Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Education

Renowned Faculty

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  Brian Lowery

  The Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior

  Lowery is a professor of organizational behavior and a social psychologist by training. He received his doctorate from UCLA in 2001 with a minor in statistical methods.

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  Brian Lowery

  The Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior

  Lowery is a professor of organizational behavior and a social psychologist by training. He received his doctorate from UCLA in 2001 with a minor in statistical methods.

  Lowery works to change the way people interact with each other in the world. At Stanford GSB, he is currently driving an initiative to shape enlightened and purposeful leaders for a diverse society, and in so doing, to define the meaning and nature of leadership itself. He is a proponent of University collaborations and is actively looking to develop Stanford GSB’s capacity to serve Stanford departments’ needs in facilitation, coaching, experiential learning design, and leadership development.

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  Neil Malhotra

  The Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy

  Neil Malhotra is The Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Stanford University Department of Political Science. He serves as the Louise and Claude N. Rosenberg, Jr. Director of the Center for Social Innova...

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  Neil Malhotra

  The Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy

  Neil Malhotra is The Edith M. Cornell Professor of Political Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Stanford University Department of Political Science. He serves as the Louise and Claude N. Rosenberg, Jr. Director of the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford GSB.

  He has authored over 60 articles on numerous topics including American politics, political behavior, and survey methodology. His research has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among other outlets. He currently serves as an associate editor of Public Opinion Quarterly and the Journal of Experimental Political Science.

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  Ken Shotts

  The David S. and Ann M. Barlow Professor of Political Economy

  Kenneth W. Shotts is The David S. and Ann M. Barlow Professor of Political Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He received his BA in political science from Stanford in 1993 and his PhD from Stanford GSB in 1999.

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  Ken Shotts

  The David S. and Ann M. Barlow Professor of Political Economy

  Kenneth W. Shotts is The David S. and Ann M. Barlow Professor of Political Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He received his BA in political science from Stanford in 1993 and his PhD from Stanford GSB in 1999.

  In addition to his time at Stanford, he has taught at Northwestern and the University of Michigan, and has been a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution, Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

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  Sarah Soule

  The Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

  Soule is the Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and senior associate dean for academic affairs. Her major areas of interest are organizational theory, social movements, and political sociology.

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  Sarah Soule

  The Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

  Soule is the Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and senior associate dean for academic affairs. Her major areas of interest are organizational theory, social movements, and political sociology.

  Soule has written two books, the first with Cambridge University Press, entitled "Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility," and the second with Norton, called "A Primer on Social Movements." Soule is a member of the founding team of Sociological Science, and serves on the editorial boards of Stanford University Press and Cambridge University Press. Her recent research has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, American Sociological Review, and the Administrative Science Quarterly.

  She has served on a number of boards of nonprofit organizations, is currently a member of the board of advisors to the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the Stanford d.school), and the international advisory board to the president of the Stockholm School of Economics.

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  Zakary Tormala

  The Laurence W. Lane Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing

  Professor Tormala is an experimental social psychologist who works in the areas of attitudes, persuasion, and social influence. He teaches MBA and PhD courses on the topics of attitude change and persuasion.

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  Zakary Tormala

  The Laurence W. Lane Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing

  Professor Tormala is an experimental social psychologist who works in the areas of attitudes, persuasion, and social influence. He teaches MBA and PhD courses on the topics of attitude change and persuasion.

  Professor Tormala received a BA in psychology from Arizona State University in 1996 and earned his PhD in social psychology from Ohio State University in 2003. From 2003-2007, Tormala served as an assistant professor of social psychology at Indiana University. In 2007, he joined the Stanford faculty as an associate professor in Stanford Graduate School of Business.

  Tormala’s research focuses primarily on the topics of attitudes, persuasion, and social influence. He specializes in conducting lab and field experiments designed to enhance our understanding of attitude, belief, and behavior change. Tormala publishes extensively on these topics and has served on the editorial boards of the leading scientific journals in his field.

  For his contribution to scholarly research, Tormala received the Society for Consumer Psychology’s Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution in 2008 and was named to the Marketing Science Institute’s list of Young Scholars in 2009. He is also an elected fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. At Stanford, Professor Tormala teaches courses on persuasion in the MBA program, the PhD program, and numerous executive education programs.

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  S. Christian Wheeler

  The StrataCom Professor of Management and Professor of Marketing, Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Education

  Professor Wheeler is a consumer behavior researcher who studies the formation, change, and expression of evaluations. He teaches courses on Management Agility and Research Methodology.

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  S. Christian Wheeler

  The StrataCom Professor of Management and Professor of Marketing, Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Education

  Professor Wheeler is a consumer behavior researcher who studies the formation, change, and expression of evaluations. He teaches courses on Management Agility and Research Methodology.

  Christian Wheeler is The StrataCom Professor of Management and Professor of Marketing at Stanford University where he teaches courses on Marketing Management and Research Methodology. He received his BA from the University of Northern Iowa before moving to Ohio State, where he completed his MA and PhD. His research has been published in top marketing, organizational behavior, and psychology journals. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Marketing Research, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.