Co-taught the Grove class, then joined Blyth's board
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Economist, then new to Stanford GSB, who co-taught the spring 1991 technology strategy course with Andy Grove. Later Dean of the Graduate School of Business, succeeding Michael Spence. He resigned the deanship in 2015 amid litigation involving faculty members.
A mentor to Jonathan Hare, and one of the few in this record who crossed from the classroom into the work: he joined Blyth Software as an adviser or board member after what Hare calls the Immaculate Revolution, in the autumn of 1992.
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This record previously named Robert Burgelman as Grove's co-teacher for the course Hare took. That is wrong for that semester. Burgelman taught the core strategy course in autumn 1990 — one of Hare's favorites — and was away in spring 1991. Saloner co-taught the Grove course, and he was new to the school at the time.
The dating is now settled: there were no electives in the autumn, so the course was spring 1991. That fixes the date Hare met David Marquardt, and therefore the whole chain that follows.
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The class Hare got stuck in, which changed everything
Open →taught the core course the term beforeCo-taught the course, and Hare loved him
Open →professor, later Dean1990–92 — the faculty, the classmates, and the prize he gave up
Open →adviser or board memberOmnis — the only client-server tool that worked across everything
Open →succeeded as DeanVice Chairman of Consilient, and the introduction into Cisco
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