… One year ago, I was considering whether I should apply to Yale’s Finance and Deployment of Clean Energy … today I was in last year. So I dug up that list of questions to see what answers I have for my younger self. Question 1: Will the program be helpful to someone already working in … do a hard career switch (I certainly don’t want to be responsible for a company’s financial modeling on my own), it is great at coloring in the narrative and helping me understand how …
… Years ago at an intellectual property law conference in Washington, D.C., then-Senator Orrin … the years, and I can tell you this: what they lack in personality they more than make up for in intelligence. Maybe IP attorneysscore low on the charisma scale because they—like … time—raised issues and made connections that I had never thought of. And this has been the casefor the 16+ other live sessionssince then. It’s also been true for the dozens of times …
… A little over a year ago I was introduced to a few co-workers outside my department who I never had much of an … recognized we all had a very similar desire in being “agents of change” within the energy business. Up until that point in my career I had spent most of my time in the field in … in the program. It’s no surprise but I’m frequently flipping back through lectures and models as they pertain to my new world. I can’t wait to see what else I will learn from the …
… I’m a current (2021-2022) FDCE cohort student, and I want to be completely honest with you about the program, because I remember … of this exercise, the title of which made me think of the myriad self-help books in the businesssection of a used bookstore. As we progressed through the workshop, though, it … evaluated insurance, energy generation forecasting, and best practices in balance-sheet modeling, all before detailing how tax incentives dramatically affect how investors …
… In our first week of orientation of the Financing and Deploying Clean Energy program, Yale lecturer … the North Park Village Nature Center. The Nature Center has been my community and sanctuary for over half my life. I started as a junior camp counselor, eventually working my way up to lead my own beekeeping classesfor high schoolers. When my …
… The Yale Center forBusiness and the Environment (CBEY) is looking for a team of students to participate in an … the opportunity to provide public investors with forward projections on innovative businessmodels that are profitable but have limited access to capital, and (b) allow said companies …
… Attending a sustainability conference was at the top of my businessschool bucket list and I was ecstatic when I received the opportunity to … open pavilions throughout the conference Each country had its own pavilion where daily events were organized around specific topics. Then there were the side events which were …
… Six student teams were recently awarded Climate Innovation Grants by the Yale Center forBusiness and the Environment (CBEY). CBEY awarded almost $15,000 this year to help further … set of submissions this year, with innovation not just in the approach but also in the model and the way the entities were structured," said Urvi Talaty, Environmental Innovation …
… Last year was dubbed the year of the special-purpose acquisition company (“ SPAC ”) and the … farming. It requires less transportation because it often uses a direct farm-to-consumer model. It is more resilient because natural calamities like fires and droughts are less … if companies are able to positively differentiate their products from others on the market. Eventually, it will help to establish long-term contracts with retailers, as the …
… Are you considering applying to the Yale program in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy (FDCE) and … Energy Project Finance course also gives participants an opportunity to build a financial model from scratch with Dan Gross. In one instance, a solar developer was even able to … in clean energy, whether it be policy or on the technology side, building their own small businesses. And I think in the long term that is going to continue to bear fruit. I now have …