Jonathan Levin

unless there's real crises.

So I called John back and he said, you better come back.

I think this is kind of moving rapidly.

So I just flew back to go to the meeting.

And he really tried to break that fence down.

And I think that that's been his strength.

And being a partner with the dean, and I know when he was a dean with John Levin at GSB that he was exactly that.

He was a great partner, which allowed John to do what he had to do as the dean.

This is what you accomplished.

All of the presidents of Stanford, Jonathan Levin, the Machado and Lee's, What's her name? Wen for the Washington Post.

Leona Wen.

Leona Wen, yeah.

So power is control over valuable resources, personnel, budgets, decision-making authority.

Status is the respect and admiration you have in the eyes of others, right? So let's give examples from our context, from academia, right? So John Levin, the president of Stanford University, has power and status.

He's held in high regard and he's controlling budgets and personnel and so on.

We can think about an emeritus professor, maybe a Nobel laureate who retired 20 years ago, brilliant person, will give you great advice, has a lot of respect and admiration for the people.

Bob Hall is one of the most distinguished economists of his generation, whose work has profoundly shaped our understanding of economic growth, employment, and the forces that drive the American economy, said director Condoleezza Rice.

His creative and impactful work illuminates the connections between how households and firms behave and the outcomes of the economy as a whole, said Stanford President Jonathan Levin.

During his distinguished career, Hall has been an active proponent of a flat tax and served as an advisor to President-elect Ronald Reagan, the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, and the Federal Reserve Board.

Hall's receipt of the 2026 Nobel Prize extends a distinguished tradition of economic scholarship at the Hoover Institution, including past prize winners Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Gary Becker, Douglas North, George Stiegler, Thomas Sargent and Michael Spence.

Um, it hasn't seemed like a ton has changed, but what do you think has actually changed behind the scenes since he took over? Like, are there reasons to believe this rebuild is moving in the right direction despite some of the results?

Um, yeah, I think, um, I th- that's a really good question.

Um, I think certainly, um, reasons to think it might be moving, I, I think f- probably the biggest one I can think of is just like the alignment that, like, Andrew Luck and the university president, uh, Jonathan Levine have.

I think that's like probably, like, the biggest, uh, thing I can point to, right? I think before when th- the things were kind of declining under David Shaw, like, there wasn't the same kind of alignment between him and the rest of the university leadership.

I think now there's definitely...

I mean, heck, it was the university president, Jonathan Levine's idea to have Andrew Luck run the thing.

So just, like, that kind of alignment is certainly there.

Um, I also think that behind the scenes, athletic director Jonathan Donahoe is doing more as well, um, than the previous AD was.

Announcing the twenty twenty-six prize recipients on Monday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, the Nobel Committee said the work of Doctors Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegeman, and George Nagel had laid the foundation of a new era in neuroscience.

"The work unlocked new understanding of how the brain works, new possibilities for treating neurological and psychiatric disorders," said Jonathan Levin, president of Stanford University where Deisseroth is a neuroscientist and psychiatrist.

Hegemann is based at Humboldt University in Berlin and Nagel at the University of Würzburg in Germany.

Understanding the brain is one of the most formidable challenges in science.