… The Sabin Stories will introduce you to former finalists of the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize … It was huge for us! It wasso validating to have this well-respected competition recognize our efforts and encourage us to dream big.” Becky Gallagher , SOM & FES’16 and Jessie … the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI) Venture Creation Program, which allowed the young women to perform customer interviews and answer important questions around the market size …
… Minh Tsai was working at CharlesSchwab when the dotcom bubble burst. He weathered two rounds of … buck don’t go into food.) The company works with only organic farmers in the U.S. and encourages them to experiment with soybean types; though more than 200 varieties existed, not … English; he is committed to gender diversity, too, with a nearly even split between men and women. And if employees don’t feel that internal opportunities are keeping up with their …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) has awarded six grants to Yale students and faculty to … Hake Fish, whose population is nearing collapse. Findings will be generalizable to other resource management settings [Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale SOM), Andres Gonzalez (UC-Berkeley)]; … and Case studies around challenges and best practices of bringing sustainability into day-to-day businessstrategy in emerging markets [Daniel Esty (Yale SOM/YLS/FES), Isabel …
… “Sustainability professionals have to be polyglots, to shift gears and speak multiple … across functions and throughout an organization. The key, McColloch said, is “focusing on your audience and understanding what their priorities are and understanding how the work that we are trying to move forward …
… 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, … has a fellowship and ambassador program. Sustainable Finance and ESG Equity and Justice What’sstopping us? Women’sEntrepreneurshipDay2015 … Jan 23, 2016 What’sstopping us? …
… 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. … by development and climate change to agricultural yields, which drive their bottom line. “What’s going to become of our palate – the scents and flavors we give to buyers – 50 years …
… The TowardsScience Communications with Impact course taught by Paul Lussier at the School of Forestry … As a joint-degree MBA/MEM student interested in social and environmental innovation and entrepreneurship, this project was intellectually rewarding and exciting for me personally. …
… I walked into Paul’s class, not really sure what to expect, but intrigued by the title of his class, “TowardsScience Communications … Why We Disagree about Climate Change , George Marshall’s Don’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 stories that speak to peoples' core values have more impact than 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. This transformation will affect business, … issymbolic of the ways in which both businesses’ role in society is changing, as well aswhat will be needed by business to accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy. “One …
… A new global study of more than 3,700 students at 29 top businessschools found that corporations … unwilling to act on environmental issues are increasingly punished by the men and women they would like to recruit. The study, conducted by Yale University in collaboration … economic growth and provide new jobs. “We often talk about a transformational change of oursociety, when we speak about climate action. And that transformation will affect both …