Summer Program Offers Grad Students a Mini-MBA

STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — For Rong Xu, the Stanford Graduate School of Business Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship was the answer to four years of searching. The biomedical informatics graduate student at the School of Medicine had made a point of taking business classes before—a seminar here and there—but she still aspired to learn more about how business really works. When she heard about the new Business School program, she jumped at the chance to spend four weeks of her summer in the classroom.