Peek inside how the GSB Impact Fund ‘hires’ a team of 65+ members and thinks of DEI metrics — At the GSB Impact Fund, we have 5 weeks to recruit 65 people — yes, 5 weeks, 65 people. At first, this responsibility felt daunting. Most of our classmates have only hired a few people at a time or inherited teams through organizational changes. The Fund’s rapid and large-scale ‘hiring’…

Stanford GSB Impact Fund: Our 2022 Energy & Environment Thesis — The Paris Agreement aims to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. We are already at 1.1 degrees of warming and need to decarbonize at a rate of nearly 13% per year in order to meet the 1.5 degrees target by 2050.¹ How can we reach our…

Stanford GSB Impact Fund: Our 2022 Justice Thesis — There are various definitions and interpretations of the concept of justice. The definition that resonates the most with our team is ‘the quality of being fair, impartial, and equitable.’ Our communities, our country, and our global society all have a long way to go in achieving justice. …

Stanford GSB Impact Fund: Our 2022 Education Thesis — At our first meeting, the GSB Impact Fund Education Team members reflected on a teacher or mentor who had shaped our career paths. …

Stanford GSB Impact Fund: Our 2022 Urban Development Thesis — The world is moving to cities. Indeed, by 2050, more than two-thirds of all people will call a city home. The rise of cities has been driven by their promise as centers of convenience, connection, innovation, and prosperity. Realizing these promises will be essential to human thriving as more and…

Stanford GSB Impact Fund: Our 2022 Healthcare Thesis — The COVID-19 pandemic massively disrupted the healthcare system and quickly exposed its frailties, inequalities, and vulnerabilities. On average, countries reported disruptions to more than one-third of essential healthcare services.¹ Years of progress on the fight against TB and HIV was erased — the number of people treated for drug-resistant TB…

Stanford GSB Impact Fund: Our 2022 Food & Agriculture Thesis — Eating may be an ordinary activity for many of us, but the food system behind it is ripe with unique problems. On the human side, one in every nine people are undernourished, while two in five adults are overweight.¹ With the prevalence of cheap, over-processed foods, it is now possible…

Stanford GSB Impact Fund: Our 2022 Fintech Thesis — Societies across the globe use financial wellbeing to define their communities that are most in need. Decision makers set median income thresholds to determine who qualifies for government programs, and they make direct cash transfers to citizens that trade off against other interventions in education, job training, environmental clean up…

The Stanford GSB Impact Fund is excited to announce that we have invested in Honest Jobs, joining a strong syndicate of investors including lead investor Matchstick Ventures. Honest Jobs is a leading national job marketplace for people affected by the criminal justice system. Over 77.7 million individuals possess a criminal…