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Education & Training >> AeA/Stanford Executive Institute
AeA/Stanford Executive Institute
High-Tech's Most Renowned Executive Experience

August 10-21, 2008
Stanford, California




Providing senior executives in high tech with the business acumen and analytical tools to drive corporate strategy, innovation and profitability.  Join world renowned faculty, notable CEOs and technology's most valued executives for this acclaimed Stanford University and AeA program. 

Faculty II CEO Guest Speakers II Curriculum II Admission & General Info II Testimonials
2007 Institute Highlights II Alumni Network II Brochure

Varian Medical Chairman Emeritus Reflects on Institute

"The Institute will give you new tools to make better decisions and
move your organization forward. " 

- Bill Roth, Vice President, BEA Systems

 

The Opportunity of Your Career

Since 1975, the AeA/Stanford Executive Institute, in partnership with Stanford's School of Engineering, has developed the careers of over 3,500 high-tech executives. 
 

  • Learn technology relevant business strategies for long term profitability
  • Gain business knowledge from distinguished faculty with high-tech experience
  • Connect with prominent Tech CEOs and leaders from around the world
  • Explore entrepreneurial tech opportunities and new product potential
  • Identify management techniques for rapid growth, competition and innovation

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Distinguished Faculty

The Institute is tailored to create maximum relevance to the high-tech industry, providing a powerful forum for discussions among academic educators and qualified technology executives from around the world.  

Faculty and the business topics they cover, include:
 

Strategic Management
  Robert Burgelman, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business
Finance and Accounting

  Robert Higgins, University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business
  Henry Riggs, Keck Graduate Institute 

Organizations

  Pamela J. Hinds, Stanford University, Management Science and Engineering

Marketing
  Adrian Ryans, IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland
Operations


  Robert Carlson, Stanford University, Management Science and Engineering

  Warren Hausman, Stanford University, Management Science and Engineering

Negotiation
  
  Margaret Neale, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business

Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  
  Robert Sutton, Stanford University, Management Science and Engineering

  Thomas Byers, Stanford University, Management Science and Engineering

Faculty Bios
 
CEO Guest Speakers
Each year, AeA and Stanford University invite CEO guest speakers to share their perspective about the challenges and problems characteristic of managing a competitive technology company.

The 2008 guest speakers:

 

 

 

 

Scott McNealy, 52, is chairman of the board of directors of Sun Microsystems, a company he co-founded in 1982 and chairman of Sun Federal Inc. From 1984 to 2006, McNealy served as chief executive officer and chairman at Sun, steering the Company to constant innovation in open, network computing.

In his 22 years at the helm, McNealy grew Sun from a Silicon Valley start-up to a leading provider of network computing infrastructure with 37,900 employees worldwide, all while positioning the Company as a model of corporate integrity. In 1986, he took Sun public, creating one of the most notable publicly traded technology companies.

McNealy graduated from Harvard in 1976 with a BA in Economics and received an MBA from Stanford in 1980. He is an avid hockey player and a single digit handicap golfer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William P. (Bill) Sullivan is president and chief executive officer of Agilent
Technologies. Prior to his appointment in March 2005, Sullivan was the
company’s Executive vice president and chief operating officer.

Sullivan, who was senior vice president and general manager of Agilent’s 
Semiconductor Products group (SPG) before being named COO, joined
Hewlett-Packard Company in 1976 and, during the course of his career, 
developed considerable expertise in telecommunications, data 
communications and computers. In 1995, he was promoted to general 
manager of the Optical Communications Division, and two years later 
was named general manager of the Communication Semiconductor 
Solutions Division. Sullivan became general manager and vice president
of the Components Group, now SPG, in 1998. In 1999, when Agilent 
was spun off from HP, he was named to the top position with SPG.

Sullivan, who was born in 1949 in Yakima, Washington, received a 
Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Davis. 
He serves on the Board of Directors of URS Corporation in San Francisco,
and the Children’s Discovery Museum in San Jose.

 

 

John L. Hennessy is President of Stanford University.  Hennessy started at Stanford as an associate professor in Electrical Engineering in 1977 and assumed Presidency in 2000. A technologist at the core, President Hennessy pioneered a computer assembly language called MIPS in 1981 and started a company, MIPS Computer Systems, in 1984. As Stanford’s 10th president, he oversees the University from various perspectives and sits at the intersection of academics, technology, and the corporate world. He is currently on the board at Google, Cisco Systems, and Atheros Communications, and has written two foundational books on computer architecture and assembly language.

 

Alumnus Award Recipient Named
Tim Guertin
AeA and Stanford will present Tim Guertin with the 2008 AeA/Stanford Alumni of the Year Award on August 20th at the Institute banquet. Mr. Guertin attended the Institute in 1988 as Service Manager, Radiation Group, Varian Associates.

Timothy  E. Guertin, President and Chief Executive Officer of Varian Medical Systems. He joined Varian in 1976 and has served in several key management positions during his 31-year tenure with the company including president and chief operating officer as well as the general manager and president of Varian's Oncology Systems business, the company's largest business and the world's leading supplier of linear accelerators for radiation therapy for cancer, from 1990 to 2005.  He holds a BS in electrical engineering & computer sciences from the University of California at Berkeley. 

Alumni Testimonials

"The AeA/Stanford Executive Institute provided very valuable insights into general management and leadership early in my management career. These insights gave me an important foundation that I continue to utilize, even today. By focusing on the high technology industry, the Institute provided me with very relevant and immediately useful information."  

Ned Barnholt
Chairman Emeritus
Agilent Technologies
1975 Alumnus of Inaugural Institute

"We send senior leaders to the AeA/Stanford Executive Institute each year because it provides a unique multinational, multi business and cross functional environment in which the learning is enhanced and enriched by the environment itself. All Boeing's senior leaders complete an internal Boeing leadership development program which is great, but while we bring in outstanding faculty to teach it, its completely homogeneous and insular meaning everyone who attends talks only about Boeing for two weeks. The AeA/Stanford Executive Institute provides our leaders with a vital cross industry perspective on how to play and advance in competitive international technology markets."

Daniel Watt
Director of Operations
Boeing
 

"The best training program for management and leadership I have ever attended."

Rowan Trollope
Vice President
Symantec

 


"A must for high tech executives.  Tremendous interaction with world-class professors and fellow executives."

David Hall
Senior Vice President and General Manager
Endwave Corporation

 

"The single most important executive education experience I have had!"

Cal Huntzinger
Manager Marketing and Engineering
Varian Medical Systems

More Testimonials

 

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