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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’…

By Rana Taki After being online for the past two years, Stanford’s biggest, universally known hackathon, Treehacks, has made its reappearance in Huang Basement in February 2023.🌲 For 2023, Stanford had 6 tracks: healthcare, sustainability, new frontiers, Web 3.0 and Fintech, education, and privacy and safety. …

Picture this: you’re a young child sitting in a room with a marshmallow in front of you. You’re told that you can eat the marshmallow now, or wait 15 minutes and get two marshmallows. What would you do? This was the basis for the famous Stanford Marshmallow Experiment, a study…

I want to document everything I do this year to track my progress, identify areas for improvement, and learn more about myself. I’ve been inspired by others in the past and want to pay it forward by sharing my experiences and helping others. Looking back, I missed an opportunity to…

Let's get the first-hand experience of TreeHacks 2023 at Stanford University 📚 Hey All! I recently attended Stanford’s hackathon known as TreeHacks in person & it was a whole experience in itself. So wanted to write about it & share with the world about TreeHacks. Also, I didn't find many…

The experience of others opens new paths for how I think about journalism My story is that of a woman who grew up to live her childhood dream: telling stories. When I was little, I used to watch the news with my mom and ask her what was the name…