… Originally published in 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 … Models (IAMs), which describe climate change from an economist’s perspective, project future damages due to increasing CO 2 based on little more than global average surface …
… 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 … (MF/MBA '13) recently spoke to students at the Yale School of Management and Yale School of Forestry to share their story of how winning a Sobotka Collaborative Research Grant shaped … grant, Patrick and Spenser studied the risks inherent in wetland mitigation banking for investors; their white paper was subsequently adopted in the U.S. Army Corps of …
… 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 Kadakia (MF/MBA ’16). Supported through a grant from the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, Conservation Matrix enables high net worth investors and … acts as the intermediary between projects and smaller investors. Similar to Fundrise for real estate, Conservation Matrix aggregates key details about projects and enables …
… 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 … the Environment.” Read the full story on the Yale School of Management's website . Clean Energy Sustainable Finance and ESG Equity and Justice SolarCity’s Jon Carson on Building a …
… - 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 … to capitalize on those opportunities. GreenLight is a series of interactive, fast-paced innovation workshops launched in 2014 with the guidance and support of the Center for … of Yale students. When Elizabeth Henry Turnbull (SOM, FES ‘11), the Senior Manager of Energy and Environment at the adidas Group, was planning a recent visit to Yale, she shared …
… The Sabin Stories will introduce you to former winners of the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize as they share experiences and reflect … Building on the synergies of an undergraduate in computer science and graduate expertise in forest management, Max Nova, YC ‘12 and Zack Parisa, FES '09 started SilviaTerra in 2010 and … adventure has turned into a career for Max and he is eagerly pursuing it forward. In the future, he wishes to have more opportunities to connect with alumni and share his experience …
… Will 2015 prove to be a historic year for climate and sustainability? There is reason to hope, according to Peter Bakker, president and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. “The spirit of cooperation that has opened up is truly new,” he … SDGs: What’s Driving Business to Act on Climate Change Now? ” presented by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment on September 23. The panel was moderated by Brad Gentry, …
… manipulation is often held up as a prime example 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 …
… 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 volunteer in a village in the north of the country, and one day it hit him “full force between the eyes” that if their situations had been reversed—if Warshauer had instead … which crops are ready for market, when; they can also transact sales over the phone, which secures their revenue stream. Most important, Vodafone paid for and built the whole system …
… 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 … 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 … 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 …