Rate My Professor Russell Siegel

At Stanford GSB, Siegelman teaches courses including Startup Garage, Product Launch, and Starting and Growing a Social Venture, the latter of which he co-developed. He is a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and the Center for Social Innovation, mentoring many GSB entrepreneurs. Beyond academia, he chairs the board of the Global Innovation Fund, a $200 million impact investment fund supporting social entrepreneurs addressing global development challenges. Previous roles include board memberships at Innovations for Poverty Action (2010–2014), advisory board for Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT and USAID's Global Development Lab, Positive Coaching Alliance, Nueva School, Lucille Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, and as Chairman of Sustainable Conservation (2000–2014). In 2012–2013, he received the MBA Class of '73 Lecturer award. Siegelman has co-authored numerous case studies, such as Adalat AI: Justice at Scale (2026), Fram Energy and Launching Virta Health (2024), Atticus: The Search for the Ideal Investor and SIRUM: Scaling a “Tech-for-Good” Medication Donation Platform (2023), Byteboard: Reinventing the Technical Interview (2021), Esusu: The Missing Link in Credit Reports (2021), and others including Blue River Technology (2013) and Young 1ove: Scaling in Botswana (2016). His contributions have shaped entrepreneurship education and impact investing practices.