Robert B. Zoellick, the President of the World Bank, will speak at Yale on Wednesday, February 9. Free and open to the public, the talk will take place at Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, at 4:15 p.m.The format of the talk, which is hosted by...
In their forthcoming book, “More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty,” Yale economist Dean Karlan and his co-author Jacob Appel take the reader on a tour of the developing world, where development and behavioral...
Microcredit, which involves giving small loans to very small businesses in an effort to promote entrepreneurship, has been widely touted as a way to reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth. A multitude of both non- and for-profit institutions are...
Take 4 million pounds of steel, 16.2 million pounds of concrete, 2.25 million pounds of glass, 123 miles of copper wire and 500 doors. Mix them using the latest in “green construction” materials and practices. Set the result on a 4.25-acre plot on the...
The new dean of the Yale School of Management, Edward A. Snyder, officially took the helm today (July 1) as dean and the William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and ManagementSnyder, who previously served as dean at the University of Chicago Booth...
Despite dire predictions about the demise of print, magazines have not reached the end of the road; they just need to blaze a new trail — albeit a challenging one.That was the hopeful message stressed by many of the expert presenters at the Yale...
Like the many of the 47 new companies it has helped create since 2007, the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI) has outgrown the adjective “start-up.”The institute, envisioned as a place where Yale students could get advice on implementing their business...