Impact & Innovation
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Join the conversation as social entrepreneurs from around the world come to Yale SOM to share the challenges they are grappling with and the insights they are gaining in the field. From rural India and Kenya to the inner cities of the U.S., from the environment to nutrition to maternal child health, this series cuts across sectors to examine the convergence of business and society.
Impact & Innovation
9M ago
Erik Clemons returns to share his work as founding CEO of ConnCorp, a sister organization of ConnCAT which has acquired and is revitalizing commercial properties in underinvested neighborhoods in New Haven. Their ultimate goal is to catalyze and support a place-based impact investing ecosystem in the city ..read more
Impact & Innovation
9M ago
Song Kim, co-founder and CEO of KovaDx, empowers patients with sickle cell disease and other rare blood disorders, while changing our perceptions of what it means to be a CEO and the many paths to entrepreneurship ..read more
Impact & Innovation
9M ago
Ben Young, Co-Founder of Hugo & Hoby, makes sustainable furniture accessible to corporate customers with their network of local fabrication shops and their partnership with community forestry initiatives. ..read more
Impact & Innovation
9M ago
Greg Grinberg, CEO of ActualFood, fights chronic disease using technology and behavioral science, by building an online grocery system that nudges consumers to make healthy choices ..read more
Impact & Innovation
9M ago
Janice Shade, Founder of LocalCap, pursues her vision of democratizing entrepreneurial financing ..read more
Impact & Innovation
9M ago
Erik Clemons, President & CEO of ConnCAT, shares the work that he does to create impact at three different levels: direct service for individuals, community level initiatives, and policy level work to tackle root causes ..read more
Impact & Innovation
9M ago
Doug Rauch, founder of Daily Table, tackles the food desert in inner cities ..read more
Impact & Innovation
9M ago
Andrea Levere, President Emerita of Prosperity Now, questions what’s next in building equitable financial markets ..read more
Impact & Innovation
9M ago
Kathryn Finney, CEO of digitalundivided (DID), quantifies the role of black and latinx women in the startup world ..read more
Impact & Innovation
9M ago
Trishan Panch, CMO of Wellframe, tracks behavioral data to help patients be producers of their own health ..read more