50 Years of Impact

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.

Helped young women from New Haven practice using their voices and envisioning their futures.

Translated complex investment strategies into a spreadsheet-based tool aimed at individuals.

Implements research-backed methods of teaching reading and math at a regional charter school network.

Collaborated with impact-oriented organizations across the globe as part of a for-credit course.

Outlined what developing economies can do when important commodities, like fertilizer, rise in price as a result of war.

Found that when municipalities stop publishing newspaper notices about their actions, citizen engagement with decision-making decreases.

Lead ventures innovating for social good in construction, energy, and agriculture.

Created a repository of data on school system governance, so scholars can understand how effective leadership shapes student outcomes.

Parsed existing data—like cellphone records—with machine learning to direct aid more effectively.

Invests in science-intensive innovations that require deep expertise and long timelines to succeed.

Stewards a Massachusetts nonprofit newspaper, developing a sustainable model for trustworthy local news coverage.

Created a machine-learning system that interprets self-reported memories from forcibly separated parents and children to shorten family searches by years.

Developed an app to help low-income Nigerians access healthcare and manage chronic conditions.

Testified before Congress on the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet and the importance of its independence.

Developed Whole Foods’ 365 brand, using joy and playfulness to woo shoppers and expand the reach of organic and natural products.