasingly invisible to users. They also delve into big questions around why AI feels human and whether AI will one day “domesticate” humans. Submit your questions to the show here: https://bit.ly/AllElseEqual Find All Else Equal on the web: https://lauder.wharton.upenn.edu/allelse/

Lecturer Erik Ragatz, '95, MBA '01, senior advisor at Hellman & Friedman LLC ; Lecturer David Singer, MBA '88, Maverick Ventures investor; Lecturer Scott Brady, Sloan '00, founding partner at Innovation Endeavors; and Henry Gao, MBA '26, an investor-in-residence, converse over the GSB's new Initiative for Investing and the evolving investing landscape. Recorded on Oct. 2, 2026, as part of GSB Fall Reunions/All Alumni Day.

Andrew "Andy" Hall, '09, the Davies Family Professor of Political Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, speaks on "Building Political Superintelligence." Professor Hall touches on the evolution of his work at the GSB, his latest research on the intersection of AI and politics, and how AI may ultimately affect people's political decisions. Recorded on October 2, 2026, as part of GSB Fall Reunions/All Alumni Day.

Stanford Graduate School of Business's Corporations and Society Initiative (CASI) hosted a screening of Everyone Is Lying to You for Money, a documentary by actor, author, and filmmaker Ben McKenzie examining cryptocurrency, financial fraud, and the power of hype. This video features opening remarks from CASI Faculty Director Anat Admati, a welcome from Ben McKenzie, and a post-screening discussion with Anat Admati and Douglas Guilbeault, Stanford GSB Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior. Their conversation explores financial incentives, misleading marketing, social influence, and the broader implications of hype-driven markets for investors and society. Learn more about CASI: https://casi.stanford.edu/

In this View From The Top interview, Claudia Chen, MBA '27 speaks with Sam Altman, Co-Founder and CEO of OpenAI. Sam shares how he nearly became an investment banker instead of a startup founder, why he originally thought OpenAI would be his retirement project, and his hope for AI to usher in a new renaissance. He reflects on how AI's progress is shaping the conversation around safety, why cybersecurity risks deserve more attention, and why humans and their work will always matter. His advice for the students in the room? Stop chasing what was cool five years ago, and go build the new thing.

Sarah A. Soule, Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior, sits down with Bruce Cozadd, MBA '91, to connect, engage, and share her perspective. Recorded on Oct. 2, 2026, as part of GSB Fall Reunions/All Alumni Day.

William P. Barnett, the Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and 2026 Robert K. Jaedicke Faculty Award recipient, speaks on "The Sustainability Revolution." Bill Barnett presents his perspective on the changing landscape of sustainability and the role business leaders can play in shaping it. Recorded on Oct. 2, 2026, as part of GSB Fall Reunions/All Alumni Day.

In this episode of the Power to Truth web series, actor, author, and filmmaker Ben McKenzie discusses the evolving risks of cryptocurrency, the growing influence of the crypto industry on politics, and the potential consequences of stablecoins, financial speculation, and inadequate regulation. With Anat Admati, Stanford Graduate School of Business professor and faculty director of the Corporations and Society Initiative (CASI). Learn more about CASI: https://casi.stanford.edu/ Interested in learning more about CASI's activities, getting involved, or collaborating with us? Connect with us here: https://casi.stanford.edu/connect

Marcus Wandt, SEP ’26, has built his career by chasing challenges — from serving in the Swedish Army’s elite paratrooper unit to test-flying fighter jets and riding a SpaceX Falcon rocket into outer space.

