… Somehow we’re nearing April, and on campus, students are heading back from spring break adventures while polishing cover letters for the job and internship hunt. … but before we know it, exams will be wrapping up. With the constant hubbub of the academic calendar, sometimes we forget to take stock of everything that happens here through CBEY. We … Case competition SOM and FES students collaborated to bring the first annual “Low Carbon” Case Competition to SOM Academics In addition to regularly scheduled courses at the …
… the development and financing of solar and energy efficiency projects. Michel Puckett from the Clean Energy Finance Forum recently spoke with Ty Jagerson, founder and CEO of … us has been Lending Club. They’re a peer-to-peer engine, but a lot of their capital comes from institutional sources. It’s important for the quality and the spirit and the brand … … Mar 09, 2015 How to Tap the Medium-Scale Clean Energy Market Michael Puckett (MBA '15, Master of Environmental Management '15) Recent attention and growth in clean energy …
… 31 to explore this issue. In secondary markets, investors purchase securities or assets from other investors rather than from the companies that issue them. Secondary markets are available for many financial … Markets a Sustainable Capital Source for Energy Efficiency? Michael Puckett (MBA '15, Master of Environmental Management '15) As the energy efficiency finance market grows and …
… 17 th . But, the March 25 th application deadline is fast approaching! Mark your calendars. Every year, the Sabin Prize awards $25,000 to the most promising Yale venture at … Grant competition in the fall. In past years, two $10,000 winners have been selected from a large pool of applicants. However this year the field was so strong that two … Deadlines & Opportunities: Gearing up for the Sabin Prize Carley Wigod Hume (Master of Environmental Management '15) CBEY's own version of "Shark Tank," the 2015 Sabin …
… news source, and embarked on a large-scale solar research project with a $1.8 million grant from the Department of Energy. Throughout this eight-year evolution, our website remained … have made our online programming, new and old, freely available for those interested in the insights of leading thinkers at the intersection of business and the environment. The … stronger connections and community through our website redesign Stuart DeCew (MBA '11, Master of Environmental Management '11) Dylan Walsh (Master of Environmental Management '11) …
… trees, extract petroleum, or distill vodka if there is no water? Susannah Harris and I come from different water backgrounds, she from water efficiency standards and I from large-scale water resources management, but we … … Feb 24, 2015 Risky Water: Lessons from Student-Initiated Water Workshops Aaron Willis (Master of Environmental Management '15) What do casinos and beverage companies have in …
… rest of the admissions team recruited 10 professionals who have held leadership positions from industries as broad as China’s garment industry to the forensics practice at PwC. Four … sustainability issues. “Think what a difference it would make to us if we all regarded life from that point of view – if we went through it looking for opportunities of doing good” - … rest of the admissions team recruited 10 professionals who have held leadership positions from industries as broad as China’s garment industry to the forensics practice at PwC. Four …
… sustainability. A dichotomy of reporting styles, requirements and metrics hinders auditors from creating an environment suitable for testing. Variation in metrics weakens the strength … material to different industries by issuing detailed guidance on what metrics are expected from strong sustainability reporting. As part of "Sustainable Economy Week" at Yale, a … sense of how varied commitments are. Tesco uses an organizational target of becoming a zero carbon business by 2050 whereas Unilever uses a product target of halving the GHG impact of …
… Notes from Yale's Inaugural Low Carbon Case Competition On the heels of the US-China Summit and two pivotal divestment … to present their findings at a Commonfund gathering in Florida in March 2015. To gain insights for the case, teams pored over data regarding the university’s asset allocation …
… Cross-posted from the Global Network for Advanced Management The name of the course was “Natural Capital: … development. Just a few months back, during December of 2013, I was an MBA student from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile that had just received an invitation to join a … and work in the midst of this thriving and highly-connected community by joining the Master of Advanced Management program at Yale SOM and the Center for Business and the …