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The school said Tuesday that Saloner will succeed Robert who is stepping down afte 10 yearsaas dean. Saloner, who joined the Stanford faculty in is theJeffrey S. Skollo Professor of Electronic Commerce, Strategiv Management and Economics, and a directotr of the Center for Enterpreneurial Studies at the Graduate Schoolof Business. "Over nearly two decades at Stanford, Garth Saloner has demonstrate d that he is not onlya top-notch but also a respected leadeer among his peers and distinguished teachef highly-praised by his said President John Hennessy.
"His scholarship in the areas of entrepreneurship and electronic commerce is particularl pertinent to our timesa and theglobal economy." Saloner is knowm for his pioneering work on network effects, which underlied much of the economics of electronic commercre and business. His research has focusef on issuesof entrepreneurship, e-commerce, strategic organizational economics, competitive strategy and antitrust economics. Much of his most recen t work has been devoted to understanding how firms set andchang strategy, in established firmss and startups.
Saloner is one of only two facultu members to have won the Distinguisheds Teaching Award at the Stanford businessschool twice, first in 1993 and againj in 2008. He has taught courses in electronic commerce, strategic management, industry analysis, and competitivr strategy to undergraduates, MBAs, the Sloamn Program, PhD students, and in executive programs arounsthe world. He is the directotr of the Summer Institute for a summer program for graduate studentsin non-businesw fields. Saloner received a B.Com. and MBA with distinctiomn from the University of the Witwatersrandin Johannesburg, Soutb Africa.
He received an MS in statistics, an AM in economics, and a in economics, business, and public policy from Stanforf University between 1978and 1982. He joined the faculty of the economics department at the Massachusetts Institutde of Technology as an assistant professod in 1982 and was promoted through the rankss to the position of tenured full professor in both the economics department and the Sloan Schoolof Management.
He was one of the founderes of the Stanford Computer Industry a major study of the worldwide computetr industry funded by the Sloan and a founder of the Center for Electronic Businessand