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Career Experimentation in Graduate School

I came to the Yale School of Management in pursuit of my MBA because my chemical engineering career goals that once felt safe and certain ...

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Accelerating early-stage climate innovation

The 2023 Climate Innovation Grants saw 19 teams propose innovative solutions to address climate change. The proposed solutions include a range of sectors closely linked ...

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Yale Clean Energy Conference to Host Opening Reception at ClimateHaven

The Yale Clean Energy Conference, November 9th-10th, is fast approaching! In YCEC’s third year, we are partnering with ClimateHaven, where the conference will host a ...

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Yale Students Scoop $1 Million Hult Prize With Banana Waste Leather Start Up

The winner of the $1 million Hult Prize 2023, the world’s biggest student social entrepreneurship business competition, was announced in Paris on September 22nd by ...

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Climate tech startup aims to reduce banana waste through alternative leather

Climate tech startup Banofi, created by a graduate student from Yale University, is using banana waste from India to make a sustainable leather alternative. NBC ...

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Accelerating Yale’s Climate of Innovation

Stuart DeCew is Executive Director of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, a joint initiative of Yale School of the Environment and Yale ...

Yale Sustainability

Stuart DeCew interviews General Biological, the 2023 Sustainable Venture Prize Winner

The Sustainable Venture Prize was created in 2008 and awards $25,000 to a promising student business venture that advances environmental sustainability. As part of Startup ...

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The Future of Fashion: Printed Pants, Psychology, and Policy

The weekend of April 22nd and 23rd there were two conferences going on, in the words of my Uber driver: the coffee one and the ...

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Sustainable Venture Prize: The 2023 Winner

The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is delighted to announce the winner of the 2023 Sustainable Venture Prize. The Sustainable Venture Prize ...

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A photo of General Biological and Judges

Meet the Sustainable Venture Prize Finalists

We’re only days away from StartUp Yale, Yale’s biggest entrepreneurship awards packed with pitches, prizes, and world-changing ideas. At StartUp Yale, innovators join community leaders ...

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Idea to Execution

Going from idea to execution takes a lot of motivation. I struggled with this for Banofi Leather (my start-up that makes plant-based leather from banana ...

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What’s the Right Time to Start a Venture?

I first had the idea for a plant-based leather start-up over 2 years ago but I didn’t have the confidence to leave my safe corporate ...

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Air Company Co-Founder Shares Insights with Yale Students

-by Aprajita Singh (MEM '22) Dr. Staff Sheehan recently spoke to Yale students participating in the Climate Innovator Intensive, a joint initiative between Tsai CITY ...

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Sobotka Seed Prize for Sustainable Ventures: The 2022 Winners

The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is delighted to announce the winners of the 2022 Sobotka Seed Prize for Sustainable Ventures. CBEY ...

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Finding your "sustainability and…"

Job seekers need more than just a degree in sustainability to be attractive to companies. It's important to pair your degree with another skill or ...

GreenBiz

Tagan Engel Guest Co-hosts CT Public's "Seasoned" Podcast

Chef Plum and co-host Tagan Engel of The Table Underground head to Atticus Bakery in New Haven to delight in a warm Rosca de Reyes ...

Connecticut Public

This company wants to make air travel sustainable

In 2019, Air Company made a splash when it launched vodka derived from recaptured carbon, in an effort to reduce the amount of the harmful ...

CNN Business

Funding seven ventures through the Climate Innovation Grant

Recently, 23 teams presented their application to the Climate Innovation Grant, a program that provides independent feedback and seed funding for early-stage innovative solutions addressing ...

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YSE Student’s Line of Alternative Leather Consumer Goods Wins Startup Yale Sustainability Prize

Aatma Leather, co-founded by Yale School of the Environment student Jinali Mody, will manufacture cruelty-free, plant-based leather products, such as belts, shoes, and handbags, from ...

Yale School of the Environment

Planetary Problems Require Planetary Solutions

The Planetary Solutions Generator offers Yale students the opportunity to participate in a passionate and inspired community of innovators. These students want to get in ...

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