… the business. AXA’s business had grown rapidly over the previous decades. The company was formed in the 1980s through the merger of a few mid-sized French insurance firms. From the … to Interbrand, AXA’s was the leading global brand name in insurance, and also the leading "green" insurance brand. Throughout its growth, AXA’s leadership had maintained an interest … to encourage and support community engagement by employees, and in 2001 it established the Group’s first "sustainable development" function. But it wasn’t until 2008 that the company …
… from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Project Sammaan brought together a stellar group of designers, architects, and social science researchers to tackle one of the … slums by February 2013. Furthermore, the project team hoped to develop research from the effort to create a model that could be used by other communities, completing the research in 2014. However by the late fall of 2013, not a single community toilet had its plans approved, much less built. Various …
… In 2008, this was the investment strategy of Adam Blumenthal, founding partner of Blue Wolf Capital Management in New York. “What we’re looking for is something that has a solid business at its core, but that has enough other extraneous … that was used to create high-quality paper products. The mill had been run as a cost center for various public companies, and it had not made money in 40 years. In 2008 it was owned by …
… Carlos is a first year Master in Environmental Management Candidate at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. At FES, Carlos focuses his work in energy finance … private sector of developing countries. Prior to FES, Carlos worked as a financial advisor for a global building materials company, CEMEX, where he created financial models, including … a Student Affairs Committee representative, and a leader in the Latin America student group. He holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Tecnológico de Monterrey with a minor in …
… theory and institutional theory, with a special interest in the role of institutions for economic development. Specifically, Rodrigo studies how individuals are affected by and … at the Yale School of Management. He sits in the advisory board of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. Rodrigo also spent the 2014-2015 academic year advising the Mexican …
… James Little is a Masters of Environmental Management (MEM) candidate at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES), with concentrations in Business & Industrial … economy business models, and industrial symbiosis. He is a student co-leader of the Center for Business & Environment at Yale (CBEY) Pathways in Business and The Environment series, President of Forestry Club, a leader on the Student Affairs Committee, and works for the Yale Center for …
… social impact space. Most recently, Cici worked as a business development associate at Sunforge, a solar start up at Greentown Labs, which is the largest cleantech incubator in North America. Before coming to Yale, she spent 3 years at Energy Solutions, a clean energy consulting firm …
… - which endeavors to unify and leverage the power of Yale’s mission-driven community for the greater social good. He is also the former co-chair of the Yale Alumni Task Force on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and former co-chair of Project Redwood, a social …
… and is currently doing a Master of Advanced Management at the Yale School of Management. Before Yale, she was working as a Medical and Public Health Policy Specialist at Policy … firm. She has also worked as a consultant at the WHO Environment and Health Program, and for the Portuguese Group of Activists in Treatments, the biggest nonprofit in Portugal focused on HIV and harm …
… a MESc and attended the doctoral program in environmental science at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. In 2013, with two good friends from Yale, Yong co-founded … Systems and Nature Based Solutions Yong Zhao … Alumni, Business Leaders Yong Zhao School of Forestry 2013 Yong Zhao, the Co-Founder and CEO of junzi, a modern fast-casual concept that … a MESc and attended the doctoral program in environmental science at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. In 2013, with two good friends from Yale, Yong co-founded …