Biography|John Morgridge — The Stanford MBA Dated 1957 on This Campus

Wisconsin gave him the bachelor's degree.

Stanford gave him the graduate credential the later sales jobs required.

John Morgridge took a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1957.

The school's own alumni lists and the Wisconsin School of Business profile both keep that year.

NNDB and the IT History Society repeat it independently of the Wikipedia line.

The classrooms of 1957 were not these.

Stanford GSB then occupied older buildings on the main campus.

The Knight Management Center at 655 Knight Way opened in 2011, funded in large part by a gift from Philip Knight.

Pin the current school because that is where the degree still lives in the catalog.

Do not pretend the visitor will find a 1957 seminar room behind the glass.

After the MBA he served as a captain in the United States Air Force from 1957 to 1960, according to a Marquis Who's Who entry later copied onto Prabook.

Honeywell Information Systems then took the next two decades.

Stratus Computer and GRiD Systems followed in the 1980s.

The MBA is the last academic date before that chain.

He later returned here as a trustee and as a lecturer in management.

The school still prints the 1957 line on the same page as the Cisco chairmanship.

A visitor stands on Knight Way looking at a campus that postdates the diploma by half a century.

The credential is older than the buildings.

Photo: Knight Management Center, via Wikimedia Commons