… It’s two weeks before our finance module launches, and I’m working my way through YouTube … I’ve used Excel as a donor management database and a way to keep track of who’s attending what webinar next month, but that when it comes to plugging in numbers and excel functions, … policies like renewable portfolio standards that support them. In recent years, as the four main energy sectors became increasingly intertwined, I began to notice that I lacked a …
… the pandemic, I decided to quit my job and move to Ithaca, N.Y. At the time, the city was looking for a director of sustainability to give life to the Ithaca Green New Deal (IGND), … the development of the City’sstrategy to mitigate GHG: we had an idea of the amount and source of emissions that needed to be mitigated. I was then in the process of designing a … defining policy, attracting investment, and developing partnerships. Fortunately, a lot of what we covered in the Policy Module was not only useful, but also instrumental in the …
… Years ago at an intellectual property law conference in Washington, D.C., then-Senator Orrin … this: "Patent lawyers, huh? I’ve met a lot of them over the years, and I can tell you this: what they lack in personality they more than make up for in intelligence. " Maybe IP … I’d learn at least as much from other members of the cohort as I would from the formal course materials. At the first of the live sessions in the Clean Energy Policy course, the …
… One year ago, I was considering whether I should apply to Yale’s Finance and Deployment of Clean Energy … may be in the position 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 … policy that wasn’t subtle. There are newer programs, technology and data than in the course materials. But even with moments of specifics feeling dated, the narrative and …
… Our just-released study of 2,035 global businessstudents found students increasingly believe that … for Advanced Management, located in 30 countries acrosssix continents. This follow-up to our 2015 inaugural report, Rising Leaders on Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change … the resources, and the networks to pursue positive and ambitious change for society.” -Ingrid C. Burke Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean; Professor of Ecosystem Ecology Yale School of the …
… Years ago at an intellectual property law conference in Washington, D.C., then-Senator Orrin … this: Patent lawyers, huh? I’ve met a lot of them over the years, and I can tell you this: what they lack in personality they more than make up for in intelligence. Maybe IP attorneys … I’d learn at least as much from other members of the cohort as I would from the formal course materials. At the first of the live sessions in the Clean Energy Policy course (which …
… A little over a year ago I was introduced to a few co-workers outside my department who I never had much of an … that piqued my interest. I knew that I had substantial knowledge gaps in the mechanics of our business, and they were a hurdle that I couldn’t research or network my way over. With … 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 last half of the program as well as from the rest of 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 … I was purely interested in the second half of the program: the 16 weeks of applicable coursework on energy project financing. And I just wanted to know: is the financing half of … markets. I have been pleasantly overwhelmed with the depth and breadth of content in what is a fascinating new topic for me! And we haven’t even touched on innovation yet! This …
… In our first week of orientation of the Financing and Deploying Clean Energy program, Yale lecturer … Peter Boyd posed the seemingly simple question “Why are you here?” This got me to thinking, what had gotten me to this program, to this place? As a lifelong city kid, I grew up knowing … whole new world just a few blocks from their home. When I watch them, I think of my own hoursspent laying across the bridge of the wetlands, amazed by the ease with which the water …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) is looking for a team of students (2-3) to participate in an independent study (equivalent to a full-credit course: 3 credits YSE/4 unitsSOM) on scaling up a circular solution for used and returned … manufacturing and supply chain landscape and other staff and faculty at Yale to understand what barriers exist to scaling up this idea, its environmental impact and how to tackle …