MBA Alumni Spotlight: Nike Co-Founder Phil Knight – Stanford Graduate School of Business
Phil Knight, a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, didn’t become one of “the most powerful person in sports” overnight. The co-founder and chairman of Nike, Inc., the world’s most successful sports apparel manufacturing company, saw a lengthy and uncertain career filled with hurdles before amassing tantamount success. Continue reading…
Top MBA Recruiters: Nike
“Just do it.”
Simple and unimaginably iconic, it’s perhaps the world’s most popular corporate slogan, attached to the world’s most lucrative sports business company. Headquartered in the Portland, Oregon metro area, Nike’s annual revenue exceeded $32 billion in this year and the company employs more than 62,000 people worldwide. Forbes currently estimates that the brand is the 18th most valuable in the world.
Stanford Figures Out How To Improve Working Conditions in Developing World (Except China)
Stanford Business School recently published an article by Ian Chipman on an innovative solution to improve working conditions in the developing world dubbed “lean manufacturing,” which eliminates wastes, and “emphasizes efficiency and responsiveness to increase production quality,” according to Stanford research.
Andy Campion, NIKE CFO and UCLA Anderson Alum on Why Teams Win
NIKE CFO and Executive Vice President Andy Campion, one of the company’s leading visionaries, holds the title of ‘Double Bruin’. He earned his MBA at the UCLA Anderson School of Management in 2003, and a BA in Economics in 1993. He also received a JD/Master’s degree in taxation law from the University of San Diego.
The NIKE brand has been part of our cultural landscape for as long as many of us can remember. Since the company’s founding as Blue Ribbon Sports in 1971, it has evolved into one of the most powerful market forces in the world, synthesizing the cultures of sports, business and entertainment.
The Business of Giving Back: 5 Philanthropist MBAs
There has long been a tradition of philanthropy in the MBA community. Graduate degrees in business place a great deal of importance on ethics. As a result, alumni are often inspired to give back once they achieve success. The philanthropic efforts of some notable MBA graduates continue well into retirement. Here are several examples of philanthropist MBAs that stood out to us.