Marcus Wandt, SEP ’26, has built his career by chasing challenges — from the Swedish Army’s elite paratrooper unit to test-flying fighter jets, and all the way to outer space. Conscripted into the Swedish military, Wandt chose the most demanding path available. “Word on the street was that the hardest, most challenging thing you could do was Airborne Rangers,” he says. “So I applied.” That characteristic drive led Wandt to become a fighter pilot, then a test pilot who took a new Saab aircraft on its inaugural flight, then one of 17 people selected for the European Space Agency from more than 22,500 applicants. In 2024, he spent 21 days aboard the International Space Station. “I would definitely go back,” he says. “It was magical.” Back on Earth, Wandt faced a new challenge. As Saab’s chief innovation officer, he went from piloting aircraft to steering an entire organization. To gain the necessary tools and perspective, he enrolled in the Stanford Executive Program. “I was hoping to get an understanding of how people in those roles think: what is important to them, and what they focus on,” he says. What Wandt didn’t expect was how much he’d learn from his fellow students. “It was good to have people from 39 different countries and all those different backgrounds giving different perspectives,” he says. For a leader responsible for strategy across a global business — and in an industry where a space station takes 15 countries to build — that breadth proved especially valuable. “If you have several perspectives and you synthesize them, you have a really good foundation.” Read the entire story here: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/experience/news-history/astronaut-lands-stanford-gsb

In this View From The Top interview, Grant Stierwalt, MBA '27, speaks with Marc Stad, MBA '08, and Founder of Dragoneer Investment Group. Marc shares his path from a family where no one finished high school to Harvard, McKinsey, TPG, and a surprisingly lucrative MBA internship at the Investment Group of Santa Barbara. He reflects on how mentorship shaped his career, the principles behind Dragoneer’s concentrated, long-term approach, and the mistakes made during the 2021 bubble. He also offers his perspective on where AI sits in the technology cycle and advice for future leaders.

Ben Tossell joined the GSB community for an interactive session on how to create the best personal workflows and how he is using the latest AI tools. Ben previously founded no-code education platform Makerpad, which was acquired by Zapier, and now writes, builds and invests at the frontier of AI, with a particular focus on helping non-technical people use new tools to build and work more effectively.

Rick Osterloh, MBA ’00, joined Dean Sarah Soule for a wide-ranging conversation on how AI is reshaping the products we use, the way we interact with technology, and the business models behind it.

What does it take to invest in a startup with both impact priorities and a viable business model? Students and alumni reflect on their experience with the GSB Impact Fund: from finding deals and getting to know founders to distilling six months of due diligence into a six-minute investment committee pitch. Hear how hands-on investing brought classroom lessons in leadership to life. Evans Kofi Adanya, MBA ‘26; Andy Coen, MBA ‘27; Dandi Hardy, MBA ‘26; Monique Malcolm-Hay, MBA ‘23; Valerie Shen, MBA ‘19; Zooey Carter Wilkinson, MBA ‘25 https://gsbimpactfund.stanford.edu/

What does impact investing mean? Hear how the students and alumni of Stanford GSB’s Impact Fund approach funding early-stage companies to tackle pressing social and environmental challenges. They know start-ups with impact at the core of their business models can pursue both strong financial returns and positive social change, and talk about why connecting founders with the right investors matters. Featuring: Rohan Angadi, MBA ‘26; Andy Coen, MBA ‘27; Dandi Hardy, MBA ‘26;Monique Malcolm-Hay, MBA ‘23; Heidi Patel, MBA ‘04; Judy Park, MBA ‘20; Zooey Carter Wilkinson, MBA ‘25 https://gsbimpactfund.stanford.edu/

What does it take to invest for both financial returns and measurable social and environmental impact? At Stanford Graduate School of Business, students learn by doing it. The GSB Impact Fund is a student-managed evergreen fund that takes students through the full impact investing process, from sourcing and diligence to pitching deals to an investment committee of faculty and alumni expert investors. See highlights of the Impact Fund's culminating investment committee meeting, as students presented their recommendations and the fund marked 10 years. Featuring: Lyndsey Boucherle, MSx ‘18; Andy Coen, MBA ‘27; Heidi Patel, Lecturer and MBA ‘04; Judy Park, MBA ‘20; Ilya Strebulaev, David S. Lobel Professor of Private Equity and Professor of Finance https://gsbimpactfund.stanford.edu/

Striving for high ideals doesn’t mean we won’t fall short. Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella says it’s about acknowledging the gap — then aiming to close it. “We’re always going to be imperfect,” he says. “The question is: Are we working to bridge that gap?” Nadella was interviewed as part of the View From The Top speaker series, which features MBA students in conversation with prominent leaders about leadership, core values, and lessons learned throughout their careers.

