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Each year the Strategic Management Society honors the leaders both established and emerging who have had significant impact on strategic management and business practice. This year, SMS recognized Stanford Adjunct Professor Steve Blank (above left) with the Strategy Leadership Impact Award and gave STVP PhD alum Henning Piezunka (above right) the Emerging Scholar award.  The ...read more

Brandon Farwell, a Stanford alumnus (BA ’08 in economics) and Harvard MBA, is a general partner at Xfund, the venture capital firm founded in partnership with Accel, NEA, and Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Leveraging his VC journey – and his experiences helping run the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) while ...read more

Heidi Roizen is a trailblazer in Silicon Valley venture capital and has championed a more relational, humanistic approach to professional practice – always with a keen focus on mentoring the next generation. There is no greater example of this than in her role leading the Threshold Venture Fellows (TVF) program at Stanford Technology Ventures Program. ...read more

The Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) has always worked to strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem and scale responsible innovation around the world. Roberto Bunge, Stanford PhD (Aeronautics and Astronautics) and an alum of STVP’s Accel Leadership Program, exemplifies this ethos as the founding director of the Department of Engineering at Argentina’s Universidad de San Andrés and ...read more

Stanford’s commencement and student awards season shone a spotlight on two of STVP’s remarkable graduating Mayfield Fellows, Peyton Klein and Divya Ganesan. Their work has helped define what community, resilience, and student-driven change look like at Stanford.

This spring, Stanford’s Management Science & Engineering department celebrated 25 years. Founded in 1997, STVP has been part of MS&E since the department was formed, and both have evolved alongside entrepreneurship, advancing research and education to understand and meet the ever-changing innovation ecosystem. The real-world impact of Stanford entrepreneurship is already massive.  Professor and STVP ...read more

Earlier this month, Ash Wallington joined the Stanford Technology Ventures Program as our new executive director. Most recently the director of innovation and entrepreneurship at Copenhagen Business School, Ash’s work supporting entrepreneurship in education has spanned no fewer than four continents. As she settles into life on the Farm, we asked Ash to share her ...read more

At the first Stanford Initiative for Entrepreneurs’ Resilience & Well-Being (SIER) research workshop last month, researcher Fabian Tingelhoff kicked off a trio of presentations from STVP by sharing the World Health Organization’s definition of mental health: Mental health is a state of mental well-being that enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realize ...read more

The Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center in the Stanford School of Engineering, is delighted to announce that Ashlea Wallington will be its new executive director, starting this June. With a diverse background in entrepreneurship education, innovation leadership, and global program development, Wallington brings a range of experience and a passion for fostering ...read more

Over the past several months, I’ve been a part of the Stanford Impact Labs Faculty Design Fellowship, allowing me to expand on my refugee entrepreneurship work in Uganda. Here are some of my learnings.