… Yale Climate and Energy Institute on November 12, 2015. Bob Litterman, former head of risk management for Goldman-Sachs, hopes that society will be as lucky as he … for the next seven hours. For a man who has spent years trying to alert the financial community to the dangers of global warming, it was eerily reminiscent of a column he’d … dangerous road. Litterman’s latest vehicle for addressing climate change is the second Low-Carbon Portfolio Case Competition , organized by Yale School of Management, for …
… in San Francisco. Patrick Hook (MF/MBA '13) is a decision support manager at Conservation Forestry, a timberland investment management organization based in Exeter, NH. Alumni … research the investment risks inherent in wetland mitigation banking during an Forest and Ecosystem Finance course; while completing a required assignment, they discovered that it … recent joint degrees reflect on receiving the grant Victoria Grieves (MBA '18, Master of Environmental Management '18) Spenser Shadle (MF/MBA '13) currently manages …
… This weekend amongst the crowds and high profile names at the Yale Environmental Sustainability Summit, you’ll find Conservation Matrix – an innovative crowdfunding platform started by two current joint degree students, Thomas Selby (MEM/MBA ’16) and Sumit … dollars sitting aside, it’s nearly impossible to put your money into saving a specific ecosystem. We want to change that.” Selby and Kadakia will be at the YESS conference this …
… new senior director of solar ambassadors, spoke to students from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Management as part of the GE Colloquium on Sustainability Leadership , a lecture series presented by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment . Frances Beinecke, YC ’71, FES ’74, former president of …
… - Slides Instead of Learning Opportunities, and it’s something you may have experienced before. During lunch time break, several dozen audience members gather in a lecture hall. They … her team at Adidas we chose the following question: “How could adidas bring its social and environmental commitments and achievements to life in the retail store experience?” Forty … this swirl of ideas until themes and patterns emerged, and turned those themes into 90-second pitches that they delivered to the entire group. Throughout the process, Elizabeth was …
… The Sabin Stories will introduce you to former winners of the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize as they share experiences and reflect … built around a patent-pending technology Zack developed at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies that uses satellites to determine the size and species of trees in … new technology faced a high burden of proof in an industry that was cautious and slow to embrace change. They overcame these initial hurdles by starting with small pilot projects and …
… Will 2015 prove to be a historic year for climate and sustainability? There is reason to hope, according to Peter Bakker, … of the National Resources Defense Council and a scholar at Yale; Pavan Sukhdev, an environmentaleconomist and CEO of GIST Advisory; and Mary Evelyn Tucker, a scholar of religion and the …
… of the latter and cases featuring the US energy company’s massive financial fraud are therefore taught in business schools around the world. Here are seven reasons why the Volkswagen … … Sep 28, 2015 Seven reasons Volkswagen is worse than Enron Yale SOM's David Bach writes for the Financial Times David Bach It has only been a week since the stunning revelation … of the latter and cases featuring the US energy company’s massive financial fraud are therefore taught in business schools around the world. Here are seven reasons why the Volkswagen …
… The boy from Sierra Leone was 10 or 11 years old. He was quick to learn, though never formally schooled. William Warshauer (‘86 BA) met and befriended him while a Peace Corps … “Helping people with information is the first thing we tend to do,” said Warshauer. Second, once a viable business plan has been drawn up, TechnoServe connects farmers with the … 24, 2015 More Business, Less Poverty: The shared value revolution Dylan Walsh (Master of Environmental Management '11) The boy from Sierra Leone was 10 or 11 years old. He was quick …
… The problem, Jenkins says, is that fund managers and fund selectors have no single standard for analyzing or ranking Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors or Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) … The problem, Jenkins says, is that fund managers and fund selectors have no single standard for analyzing or ranking Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors or Socially …