Much of the literature on how climate change will impact GDP estimates that the economic will be very large. Moreover, the estimates vary widely, with some studies predicting catastrophic economic consequences of global warming. Are those estimates reasonable? Hosts and finance professors Jonathan Berk and Jules van Binsbergen have written a new paper with Stanford research fellow Cem Kozanoglu called Permanent Climate Change and GDP. In their study, they examine the long-term effects of climate change on economic activity by looking at the effect on individual productivity of choosing to move within the US, and come up with the surprising result that existing estimates may grossly overstate the economic cost of permanent climate change. On this episode, Jonathan and Jules discuss their research findings, including addressing why current research methods might not accurately measure the effect on GDP of climate change and why internal migration patterns in the U.S. might be a better alternative approach to estimating the economic effect of climate change. Submit your questions to the show here: https://bit.ly/AllElseEqual Find All Else Equal on the web: https://lauder.wharton.upenn.edu/allelse/

On September 24, 2026, the World Bank and Stanford held a conference on the World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence. Here Anja Sautmann, Co-author of World Development Report 2026 and Senior Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank Group, provides a more in-depth perspective on backend opportunities for AI, prioritizing monitoring and evaluation, and research collaborations for social impact. She emphasizes how AI offers options where today there are none and the need for higher quality data.

On September 24, 2026, the World Bank and Stanford held a conference on the World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence. Here Andrew Ng, Founder, DeepLearning.AI, and Adjunct Professor, Stanford University, provides a more in-depth perspective on the importance of open source models and how model adaptation is key for developing economies.

On September 24, 2026, the World Bank and Stanford held a conference on the World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence. Here Somik V. Lall, Director of Strategy, Office of the World Bank Group Chief Economist, provides a more in-depth perspective on the priorities for policymakers in emerging economies, the importance of digital complements, how AI's risks are multiplying and the need for trust, and the role of governments as enablers.

On September 24, 2026, the World Bank and Stanford held a conference on the World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence. Here Indermit Gill, Former Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank Group, provides a more in-depth perspective on the case for optimism and adaptation, how developing countries are prepared for new technologies, how AI is having an impact now, the critical differences for developing economies, and the importance of staying nimble.

On September 24, 2026, the World Bank and Stanford held a conference on the World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence. Here Joshua Blumenstock, Chancellor’s Professor, U.C. Berkeley School of Information and the Goldman School of Public Policy, provides a more in-depth perspective on starting with the problem that needs solving with AI, how the context of model deployment matters, the critical role of complements and deployment design, and policy priorities for developing countries.

On September 24, 2026, the World Bank and Stanford held a conference on the World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence. Here Ufuk Akcigit, Co-Academic Lead, World Development Report 2026, and Deputy Chief Economist and Director of Private Markets, Development Economics, World Bank Group, provides a more in-depth perspective on AI's staying power, the mismatch between AI needs and efforts in developing countries, the need for AI dynamism, how developing economies are in the driver's seat, and increasing policymaker knowledge of AI.

On September 24, 2026, the World Bank and Stanford held a conference on the World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence. Here Christopher Tonetti, Associate Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business, provides a more in-depth perspective on historical automation benefits, the importance of weak links to AI productivity, adoption barriers, and trade benefits.

On September 24, 2026, the World Bank and Stanford held a conference on the World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence. Here Gaurav Nayyar, Director, World Development Report 2026, World Bank Group, provides a more in-depth perspective on how AI should be adapted to its local context and how AI is delivering impact on public services in developing economies today. He also discusses AI's adoption and intensity of use considerations, its complementary versus disruptive nature, and the critical need for digital and analog components.