The “Economic Security Index” (ESI), a new tool to measure the economic well-being of American families which was developed at the Rockefeller Foundation by Yale Professor Jacob Hacker, will be launched on July 22 in Washington, D.C.Members of the media...
Yale University has received a $7.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create the Microsavings & Payments Innovation Initiative (MPII), a research effort designed to understand and communicate the development potential of...
We were deeply saddened to learn that Edward P. Evans passed away on Friday, December 31, 2010, less than two weeks after the announcement of his magnificent gift to support the construction of the new Yale School of Management campus. President Richard C...
Two Yale professors have developed a website—GiveItBackforJobs.org—to encourage and facilitate Americans to donate the tax cuts just approved by Congress to charitable organizations that help those in need.Jacob Hacker, the Stanley Resor Professor of...
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...
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...
Preeminent Wall Street economist Stephen Roach has been appointed a Senior Research Fellow of The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University with a joint appointment at the Yale School of Management effective July 1, 2010.A highly influential...
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...
