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Debra Schifrin
Casual - Other Teaching Staff
BioDebra Schifrin designs and leads corporate workshops on leadership, communication, collaboration, agility, storytelling, and creativity. At Stanford Graduate School of Business, she co-designed, piloted and teaches the school’s first improv-based MBA management course. The course empowers students to become better leaders, managers, and team members. It is one of the only such MBA courses in the world. She is co-creating and teaching a new MBA course in Spring 2021,"Creativity and the Business Ecosystem." Debra has written and published over 80 Stanford and Harvard business cases, which are taught in MBA classes at the GSB and at other business schools. The topics of her business cases include strategy; marketing; product and social innovation; humor; and storytelling.
Before joining Stanford, Debra spent 11 years as a reporter, director and producer for National Public Radio and Marketplace. She produced thousands of breaking news and feature stories for the NPR flagship news program All Things Considered and directed the broadcast. Her stories and commentaries aired on All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Marketplace. A long-time actor and improvisor, Debra performs most weekends in San Francisco in many formats, including improvised musicals and improvised Star Trek. -
Kevin Schulman
Professor of Medicine (Hospital Medicine), by courtesy, of Health Policy and of Operations, Information and Technology at the Graduate School of Business
BioDr. Schulman serves as Professor of Medicine, Associate Chair of Business Development and Strategy in the Department of Medicine, Director of Industry Partnerships and Education for the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and, by courtesy, Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He is the Director of Stanford's master degree program, the Master of Science in Clinical Informatics Management.
Dr. Schulman’s research interests include organizational innovation in health care, health care policy and health economics. With over 500 publications, Kevin Schulman has had a broad impact on health policy (h-index = 80). His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Annals of Internal Medicine. He is a member of the editorial/advisory boards of the American Heart Journal, Editor in Chief of Health Policy, Management and Innovation (www.HMPI.Org), and Senior Associate Editor of Health Services Research.
Prior to coming to Stanford, Dr. Schulman served as a Professor of Medicine at Duke University, directed the Health Sector Management Program at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business for a dozen years, created and directed the Duke University Master’s of Management in Clinical Informatics Program, and served as a Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School.
He is a co-founder of Bivarus (exit January, 2018), co-founder and Managing Member of Faculty Connection, LLC., and is a Board Member of Grid Therapeutics.
He is an elected member of ASCI and AAP.
He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, the New York University School of Medicine, and The Wharton Health Care Management Program. -
John Michael Scull
Lecturer
BioJohn Scull, Lecturer in Management and teaches STRAMGT 356, Startup Garage: Design.
Scull is a co-founding Managing Director of Southern Cross Venture Partners with offices in Palo Alto, Sydney and Shanghai (through a partnership with Softbank China Venture Capital). He is also currently an Investment Committee member of Sydney-based Blackbird Ventures. Previously he was a Venture Partner and Investment Committee member of the venture capital firm Allen & Buckeridge. He has served on the boards of several private and public companies and was CEO of both Macromind (which merged to become Macromedia and later acquired by Adobe) and PF Magic (acquired by the Learning Company). Earlier in his career he was a marketing executive at Apple where he helped launch the Macintosh personal computer and led Apple’s Desktop Publishing efforts. Scull received his MBA from Harvard University and Bachelor degree from University of Oklahoma.
He was born and raised in Indonesia and Singapore and enjoys travel, golf, swimming, listening to a good podcast while walking the dog, french wine, and the occasional margarita :) -
Robert E. Siegel
Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsRobert Siegel researches strategy and innovation in both large and small companies, as well as the opportunities and challenges that technological change brings to these firms. Additionally, Robert teaches product management and product development best practices and methods, as well as entrepreneurial finance over the life-cycle of growing companies.
