… innovative startup ideas from across campus are coming together April 14-15 at Evans Hall for Entrepreneurship Across Yale , an event featuring Yale’s biggest entrepreneurship … prizes with live pitching competitions, judging and prize presentations. At stake are three $25,000 prizes—the Thorne Prize for Social Innovation in Health or Education, … Yale. Stuart DeCew, Program Director at CBEY, says they are continuing to build resources around social ventures in the environmental space, from a speaker series to bringing …
… The Sabin Stories will introduce you to former finalists of the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize as they share experiences and … It was huge for us! It was so validating to have this well-respected competition recognize our efforts and encourage us to dream big.” Becky Gallagher , SOM & FES’16 and Jessie …
… Minh Tsai was working at Charles Schwab when the dotcom bubble burst. He weathered two rounds of layoffs. He watched hardworking and capable colleagues forced out while others who he felt were not as competent stayed on. He recognized politics … buck don’t go into food.) The company works with only organic farmers in the U.S. and encourages them to experiment with soybean types; though more than 200 varieties existed, not …
… The Yale Center forBusiness and the Environment (CBEY) has awarded six grants to Yale students and faculty … Hake Fish, whose population is nearing collapse. Findings will be generalizable to other resource management settings [Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale SOM), Andres Gonzalez (UC-Berkeley)]; … (Yale SOM/YLS/FES), Isabel Studer (EGADE)]. The Sobotka Collaborative grants will support three other projects: The exploration of current measurements of environmental impacts of …
… “Sustainability professionals have to be polyglots, to shift gears and speak multiple languages … across the organization,” Jenny McColloch ’12, director of restaurant sustainability for McDonald’s Corporation , advised students during the GE Colloquium in Sustainability … across functions and throughout an organization. The key, McColloch said, is “focusing on your audience and understanding what their priorities are and understanding how the work that …
… by Riddhima Yadav, YC '18 Consider: women perform 66 percent of the world’s work but earn 10 percent of the world’s income. At the same … part of the world we come from, women entrepreneurs face many of the same challenges: discouragement, household duties, financial dependence and maternal responsibilities. At UN … see the enthusiasm of these leading women and to listen to young students like myself share stories. It was also inspiring to hear the women there, with all of their accomplishments, …
… priorities into agricultural financing? Several investment funds showcased their strategies for investing in smallholder value chains at the Global Landscapes Forum in Paris on Dec. … outcomes tied to supply chain sustainability. Strategic Decisions to Boost Production Three factors have spurred investors to bolster smallholder production of forest and … water quality. This can also cause public health and social justice concerns. Depleted resources can then further reduce smallholder productivity and cause economic vulnerability. …
… The Towards Science Communications with Impact course taught by Paul Lussier at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies culminated in a trip to Paris where we presented our … As part of the course, students were paired with a client to work on a specific project. Three other students from across the university (Yale College, Yale FES and Yale SOM) and …
… Why We Disagree about Climate Change , George Marshall’s Don’t Even Think About It: WhyOurBrains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change , and Naomi Oreskes’, Merchants of Doubt as … founding his own company, M2U Media, a science communications strategy consultancy. After three months getting to know Paul, I think of him as an energizer bunny – an effervescent … what he calls “values-based humanistic communications” – the idea that compelling emotional stories that speak to peoples' core values have more impact than rational scientific data, …
… Yale University and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development announced a new “Knowledge Partners” … the COP21 climate change negotiations. “We often talk about a transformational change of our society when we speak about climate action. This transformation will affect business, …