This page is a table of contents for all the blog posts on Sten’s life as a Sloan Fellow as part of Stanford Sloan program (now called MSx) at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Before school started:
- Why and How I Became a Stanford Student (Feb 28, 2012)
- Sloan 2013 Orientation Notes (April 22, 2012)
- Getting Settled at Stanford (July 17, 2012)
Summer Quarter:
- Summer Quarter Schedule & Books (Aug 10, 2012)
- Sloan Study Notes, Week 1 (July 23, 2012)
- Week 2: Explorers/Exploiters, Public Governance and Normals (July 27, 2012)
- Week 3: Strong Cultures and Hello Regressions (Aug 3, 2012)
- Week 4: Monopolies, Multiple Regressions & Negotiations Kickoff (Aug 12, 2012)
- Week 5: Supply & Demand, Patent Wars & Negotiations (Aug 19, 2012)
- Week 6: Torts, the Samurai and Dance of Joy (Aug 27, 2012)
- Week 7: Drugs, Perfect Competition and Rock’n’Roll (Aug 31, 2012)
- Week 8: Eating Dogs, Price Meddling and Whitegoods (Sept 7, 2012)
- Week 9: Kant, Golden Balls, Nash and Jack Bauer (Sept 17, 2012)
- Summary of Smooth Sloan Summer (Sept 21, 2012)
Autumn Quarter:
- Autumn Quarter Courses (Sept 24, 2012)
- Week 11: Instant Gratification, In and Out of Orgs and Biases (Oct 1, 2012)
- Week 12: Discounting the Future, SEC Investigations and Visiting Founders (Oct 6, 2012)
- Week 13: Gangnam Style, Fired CEOs and Motivating People (Oct 13, 2012)
- Week 14: Confucius, Shrek, Devil’s Advocates and the Board (Oct 22, 2012)
- Weeks 15-16: Conglomerates, Lemmings, Founders’ Dilemmas and Tax Lotteries (Nov 4, 2012)
- Week 17: Economists Designing Orgs, Ethos of Problem-Making and Sick Bush in Japan (Nov 12, 2012)
- Weeks 18-20: Innovation Economy, Debate Blunders and Creative Computing (Dec 9, 2012)
- An Auspicious Autumn quArter (Dec 16, 2012)
Winter Quarter:
- Winter Quarter Courses (Jan 4, 2013)
- Week 21: Finance, Ventures, Stories and Space (Jan 11, 2013)
- Week 22: IRR, Fishbones, Term Sheets & Angels (Jan 18, 2013)
- Week 23: Sourcing, Screening, Valuing and Pitching (Jan 26, 2013)
- Week 24: Medical Devices, Space Tourism and Russian E-Commerce (Feb 1st, 2013)
- Week 25: Midterms, Cost of Capital and Founders in Rounds (Feb 11, 2013)
- Week 26: Debt, Seed Money, Private Equity and Firing Founders (Feb 17, 2013)
- Week 27: Tech IPOs, Seed Investing, Bankruptcies & International Trade (Feb 24, 2013)
- Extracurricular Fireworks: Friendster, Prezi, Rovio, Bonobos + O’Reilly & Doerr (Mar 7, 2013)
- Weeks 28-29: Bootstrapping, Europe(?!), Options & Private Equity Operators (Mar 11, 2013)
- Week 30: Exits, Second Markets, M&A & Thunderlizards (Mar 15, 2013)
- East Coast Study Trip (Apr 13, 2013)
- Whizzing Winter Quarter (Apr 21, 2013)
Spring Quarter:
- Spring Quarter Courses (Apr 5, 2013)
- Week 31: Analyzing Social Networks, Marketing Mix and Restaurant Operations (Apr 8, 2013)
- Week 32: Brokering, Predictable Variability & Paying for Sales Performance (Apr 16, 2013)
- Week 33: Network Centrality, Bass Diffusion, SaaS Sales & Data Science (Apr 21, 2013)
- Week 34: Al Gore, Startups Sales to Enterprises & Founders vs Early Employees (Apr 28, 2013)
- Week 35: Virality, Freemium, Bitcoin & Asteroids (May 5, 2013)
- Week 36: Cascading Uncertainty, Sales Ethics, Biotech & Design (May 10, 2013)
- Week 37: Small World, Churn, Measuring Sales & Startup HR (May 17, 2013)
- Week 38: Condi, Internet Ads, Global Warming & Microbreweries (May 26, 2013)
- Week 39: R, Regression Discontinuity, Bakeries and Sales VPs (June 2, 2013)
- Week 40: The End of Class Notes (June 6, 2013)
- Last Sloan Class’ Spring Quarter (June 7, 2013)
Other:
- My LOWKeynotes speech: The Future That Should Be Here Now (May 4, 2013)
- Toolkit for Quick’n’Dirty Country/Culture Research (Oct 20, 2012)
- The Stanford Bubbles (Nov 13, 2012)
- As We Speak: Reading Notes (Dec 5, 2012)
- Founders’ Dilemmas, Quantified (Dec 31, 2012)
- Toolkit for Evaluating a New Venture (Jan 7, 2013)
- GSB Book Recommendations to John Doerr (Mar 15, 2013)
- Notes from some off-campus conferences (student discounts! :)):
- Intersection Event 2013 (Jan 20, 2013)
- Xconomy Robotics Forum (Apr 12, 2013)
External links:
My bookshelves on Goodreads:
- Official required readings from all the courses I’ve taken at Stanford.
- Incomplete list of various other books for optional reading, referenced in Stanford courses and by guests.
For more Sloan writing, feel free to turn to my classmates’ blogs:
- Herbert: the Good, the Bad, the Curious
- Sumit: OptiMystique