Stanford Graduate School of Business2026 Ernest C. Arbuckle Award Dinner Honoring Hamid R. Moghadam, MBA '80 Highlights
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Arbuckle Award Goes To Moghadam 0:05
The Ernest C. Arbuckle Award is the highest honor Stanford Graduate School of Business gives, presented to a leader who has shown lasting commitment to society's changing needs. Hamid Moghadam, who earned his MBA from Stanford GSB in 1980, becomes the fifty-sixth recipient. Three years after graduating he co-founded AMB Property Corporation, which he led through its 1997 IPO and its 2011 merger with Prologis, building it into the global leader in logistics real estate and a top 100 S&P 500 company. He transitioned from CEO to executive chairman this past January. His honors include the 2006 Ellis Island Medal of Honor and being named the 17th best performing CEO in the world by Harvard Business Review in 2013. With his wife Christina, he established the Moghadam Family Professorship and funds the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies at Stanford.
Colleague Describes His Leadership 3:02
Jahan Moslehi noted that three percent of the world's GDP flows through Moghadam's buildings. He described Moghadam as unusually accessible for someone at his level, someone who takes phone calls, answers emails, and talks to the most junior person in the room. In 2021, Moghadam told him his top job as CEO was to build relationships with the thirty tenants that matter and solve their pain points, advice Moslehi later recognized as the core Prologis philosophy of obsessing over customers rather than capital.
Moghadam Reflects On His Path 6:03
Moghadam said he never set out to build a global company, only to learn, do good work, and take advantage of opportunities as they came. He credited much of his outcome to circumstances, timing, and access, saying Stanford creates opportunity and changes trajectories. His advice was to stay open to change, take on things before feeling ready, and pay close attention to the people around you.
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