Stanford Business School

Can you tell me about the ranking of Stanford Graduate School of Business? Also list me then names of Notable Alumni of Stanford Graduate School of Business?

[Shaleen]

Stanford's MBA program was ranked 1st in the United States by U.S. News & World Report in its 2015 rankings, and by Forbes in its 2013 rankings.

It was ranked 4th in the Financial Times 2015 Global MBA rankings,[20] and 7th by Bloomberg Businessweek in 2015.

The Economist ranked Stanford 13th in its 2015 business school ranking and CNN Expansion ranked it 2nd in the world in 2014.

In the 2014 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report, Stanford Business School was tied for 1st in North America.

In Poets&Quants 2015 aggregated "ranking of rankings" of US business schools, Stanford's MBA program ranked #2.

For 2011, the Aspen Institute, which ranks institutions on how well schools incorporate issues concerning social and environmental stewardship into the curriculum, ranked Stanford #1 worldwide.

Notable GSB Alumni
Stephen Adams, Chairman and Founder, The Adams Companies, AGI, Affinity Bank
Javed Ahmed, CEO, Tate & Lyle
Herbert M. Allison, Chairman, President & CEO, TIAA-CREF
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director Reliance Industries Limited(incomplete)
Steve Ballmer, Former CEO, Microsoft (incomplete)
Mary Barra, CEO, General Motors
Robert Bass, Chairman, Aerion
Sid Bass, Investor and billionaire
Riley Bechtel, Chairman & CEO, Bechtel Group
Stephen Bechtel, Jr., Chairman Emeritus and Director of Bechtel Group
Jeffrey Bewkes, President & COO, Time Warner
Sterling Brinkley, Chairman of EZCORP, former Managing Director at Lehman Brothers
Carlos Brito, CEO, Anheuser–Busch InBev
Bill Browder, CEO, Hermitage Capital Management
John Browne, Chairman & CEO, BP (formerly "British Petroleum"), Member of the House of Lords, knighted by the Queen
Paul Bucha, CEO, Terra Mark LLC, Medal of Honor Recipient
Antonio Buehler, civil liberties activist battling police corruption, Founder of Peaceful Streets Project
Nolan Bushnell, Founder, Atari, Chuck E. Cheese's
Brook Byers, Venture Capitalist, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Sloane Citron, magazine publisher
Bud Colligan, CEO, Authorware (1989–1992); CEO, Macromedia (1992–1997); Partner, Accel Partners (1998–present)
James C. Collins, Best-selling author in leadership and management
Bret Comolli, Chairman, Asurion Corporation
Chip Conley, Founder & CEO, Joie de Vivre
Joseph "Joe" Coulombe, Founder, Trader Joe's
James Coulter, Founding Partner, Texas Pacific Group
Sir Howard Davies, Director of the London School of Economics, former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England
Steven A. Denning, Chairman, General Atlantic LLC
John Donahoe, President and CEO, eBay
Andy Dunn, Founder & CEO, Bonobos (apparel)
Richard Fairbank, Co-Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Capital One
Philip Arthur Fisher, "Growth Investing" Pioneer and Author
Robert Fisher, Chairman, Gap, Inc.
Pete Flint, Co-Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Trulia
Marcos Galperin, CEO & Founder, MercadoLibre.com
Kfir Gavrieli, CEO & Founder, Tieks
Dana Gioia, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
Seth Godin, Popular Business Author and Theorist, founder of Yoyodyne which was acquired by Yahoo!
Robert E. Grady, Chairman, National Venture Capital Association
Wyc Grousbeck, CEO, governor, and co-owner, Boston Celtics
Arjun Gupta, Founder and Chief Believer, TeleSoft Partners
Ole Andreas Halvorsen, CEO and a Co-founder, Viking Global Investors
Richard Handler, Chairman, CEO & President, Jefferies & Co.
Trip Hawkins, Entrepreneur, Founder, Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company
Tom Hayhoe, director of UK healthcare organisations, former chairman ofGamestation, offshore racing sailor
Jessica Jackley, Co-Founder, Kiva
