Stanford GSB
What Stanford GSB Amounts To
Where the model began, and the study.
At a Glance
- Courses
- 2 named courses, below.
- Club
- A Search Fund Club, for students exploring the path and students already committed to it.
- Money
- A stipend of up to $550 a week through the Entrepreneurial Summer Internship Program, on top of the $1,000 a week the school recommends the host company pay, for an eight to ten week internship at a company acquired within the last two years. Awarded on a rolling basis until the year's funds run out.
- Conference
- The Search Fund CEO Conference, held on campus each year for searchers who have already bought a company rather than for students exploring the path.
Its Conference, Dated
Stanford Search Fund CEO Conference No dates published, in Stanford, California, with the way in and the price the host publishes.
The Classes
- Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (STRAMGT 543)
- Search Fund Garage (a project-based workshop) (STRAMGT 549)
Who teaches and leads it
- H. Irving Grousbeck, who described the search fund in 1984
- Charles A. Holloway, who co-founded the center with him in 1996
What Else It Runs
- The Entrepreneurial Summer Program, which places students inside a recently acquired search-fund company.
- The search fund study itself, which the center has published since 1996 over the funds raised since 1984; the 2026 edition carries data through the end of 2025.
Open to readers outside the school
- The Search Fund Primer, the field's standard introduction, free to read.
- The Search Fund Study, published biennially since 1996 and the source of the returns figures most of this field quotes.
- A companion study following the funds raised outside the United States and Canada, which the main study leaves out.
Where to Look
Other Schools
The Intern & Job Board carries the programs that pay a salary to search, and Investors the firms that fund one. What a student group runs on is in the materials for ETA clubs.