… Companies are in a constant state of disruption and evolution as they attempt to stay ahead of … model and promotes the elimination of waste through the continual use of natural resources. This holistic framework allows companies to evaluate the environmental impact of their products from natural resource extraction to end-of-life product disposal. …
… Finance and ESG Equity and Justice Bridging the Gap: How Philanthropy Can Unlock Impact Investing … Bridging the Gap: How Philanthropy Can Unlock Impact Investing … holds great potential where philanthropy fallsshort—mobilizing the scale of financial resources needed to address the world’s pressing problems. According to the Global Impact … research presented by Namrita Kapur of Growald Family Fund during a September 2019 talk at YaleSchool of Management,3 this report exploresspecific mechanisms and case studies to …
… was placed under increased scrutiny. In addition to being used as a cooking oil, it is in our cookies, ourshampoos, and is used as a biofuel. As a versatile plant with efficient, … other vegetable oils, production pressures have led to undeniable environmental and social impacts on both global and local scales. The most notable of those impactsstem from … literature, news articles, and reports, and to particularly relevant sections of the YaleSchool of Management’s (SOM) palm oil case. These materials can be read on their own, …
… Five Yalestudents designed an off-grid renewable energy system for a meat processing plant in Montana. The plant’s nonprofit owner sought to achieve independence from the local energy grid. The Yale team recommended a hybrid solar-wind-storage system, plus a backup gas generator, to …
… Low productivity in agriculture is a significant development challenge, yet many processes used to increase land productivity … technologies depends on farmers’ understanding of the technologies, their decision to adopt technology, and whether the technology is correctly used. Social science and marketing … Solutions Equity and Justice Participants Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak Professor of Economics at YaleSchool of Management ahmed.mobarak@yale.edu … Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak … Low productivity …
… The Yale Farm was founded in 2003 by a group of students who wished to see the dining hallsserve more … and helped inspire the Yale Dining Hall to move toward more organic and locally grown food sources (though the vast majority of the food comes from sources other than the Yale Farm). … series of educational programs related to food. Today the Yale Farm is a large educational initiative within the university. The farm growssome 200 varieties of vegetables, fruit, …
… The objective of this project is to investigate ways that consumers make inferences about green product quality. … heuristic, whereby they assume that companies have a fixed amount of manufacturing resources. Thus, resources devoted to “making the product green” come at the expense of making … Solutions Participants George E. Newman Associate Professor of Management and Marketing at YaleSchool of Management george.newman@yale.edu … George E. Newman … The objective of this …
… Soil health provides critical ecosystem services related to water quality, drought … staff. Each state has its own policy and agricultural context, so the reader is encouraged to utilize the recommendations that fit their own circumstances. Case examples … identified by soil health policy experts. This guidebook was produced as part of The Yale Center for Business and the Environment’s ongoing Regenerative Agriculture Initiative . …
… The objective of this project was to use both the travel cost method and the contingent valuation method to … create economic incentives for private forest owners by drawing upon previously untapped sources of publicly derived funding. Project Outcomes Based on these findings, the … part of ongoing land management and research projects in the Quiet Corner Initiative at the YaleSchool of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Projects conducted through the courses …
… Standing at water’s edge, Marina Bay Sands (MBS) annually attracted 45 million visitors who … company, Las VegasSands Corp., had worked hard to make operations and facilities more resource-efficient. The resort had garnered a Green Mark Platinum Award and was actively … how could the MBS team ensure that the work they were doing would actually positively impact the ecosystems they hoped to preserve? Developed in partnership with National …