Graduate Students

Eligibility Role: Graduate Students

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Valley Meets Mission: Purposeful Entrepreneurial Ventures with Government (INTLPOL 300W, SIW 158)

Many of today's societal problems - cybersecurity, climate change, Covid-19, food insecurity - require effective collaboration between government and entrepreneurial ventures to combine scale, technology, and innovation. In each class, students will engage in candid, interactive discussions with entrepreneurial, government, tech, and investment leaders to examine drivers/obstacles behind government mission-oriented innovation and the need, role, and manner for the entrepreneurial ecosystem to support it...
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Light Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, Masters Students, Stanford Students
  • Objective(s): Enrich
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Spring
  • Other

Startup Law: Sustainability

Stanford law students, working under the supervision of the Stanford attorney teaching team, provide pro bono legal assistance and support to non-profit and for-profit startups focused on climate, sustainability, and impact.
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Faculty, Stanford Staff, Stanford Student, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Accelerate, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Other
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Winter
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Leading Organizational Change for Sustainability (SUSTAIN 120)

The Living Lab Fellowship in campus sustainability brings together a talented group of advanced undergraduates to doctoral-level students to make meaningful progress toward achieving Stanford University's operational sustainability goals. Leading Organizational Change is a two-unit, one-quarter elective course offered Autumn quarter. The course constitutes the academic component of the Living Lab Fellowship Program. This course is only open to students who have applied and been accepted to the Living Lab Fellowship Program
  • Entrepreneurship: Light Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall
  • Fellowships/Internships/Grants

Living Lab Fellowship Program for Sustainability

The Living Laboratory Fellowship Program for Sustainability provides Stanford students real-world sustainability leadership and project management opportunities that meaningfully advance Stanford’s operational sustainability goals. Offered in partnership with the LBRE Office of Sustainability, the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, and the Bill Lane Center for the American West, the program collaborates widely with schools, departments, and operational units across Stanford, including the O'Donohue Family Educational Farm, Residential & Dining Enterprises, and Business Affairs.
  • Entrepreneurship: Light Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • Resource Type: Fellowships/Internships/Grants
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
  • Other

Emergence Accelerator Program

The Emergence Accelerator Program supports a cohort of highly driven social and environmental student entrepreneurs and ventures each year from across campus. Through key impact entrepreneurship workshops, coaching from successful founders, one-on-one mentorship from industry professionals, and facilitated networking and connections to prospective funders, students are supported to ideate, develop, and launch purpose driven ventures that address our most pressing health challenges.
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Partial Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Other
  • Quarter(s) Available: Spring, Winter
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Integrative Design, Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital for Sustainability (SUST 234)

This course aims to empower students with knowledge, orientations, and skills to evaluate pressing sustainability challenges and design entrepreneurial solutions that advance sustainability and deliver lasting positive change. Through case studies, frameworks, and hands-on projects, students learn about the entrepreneurial ecosystem of start-ups and venture capital, nonprofits and philanthropy, and other business models that can achieve co-benefits and sustainable outcomes....
  • Entrepreneurship: Primary Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich, Evaluate
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring
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Sustainability Leadership Practicum (SUST 240)

The Sustainability Leadership Practicum provides an opportunity for students in the SUST master's program to practice, integrate and internalize core lessons from the program curriculum. Students will independently complete a 120-hour Practicum project of their own design, collaborating on a complex sustainability challenge with an outside partner and working through the types of constraints often faced by decision makers and leaders...
  • Entrepreneurship: Partial Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, Masters Students
  • Objective(s): Enrich
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter
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Policy Practicum: Hot Money: Toward Effective Climate Finance and Policy in Southeast Asia (LAW 808Z)

The fight to curb climate change will be won or lost in emerging markets and developing economies -- particularly those in Southeast Asia -- in which surging energy consumption and infrastructure investment today will lock in carbon-emission patterns for decades...
  • Entrepreneurship: Light Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Graduate Students, Masters Students, PhD Students
  • Objective(s): Enrich
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Spring, Winter
  • Courses

Policy Practicum: Structuring Effective Carbon Markets (LAW 809B)

This policy lab project builds on Stanford Steyer-Taylor Center (STC) and Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFI) research and analysis on structuring effective carbon markets. It leverages related work and resources on campus, and engages with clients in the US government working to design effective US and International carbon markets...
  • Entrepreneurship: Light Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • Resource Type: Courses
  • Quarter(s) Available: Spring
  • Other

The Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance

The Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance explores and develops economically sensible policy and finance solutions that advance cleaner, more secure energy. Scroll down to see our featured research, current projects, publications, and more.
  • Entrepreneurship: Light Entrepreneurship Focus
  • Sustainability: Primary Sustainability Focus
  • Eligibility: Co-term, Graduate Students, GSB MBA1 Students, GSB MBA2 Students, GSB MSx Students, GSB Students, Masters Students, PhD Students, Postdocs, Stanford Affiliates, Stanford Alumni, Stanford Faculty, Stanford Staff, Stanford Student, Stanford Students, Undergraduate Students
  • Objective(s): Discover, Enrich
  • Resource Type: Other
  • Quarter(s) Available: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter

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