After five years of teaching in two San Francisco independent schools, the author returned to Stanford University to pursue an MBA and a Master's in Education. While it is true that some of the topics he studied, such as the weighted average cost of capital, have little, if any, use in the independent school world, throughout his two years at Stanford, he found numerous lessons that can be applied directly to school leadership. Classes on organizational leadership and interpersonal dynamics, the latter known as "touchy feely," have been the most helpful in his roles as admission director and middle school head. In this article, the author details how the economic, statistics, and financial concepts he learned in business school apply to work in independent schools.