50 Years of impact

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.

Uses AI to automate the pre-construction process, helping builders plan projects more efficiently and accurately.

Created an algorithm that allowed San Francisco to revamp school bus schedules, saving money and maximizing sleep for kids.

Showed that when an AI model is asked to hypothesize about why a solution works, it produces more trustworthy results.

Develops algorithms that can draw electoral districts aligned with human intuition about fairness.

Developed actionable solutions to pressing challenges facing students and schools.

Unites stakeholders, including skeptics, around wind and solar projects that bring value to communities.

Used economic data to show that persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya minority is tied to the price of rice and value of their land.

Found that when economists accept private data or fees from companies they study, trust in their research declines.