… The most innovative startup ideas from across campus are coming together April 14-15 at … part of the Yale Venture Challenge, sponsored by the Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES). “This event is a true display of the talent and innovation happening all across Yale’s … Yale. Stuart DeCew, Program Director at CBEY, saysthey are continuing to build resources around social ventures in the environmental space, from a speaker seriesto bringing …
… The Sabin Stories will introduce you to former finalists of the Sabin Sustainable Venture … for the Sabin prize, we were thrilled! It was huge for us! It wasso validating to have this well-respected competition recognize our efforts and encourage usto dream big.” Becky Gallagher , SOM & FES’16 and Jessie …
… Minh Tsai was working at CharlesSchwab when the dotcom bubble burst. He weathered two rounds of … day and employs about 80 people. (Tsai emphasized that if you wantto make a quick buck don’t go into food.) The company workswith only organic farmers in the U.S. and encouragesthem to experimentwithsoybean types; though more than 200 varieties existed, not …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) has awarded six grantsto Yale … Hake Fish, whose population is nearing collapse. Findings will be generalizable to other resource managementsettings [Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale SOM), Andres Gonzalez (UC-Berkeley)]; … CBEY program director Stuart DeCew SOM ’11, FES ’11. "The research projects funded this year show the breadth and depth of expertise at Yale and the commitment of faculty and …
… “Sustainability professionals have to be polyglots, to shift gears and speak multiple languages … acrossthe organization,” Jenny McColloch ’12, director of restaurantsustainability for McDonald’s Corporation , advised students during the GE Colloquium in Sustainability … across functions and throughout an organization. The key, McColloch said, is “focusing on your audience and understanding whattheir priorities are and understanding how the work that …
… by Riddhima Yadav, YC '18 Consider: women perform 66 percent of the world’s work but earn 10 percent of the world’s income. Atthe same time, they … part of the world we come from, women entrepreneurs face many of the same challenges: discouragement, household duties, financial dependence and maternal responsibilities. At UN … see the enthusiasm of these leading women and to listen to young students like myself share stories. It was also inspiring to hear the women there, with all of their accomplishments, …
… How do investment funds build social and environmental priorities into agricultural financing? Several … water quality. This can also cause public health and social justice concerns. Depleted resources can then further reduce smallholder productivity and cause economic vulnerability. … ingredients across 40 countries. “We rely 90 percent on smallholders. If Indian farmersdon’t wantto produce tuberose anymore, it could disappear from the palate. There are …
… The TowardsScience Communicationswith Impact course taught by Paul Lussier atthe School … by bringing together leading multidisciplinary scientists and powerful business leaders. This idea became the Science to Business (S2B) platform. Throughoutthe semester, we worked …
… included works from Mike Hulme’s Why We Disagree about Climate Change , George Marshall’sDon’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change , and Naomi Oreskes’, Merchants of Doubt as … what he calls “values-based humanistic communications” – the idea that compelling emotional storiesthatspeak to peoples' core values have more impactthan rational scientific data, …
… Yale University and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development announced a new “Knowledge … the COP21 climate change negotiations. “We often talk about a transformational change of oursociety when we speak about climate action. Thistransformation will affect business, but it needsto begin withthe institutionsthat …