The Stanford Graduate School of Business Veterans Club invites you to the
2025 Military service appreciation dinner
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
6:15 pm - 10:00 pm
Vidalakis Dining Hall
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Stanford, CA
Dear GSB Alum,
The GSB Veterans Club is pleased to announce that the Jack McDonald Military Service Community Dinner will once again take place in person on May 7, 2025. We invite you to save the date and plan to join us for dinner at Vidalakis Dining Hall as we honor and celebrate the experiences and sacrifices of our veterans and active-duty communities. We are also pleased to announce that we will award the Jack McDonald Military Service Appreciation Award to Professor John K. Hurley during the dinner. Our guest speaker will be H.R. McMaster. The event registration will follow.
H.r. McMaster
H. R. McMaster was the 26th assistant to the president for National Security Affairs. He served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army for thirty-four years before retiring as a Lieutenant General in June 2018.
From 2014 to 2017 McMaster designed the future army as the director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center and the deputy commanding general of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). As commanding general of the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, he oversaw training and education for the Army’s infantry, armor, and cavalry force. His led soldiers and organizations in wartime including command of a multi-national task force in Kabul, Afghanistan; the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Iraq; and Eagle Troop, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Operation Desert Storm. McMaster also served overseas as advisor to the most senior commanders in the Middle East, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
McMaster was an assistant professor of history at the United States Military Academy from 1994 to 1996 where he taught undergraduate courses in military history and history of the Korean and Vietnam Wars. He also taught a graduate course on the history of military leadership for officers enrolled in the Columbia University MBA program.
He is author of the award-winning book, Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam and Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World. He has published scores of essays, articles, and book reviews on leadership, history, and the future of warfare in many publications including Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He was a contributing editor for Survival: Global Politics and Strategy from 2010 to 2017.
John k. hurley
John Hurley is the Managing Partner of Cavalry Asset Management and Managing Member of TGK Ventures. Based in San Francisco, Cavalry invests primarily in publicly traded technology companies and TGK invests primarily in privately held companies and real estate.
Mr. Hurley serves on the Board of Governors of the Middle East Institute, the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution, the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute, the Board of Directors of America’s Frontier Fund and on the East West Council of Advisors on Track Two Diplomacy. He is a Lecturer in Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and chairs the Princeton University History Department Advisory Board.
Mr. Hurley graduated with honors from Princeton in 1986, where he was Chairman of the Daily Princetonian. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and served for five years in the US Army. During the First Gulf War, as a battalion fire direction officer for the First Cavalry Division, he was awarded the Bronze Star.
After receiving his MBA from the GSB in 1993, he was an analyst and portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments and Managing Partner of Bowman Capital Management before founding Cavalry in 2003.
He and his late wife Kamilla GSB ’92 have three sons.