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Matthew Abrahams
Lecturer
BioMatt Abrahams is a passionate, collaborative and innovative educator and coach. He has published research articles on cognitive planning, persuasion, and interpersonal communication.
Matt recently published the second edition of his book Speaking Up Without Freaking Out, a book written to help the millions of people who suffer from anxiety around speaking in public. Additionally, Matt developed a software package that provides instant, proscriptive feedback to presenters. Prior to teaching, Matt held senior leadership positions in several leading software companies, where he created and ran global training and development organizations.
Matt is also Co-Founder and Principal at Bold Echo Communications Solutions, a presentation and communication skills company based in Silicon Valley that helps people improve their presentation skills. Matt has worked with executives to help prepare and present keynote addresses and IPO road shows, conduct media interviews, and deliver TED talks.
He is currently a member of the Management Communication Association (where he received a “Rising Star” award) as well as the National and Western States Communication Associations. Matt received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Stanford and his graduate degree in communication studies from UC Davis. -
Avidit Acharya
Associate Professor of Political Science and, by courtesy, of Political Economy at the Graduate School of Business
BioAvidit Acharya is an associate professor of Political Science and an associate professor, by courtesy, in the Graduate School of Business. His research specializes in the fields of political economy and game theory, especially as it applies to topics in comparative politics and international relations. Before coming to Stanford, Avi taught for two years at the University of Rochester.
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Burton Alper
Lecturer
BioBurt has dedicated his entire career to making exceptional communication a competitive advantage. He helps leaders articulate their ideas more effectively through improved content development, storytelling, and presentation techniques.
He serves as a Lecturer and Presentation Coach at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. There, he helps students on all forms of communication ranging from business writing to oral presentations. As part of Stanford’s IGNITE faculty, Burt works with entrepreneurs in India and China to help them deliver compelling investor pitch presentations. He has worked with senior leaders in Stanford’s Athletic Department and several distinguished faculty members at Stanford’s School of Medicine.
Burt also consults with entrepreneurs, executives and corporate teams outside of Stanford who are preparing for high-stakes and high-profile presentations. His coaching ranges from initial content strategy through delivery coaching and anxiety management.
Prior to his work in the presentation coaching arena, Burt spent 12 years at Catchword Branding, a firm he co-founded in 1998. During his tenure there, he served as the head of strategy and business development. -
Jovanna Alvarez
MBA, expected graduation 2021
BioJovanna Alvarez is pursuing her MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Most recently, she was the Investment Fund Manager and a Business Development Advisor at Ongoza, a startup accelerator for early-stage businesses in Kenya, providing one year of customized weekly business coaching and access to venture funding in order to propel growth. Previously, she was an investment banker at Citi where she spent two years in the Media & Telecom team in NYC and one year in the Madrid, Spain office.
Jovanna holds a B.A. in Public Policy with a specialization in Business & Finance from the University of Chicago. While at UChicago, she served as Co-President of the Women in Business organization, worked at the UChicago Hospitals in the Office of Diversity & Inclusion and was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity and the UChicago Careers in Business Program.
She is a member of, and remains actively involved with, five nonprofit organizations: Questbridge, Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), Sponsorship for Educational Opportunity (SEO) and Robert Toigo Foundation.
Jovanna’s professional interests include exploring the interconnection between measurable social and environmental impact and competitive financial returns in order to create meaningful long-term change. -
Kuldeep Andhare
Affiliate, Graduate School of Business - Executive Education
BioLeader with total of 15+ years of experience in customer facing role who often plays critical pivotal roles in assisting Electric, Gas, and Water utilities to meet their goals. Accomplished sales professional, public speaker, presenter, business developer and functional architect. Well established reputation in Oracle community and Utilities they serve with deep experience in Utilities Core Applications. Over 15 years, worked with 75+ Utilities across North America, Europe and Asia by assisting them adopt cutting edge technology. Goal is to become industry leader by going beyond existing boundaries by leveraging years of Utilities experience along with Stanford Executive leadership education. Passionate about AMR, AMI, Smart Grid, Renewable energy, microgrid, VPP and next generation technology and solution which can be aligned with Energy and Power industry for sustainable future.
