… Awareness of the environmental and societal challenges facing our world has expanded dramatically in … immediate action. The U.S. signed—and then left, before rejoining—the Paris Agreement. In thissurvey of 2,035 global businessstudents, conducted in partnership withthe Global …
… Companies are in a constantstate of disruption and evolution asthey attemptto stay ahead of government regulations, competitors, and new market entrants. In this rapidly evolving world, they face numerous obstacles when it comesto maintaining and … model and promotesthe elimination of waste through the continual use of natural resources. This holistic framework allows companiesto evaluate the environmental impact of …
… Through this research opportunity, strong theoretical contributions have been made … the driving forces of a sustainability characterised by individual and planetary flourishing in contrastto a sustainability characterised by survival. The investigators’ … span cognitive boundaries. The investigators have completed the qualitative data collection withPatagonia and are scheduled to conduct interviewswithoursecond study participant, …
… When it comesto climate change, the science is unequivocal: global temperatures will continue to rise for decades, largely due to greenhouse gases produced by human activities. This will have catastrophic effects on human health, infrastructure, energy, agriculture, … environmental sustainability — exacerbatesthis confusion. To cutthrough the noise, ourteam from the Yale School of Management narrowed in on one, universal metric that isthe …
… Low productivity in agriculture is a significant development challenge, yet many processes used to … of technologies hasstressed the importance of social networks in technology adoption.This project is designed to provide experimental evidence on how bestto leverage social … methods of information diffusion. In the first phase, a baseline survey was conducted with 3800 farming households. The survey focused on the socioeconomic characteristics of the …
… This global study of more than 3,700 students at 29 top businessschools, conducted by Yale University in collaboration withthe World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Global Network for …
… This project exploresthe mechanismsthat allow actors in differentsettingsto coordinate … of casesto explore in full depth. A second stage entailsthe selection of two to four well-matched cases (for information on matched comparisonssee George and Bennett, 2004) … grant provided the researchers leverage to raise an additional $5,000 from a group of Yale donors interested in Social Enterprise and renewable energy. Photo from Tobias von der …
… The objective of this project wasto use both the travel cost method and the contingent valuation method to … private forestland is $24.84 per year. Average premium for local forest products is 11.5%, with amounts varying across furniture, lumber, honey, maple syrup and Christmastrees. … create economic incentives for private forest owners by drawing upon previously untapped sources of publicly derived funding. Project Outcomes Based on these findings, the …
… This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the feasibility of designing and financing a Green Resilience Hub (GRH). GRHs are physical facilities equipped with clean energy technologies and strategically located to offer vital servicesto local … and takeaways from the energy and financial model we developed using Microsoft Excel. Our energy and financial model, published withthis report, is built using the Connecticut …
… The objective of this project isto investigate waysthat consumers make inferences about green product … heuristic, whereby they assume that companies have a fixed amount of manufacturing resources. Thus, resources devoted to “making the product green” come atthe expense of making … in his core Master of Business Administration class, among colleagues, and in conjunction with a case on green products. Future Activities Additional data will be collected for the …