Thomas Layton
Lecturer in Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business
Biography
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Teaching Statement
Thomas Layton co-teaches Innovation and Non-founder CEO’s with Andy Rachleff. Thomas’s goal in teaching is to expose students to real-world issues and challenges they will face as senior leaders in rapidly growing companies.
Bio
Thomas has a long history of successful business leadership, having served as CEO at both OpenTable and Metaweb (acquired by Google in 2010), and having co-founded CitySearch. He is currently a board member for Upwork, ezhome, and Doxo. Additionally, he founded the non-profit organization, MapLight.org.
Thomas is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and he holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a BS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Academic Degrees
- MBA, Stanford GSB, 1994
- BS, UNC Chapel Hill, 1986
Teaching
Degree Courses
2017-18
STRAMGT 504: Innovation and Non-founder CEOs
This course examines how companies innovate after the success of their first product, and why non-founder led companies are often less successful at this than founder led companies. We focus on how non-founder CEOs can drive more innovation while...
2016-17
STRAMGT 504: Innovation and Non-founder CEOs
This course examines how companies innovate after the success of their first product, and why non-founder led companies are often less successful at this than founder led companies. We focus on how non-founder CEOs can drive more innovation while...
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Cases
UltraCase | E584 Thomas Layton, Sara Rosenthal2016
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