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Coley Andrews
Lecturer
BioColey is the Managing Partner and co-founder of Pacific Lake Partners, LLC. Pacific Lake invests exclusively in search fund entrepreneurs to support the entrepreneurs' efforts to identify, acquire, and grow a small company. Founded in 2009, Pacific Lake is the largest exclusive search fund investment firm and has invested in over 200 entrepreneurs worldwide. Coley oversees the firm's entrepreneur partnering, acquisition investment committee, and operational efforts to support first-time CEOs learn how to manage and build a company. Pacific Lake manages over $500 million focused on search fund investing. Coley serves on the board of multiple search fund acquired companies including Morningside Translations, IS Entrega, Circle Surrogacy, and Inspired eLearning. Prior to co-founding Pacific Lake, Coley worked at The Parthenon Group and Golden Gate Capital. Coley is also a member of The Boston Children's Hospital Board of Philanthropic Advisors and active contributor at business schools around the globe on the topic of Entrepreneurship through Acquisition and Management of Growing Companies.
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Jana Basili, MCC
Executive Coach & Experiential Course Facilitator, Experiential Course Support
Current Role at StanfordExecutive Coach
Master Facilitator and Trainer for GSB Alumnae Women's Circles Program
Master Facilitator and Trainer for GSB Leadership Development Curriculum -
Edward Batista
Lecturer
BioI'm an executive coach and a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. At the GSB I teach courses aimed at helping MBA students better manage themselves and further develop their leadership and interpersonal skills.
I currently teach The Art of Self-Coaching (OB527), a course that I designed and launched in 2015. The course aims to help professionals and aspiring leaders be more intentional in managing their continued growth and development. From 2017 to 2020 I taught The Art of Self-Coaching in Fall, Winter, and Spring Quarters, but starting in 2021 my other responsibilities will obligate me to teach just once a year in Spring Quarter.
In 2016 and 2017 I also taught Interpersonal Dynamics (OB374), the school's most popular elective and known to most students as Touchy Feely. I spent a decade as a T-group facilitator in Touchy Feely, and the course had a profound influence on my life and work. When I accepted the GSB's invitation to add a third section of Self-Coaching in 2017, I decided to resign from the Touchy Feely faculty, as my other commitments precluded me from teaching more than one class per Quarter.
From 2007 to 2016 at the GSB I provided individual coaching and led teams in the Arbuckle Leadership Fellows Program and taught sections of Leadership Labs, both of which I helped to launch in 2007, and facilitated T-groups in Touchy Feely.
As an executive coach I work with senior leaders who are facing a challenge or would like to be more effective or fulfilled in their roles. Most of my clients are technology company CEOs, and I've worked with leaders in fields from accounting to investing to the law. Issues I often address with clients include managing relationships with key employees and others, improving exec team dynamics, transitioning from technical expert to leader, evolving company culture, and better self-care.
My work as a coach began after a 15-year career in management, during which I took two years off to attend the GSB and helped launch three new organizations. I write about coaching and professional development at www.edbatista.com. I'm a co-author of the HBR Guides to Coaching Employees and Delivering Effective Feedback, and I'm currently writing a book on self-coaching for HBR Press.
I'm married to Amy Wright, and we lived in San Francisco from 1990 to 2020, when we relocated to a farm 40 miles north of the city. In addition to my MBA from Stanford, I earned a BA in History, magna cum laude, from Brown University. -
Mohsen Bayati
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at the Graduate School of Business and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
On Leave from 03/15/2021 To 12/31/2021Current Research and Scholarly Interests1) Healthcare management: I am interested in improving healthcare delivery using data-driven modeling and decision-making.
2) Network models and message-passing algorithms: I work on graphical modeling ideas motivated from statistical physics and their applications in statistical inference.
3) Personalized decision-making: I work on machine learning and statistical challenges of personalized decision-making. The problems that I have worked on are primarily motivated by healthcare applications. -
Sven Beiker
Lecturer, Graduate School of Business - Academic Administration
BioSven Beiker is a Lecturer in Management at the GSB, and the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Mobility, an independent consulting & advisory firm. He covers the electrification, automation, connectivity, and sharing of automobiles through the lens of new technologies and business models. This is reflected in his teaching at the GSB as well as in his professional engagements. Prior to his independent consulting work, he served as an Expert Consultant for mobility topics at McKinsey & Company for 2.5 years.
Dr. Beiker is also the former Executive Director of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford, an industry affiliates program that he launched in 2008 together with Stanford Professors Gerdes, Nass, and Thrun. Before coming to Stanford, Dr. Beiker worked at the BMW Group for more than 13 years. Between 1995 and 2008 he pursued responsibilities in technology scouting, innovation management, systems design, and series development. He primarily applied his expertise to chassis and powertrain projects, which also provided him with profound insights into the industry’s processes and best practices. In addition, he worked in three major automotive and technology locations: Germany, Silicon Valley, and Detroit.
