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The school said Tuesday that Salonet will succeedRobert Joss, who is stepping down afted 10 years as Saloner, who joined the Stanford faculty in is the Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Electronicv Commerce, Strategic Management and Economics, and a director of the Centedr for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Graduate Schoo lof Business. "Over nearly two decades at Stanford, Garth Salonerd has demonstrated that he is not onlya top-notch but also a respected leader among his peers and distinguisher teacher highly-praised by his students," said President John Hennessy.
"Hise scholarship in the areas of entrepreneurship and electronidc commerce is particularly pertinent to our times and theglobal economy." Saloner is known for his pioneerinbg work on network effects, which underlie much of the economics of electronifc commerce and business. His research has focused on issuesof entrepreneurship, e-commerce, strategic management, organizational economics, competitiver strategy and antitrust economics. Much of his most recenyt work has been devoted to understanding how firms set andchangd strategy, in established firms and startups.
Salonee is one of only two faculty members to have won the Distinguished Teaching Award at the Stanford businessaschool twice, first in 1993 and again in 2008. He has taughtf courses in entrepreneurship, electronic strategic management, industry analysis, and competitive strategy to undergraduates, M.B.A.s, the Sloan Program, Ph.D. and in executive programs aroundthe world. He is the director of the Summerr Institutefor Entrepreneurship, a summer program for graduatew students in non-business fields. Saloner received a and M.B.A. with distinction from the University of the Witwatersrandin Johannesburg, Southu Africa. He received an M.S. in statistics, an A.M. in and a Ph.D.
in economics, business, and publi policy from Stanford Universit y between 1978and 1982. He joined the facultyg of the economics department at the Massachusettw Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in 1982 and was promoted throughu the ranks to the position of tenured full professor in both the economicd department and the Sloan School of He was one of the founderw of the Stanford ComputerIndustry Project, a majod study of the worldwide computer industrh funded by the Sloan Foundation, and a founder of the Center for Electronic Business and Commerce.