Kenneth M. Jacobs, CEO & Chairman, Lazard
Jeff Jordan (venture capitalist), President and CEO, OpenTable and PresidentPayPal
Jim Jorgensen, Serial Entrepreneur
Lynn Jurich, Co-Founder, Sunrun
John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (dropped out)
Vinod Khosla, Billionaire, Co-Founder, Sun Microsystems, and Founder, Khosla Ventures. Venture Capitalist, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
Phil Knight, Billionaire. President, CEO and Founder, Nike, Inc.
Jim Kolbe, U.S. Congressman (R-AZ)
Omid Kordestani, Billionaire. SVP of Global Sales and Business Development,Google, Inc.
David C. Korten, Co-founder and Board Chair, Positive Futures Network
Richard Kovacevich, Former Chairman and CEO, Wells Fargo
Gary Kremen, Founder Match.com and Sex.com and well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur
Howard Leach, U.S. Ambassador to France
Lee Hsien Yang, former CEO of Singapore Telecommunications
Lim Swee Say, Minister of Prime Minister's Office, Secretary-General of National Trades Union Congress, Singapore
Edmund Wattis Littlefield, Billionaire, CEO of Utah Construction Company
Steve Luczo, CEO of Seagate Technology
Sir Deryck Maughan, former Chairman and CEO of Salomon Brothers
John McCoy, Former Chairman and CEO, Banc One
Henry A. McKinnell, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc.
Scott McNealy, Co-founder, Chairman, & former CEO, Sun Microsystems
Alex Michel, American businessman, producer, and television personality, best known for the role in The Bachelor
Steve Miller, Executive Chairman, Delphi Corporation, Former Chairman, Federal-Mogul, Former CEO, Waste Management
Hamid R. Moghadam, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Prologis
John P. Morgridge, Chairman, Cisco Systems, Chairman, The Nature Conservancy
Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO, Minted, Co-founder, Eve.com
Jacqueline Novogratz, Founder and CEO, Acumen (organization)
Tom Peters, Best-selling author and management guru
Donald Petersen, Former Chairman & CEO, Ford Motor Company
Nandini Piramal, Executive Director, Piramal Enterprises Ltd
David Pitt-Watson, Scottish businessman, social entrepreneur, politician and author
Ken Powell, CEO of General Mills
Laurene Powell Jobs, Founder/Chair, Emerson Collective, Widow of Steve Jobs
Penny Pritzker, Billionaire, & National Finance Chair – Obama for America. Heir,Hyatt Hotel
Frank Quattrone, Founder and CEO, Qatalyst Partners
Michele Raffin, writer, aviculturist and founder of Pandemonium Aviaries
Roy L. Raymond, Serial Entrepreneur, Founder, Victoria's Secret, Xandria, others
Richard Rainwater, Investor and billionaire
Ali Rowghani, Chief Operating Officer, Twitter
Charles R. Schwab, Billionaire, Chairman & CEO, Charles Schwab Corporation
Mayo A. Shattuck III CEO of Constellation Energy
Ellen Siminoff, CEO, Shmoop, former Chairman, Efficient Frontier, founding executive of Yahoo!
David Siminoff, Investor and Entrepreneur, former CEO, JDate, founder, Shmoop
Jeffrey Skoll, Billionaire, Former President, eBay, and CEO, Participant Productions
Steven L. Smith, Astronaut
Tom Steyer, investor, Founder, Farallon Capital Management
Gene T. Sykes, Global Co-Head of M&A & Chairman, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
David Sze, Venture Capitalist and Managing Partner, Greylock Partners
Paul Thelen, CEO and Founder, Big Fish Games
Alan Tripp, Founder, SCORE! Educational Centers and InsideTrack
Kevin Tsujihara, CEO, Warner Bros. Entertainment
Greg Waldorf, Founding Investor & Former CEO, eHarmony
Tristan Walker, Founder & CEO, Walker & Company Brands, Inc
Steve Westly, Former CEO, eBay, California State Controller
Miles D. White, Chairman & CEO, Abbott Laboratories
Sam Yagan, co-founder of OkCupid, CEO, Match.com
Hidehiko Yuzaki, Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture
Lorenzo Zambrano, Billionaire, Chairman & CEO, Cemex