Dr. Beiker received his MS (1995) and PhD (1999) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University in Braunschweig, Germany. He published various technical papers and holds several patents in the fields of vehicle dynamics and powertrain technology. -
Eric Bettinger
Professor of Education, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Professor, by courtesy, of Economics at the Graduate School of Business
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsBettinger, Eric and Bridget Long. “Simplification and Incentives: A Randomized Experiment to Increase College Savings."
Antonio, Anthony, Eric Bettinger, Brent Evans, Jesse Foster, and Rie Kijima. “The Effect of High School College Advisement: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Texas.”
Bettinger, Eric, Michael Kremer, Maurice Kugler, and Juan Saavedra. “The Effect of Educational Vouchers in Colombia on Students’ Labor Market Outcomes.”
Bettinger, Eric, Oded Gurantz, Laura Kawano, and Bruce Sacerdote. "The Long-run Impacts of Merit Aid: Evidence from California's Cal-Grant."
Bettinger, Eric, Lindsay Fox, Susanna Loeb, and Eric Taylor, “Changing Distributions: How Online College Classes Alter Student and Professor Performance.” -
Scott Brady
Lecturer
BioScott Brady is a founding partner at Innovation Endeavors, an early stage venture capital firm with offices in Palo Alto and New York City,. Previously Scott was a serial entrepreneur and co-founded three publicly traded tech companies.
In his role as an investor, Scott looks to partner with entrepreneurs who are tackling technically difficult challenges that are capital intensive and truly transformative. These companies leverage a proliferation of data and new computation and automation tools to run more experiments; learn and iterate faster, better, and cheaper; and speed up the growth cycle.
Scott has led Innovation Endeavors investments in multiple Stanford Graduate School of Business-founded companies, including Plenty, which is driving the evolution of the $3 trillion agriculture industry with indoor, vertical farms that are powered by machine learning, data science, and automation; Clear Metal, which is leveraging AI and machine learning to clean up disorganized, dirty data in the supply chain, making it easier to predict problems and manage complexity; and Citrine, which uses AI and massive data sets to accelerate materials discovery and product development.
Prior to joining Innovation Endeavors, Scott was the chief executive officer of Slice, where he was also a co-founder and board member. Prior to working at Slice, he was co- founder and chief executive officer of FiberTower, co-founder and chief technology officer of Clarus Corp., and co-founder and chief technology officer of SQLFinancials.
Scott is also a lecturer in management at Stanford GSB, where he teaches about management and new venture formation. Additionally, he serves on the school’s Advisory Council and is chairman of the advisory board for its MSx Program.
Scott earned his master’s in management from Stanford GSB and a bachelor’s in finance, with high honors, from the University of Florida. Scott holds multiple software and technology patents. -
Dominique Brassey
Casual - Non-Exempt, Graduate School of Business - MBA Program Office
BioDom Brassey leads growth for Lesbians Who Tech (+ Allies), a global community of 30,000+ queer women and gender nonconforming people in tech (and the people who love us) in over 37 cities around the world. Lesbians Who Tech promotes the visibility, leadership, and influence of LGBTQ women and trans/nonbinary people in tech.
Dom earned an MA in Speech and Communication Studies at San Francisco State University, focusing on collaborative group ethnography, visual anthropology, multidisciplinary media production, and participatory action research. She taught Human Communication and college-level reading and composition through The Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison from 2005-2013, focusing on intercultural discovery, intrapersonal awareness, and structured argumentation.
In tech, Dom has organized over 10 Tech Inclusion Summits (2016-2017) to strengthen inclusive tech ecosystems in major and emerging tech talent markets through Tech Jobs Tour, in partnership with Shift7 and The White House Tech Hire Initiative. She is a proud alum of business accelerator 500 Startups (2015), and Dev Bootcamp immersive web development program (2016).
Catch Dom IRL:
Emceeing events, facilitating massive Techie Speed Mentoring sessions, running Bay Area trails, waxing poetic about political nuance and intersectional identities, and living the legacy of pioneering gender-nonconforming menswear clothing startup Saint Harridan, Inc. -
Erik Brynjolfsson
Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor, Senior Fellow at Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, at SIEPR & Professor, by courtesy, of Economics & of Operations, Information & Technology & of Economics at the GSB
BioErik Brynjolfsson is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab at HAI. He is also the Ralph Landau Senior Fellow at SIEPR, and a Professor, by courtesy, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and at the Department of Economics. Prof. Brynjolfsson is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and co-author of six books, including The Second Machine Age. His research, teaching and speaking focus on the effects of digital technologies, including AI, on the economy and business.
