50 Years of Impact

Helps organizations create channels for employees with less power to voice ideas and propose innovative solutions.

Applied curiosity, purpose, and a search for meaning to a career in tech and a transition to end-of-life care.

Found that federal grants to clean up contaminated “brownfields” create jobs and boost home values for local communities.

Made private equity investments successful by building strong relationships with organized labor.

Proposed a model to make well-priced capital available to sustainable enterprises in the developing world.

As a Chicago Public Schools system leader, helped educators and principals identify effective strategies and replicate them across the city.

Explore how AI can accelerate research and prepare students to use it thoughtfully.

Helps guarantee the risks that come with essential investment in developing or conflict-wracked economies.

Leads a Yale clinic providing holistic care for an illness that disproportionately affects marginalized populations.

Found that police departments sharing traffic-stop data reduced stops in Black neighborhoods, but only temporarily.

Proposed a pay-per-crawl model for AI bots accessing website content, so publishers are compensated for the knowledge LLMs rely on.

Leads an iconic company's incorporation of sustainable ingredients, packaging, and supply chain practices into its business model.

Found that investors can generate returns by buying municipal bonds from counties facing environmental challenges and then financing conservation projects in those areas.

Leads strategy for a charter school network creating post-graduation career pathways for high school students.

Founded a nonprofit that helps give Bangalore residents a voice in local government.

Builds the UK’s innovation economy by identifying and backing crucial emerging technologies.

Found that on platforms like Polymarket, a small group of informed traders shape markets and take home most profits.

Leads a summer school program in behavioral finance that draws doctoral students from around the world.

Using Yale’s repository of historical stock prices, showed that true market bubbles are rare.

Highlighting companies’ exposure to dwindling water supplies in the American West.

Found that sharing your data can impose costs on other consumers, even those who opt out.

Helped New Haven leaders design economic development projects tailored to the city’s needs.

Leads Yale’s entrepreneurship ecosystem, helping students and faculty build impactful companies from university research.

Hosted pricing and negotiation workshops to help local businesses compete for larger contracts.