Post by Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Stanford GSB’s hub for entrepreneurship has a new name: the Stanford GSB Grousbeck-Holloway Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, in honor of its visionary founders, H. Irving Grousbeck and Charles A. Holloway, who have taught and mentored generations of students since the center opened in 1996. More than 100 alumni and friends raised the funds to name the center and support its teaching and research mission. “They did it because they believe in what the center is doing,” said Dean Sarah Soule, “and because they want to make sure that it will continue to do it.” At the time the center launched, Stanford GSB was what Grousbeck called an entrepreneurship “desert,” offering just three courses in the subject. Today, the school offers more than 50 courses and supports research on startups and venture investing. Thousands of alumni have founded companies, contributing to a Stanford entrepreneurial ecosystem valued in the tens of trillions of dollars. At the celebration, lecturers Jim Ellis, MBA ’93, and Kevin Taweel, MBA ’92, offered a toast. “Chuck and Irv, you did far more than kindle a flame,” Ellis said. “You started a bonfire. And from this place, students will carry those embers into the world, igniting new ideas, new ventures, creating new opportunities for generations to come.” https://lnkd.in/gE4b3NSU