美国斯坦福大学商学院院长加斯·塞隆纳简介

加斯·塞隆纳（Garth Saloner）独家接受网易财经《问答商学院》专访

加斯·塞隆纳（Garth Saloner）现任斯坦福大学商学院第九任院长。1990年始任教于该院，曾两度荣获MBA杰出教师奖，讲授管理学、战略学、创业与电子商务。

塞隆纳一直是管理教育理论发展方面的领军人物。他是斯坦福大学商学院2007年开始使用的MBA创新课程的主要设计人。作为跨学科教育理论的倡导者，塞隆纳发起了暑期创业学院。这是一个旨在为生命科学、化学及其他非商科研究生讲授一般管理理论和创新创业技能的教育项目。他为本科生、MBA学生、斯隆硕士学生及博士生教授相关课程，还在世界范围内的高级管理人员培训班上讲课。

塞隆纳参与了该院诸多新项目的工作。1993年至1996年，他曾任学术副院长及研究与课程开发主任。他是斯坦福计算机工业项目创始人之一，该项目主要研究世界范围内的计算机产业。他也是1999年电子商业与商务中心创始人之一，该中心连续五年在此新领域的研究传播与教学方面起到了重要作用。

2001年起，他休假两年并一度担任数个初创企业的顾问、董事或者投资人。休假完毕，他开始讲授创业理论课程，并于2004年担任商学院创业研究中心主任。

2006年，他担任学院校友评论委员会主任，该委员会曾就MBA课程进行了大幅调整。此举为该课程项目提供了更多关键思维、领导力拓展以及全球工作经验方面的要求。考虑到MBA入学学生的经验日趋多样复杂，新课程还就必选课程为其提供了定制菜单选项。

塞隆纳一直是全球研究与社会创新领域，尤其是研究创新创业在推动欠发达国家经济发展中的作用方面的领军人物。他鼓励在课程中添加全球性的教学案例，比如加纳的微观财政教学案例。他曾参与学生们到印度、中国、泰国、菲律宾、约旦、肯尼亚、乌干达和东非的实习调研项目。除了关键分析思维研讨班外，作为院长，他还讲授创业之女性视角课程。

作为一名经济学家，塞隆纳以其在构筑电子商务经济学基础理论的网络效应方面的开创性研究而知名。他的研究侧重于创业、战略管理、组织经济学、竞争战略及反垄断经济学。他的最新成果致力于研究公司设立及其战略变更原理。

塞隆纳祖籍南非，从约翰内斯堡金山大学获得商学学士学位和MBA荣誉学位。1978年至1982年，从斯坦福大学获得统计学硕士学位、经济学硕士学位及经济学、商学和公共政策博士学位。1982年，加入麻省理工学院担任助理教授，后成为经济学系和斯隆管理学院终身全职教授。曾任教于哈佛大学。2009年9月，担任斯坦福大学商学院院长。塞隆纳与妻子马琳育有三个女儿，她们都有斯坦福大学学位。

Garth Saloner is the ninth dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business. A faculty member since 1990 and a two-time winner of the Distinguished Teaching Award from MBA students, he has taught management, strategy, entrepreneurship, and e-commerce.

Saloner has been a leader in the evolution of management education. He was a key architect of the Business School’s innovative new MBA curriculum introduced in 2007. A supporter of a more multidisciplinary approach to education, Saloner also launched the Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship, a program to teach general management and entrepreneurial skills to graduate students in life sciences, chemistry and other non-business fields. He has taught courses to undergraduates, MBA students, Sloan Master’s students, and doctoral students. He also has taught in Executive Education programs around the world.

Saloner has figured in many of the School’s new programs. He served as associate dean for academic affairs, and as director for research and curriculum development from 1993 to 1996. He was one of the founders of the Stanford Computer Industry Project, a major study of the worldwide computer industry, and a founder of the Center for Electronic Business and Commerce in 1999, which, for five years, was instrumental in disseminating research and teaching in the new field.

He took a two-year leave in 2001 to spend time as an advisor, board member, or investor with a number of startups. Upon returning, he taught entrepreneurship and became director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Business School in 2004.

In 2006, he led the faculty-alumni review committee that undertook a major overhaul of the MBA curriculum. The result injected more critical thinking, leadership development, and a global experience requirement into the program. The new curriculum also created a tailored menu of options for required courses to account for the increasingly diverse pre-MBA experiences of entering students.

Saloner has been a champion of global studies and social innovation, especially the role of entrepreneurship as an engine for growth in the developing world. He encouraged the inclusion of global cases into the curriculum, such as one on microfinance in Ghana. He joined student study trips to India, China, Thailand, the Philippines, Jordan, Egypt, Kenya, Uganda, and East Africa. He also championed the Women’s Perspectives on Entrepreneurship course, which, in addition to a Critical Analytical Thinking seminar, he continues to teach as dean.

As an economist, Saloner has been known for his pioneering work on network effects, which underlie much of the economics of electronic commerce and business. His research has focused on entrepreneurship, strategic management, organizational economics, competitive strategy, and antitrust economics. His most recent work has been devoted to understanding how firms set and change strategy.

A native of South Africa, Saloner received a BCom (bachelor of commerce) and MBA (with distinction) from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He 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. He became dean of Stanford Business School in September 2009. Saloner and his wife, Marlene, have three daughters, all of whom have Stanford degrees.