Tamer Institute

Hardika Shah ’09, founder of Kinara Capital, said that the "biggest driver factor" of her success is, "Staying true to my vision! From the start, I wanted to build a purpose-driven organization that serves small business entrepreneurs in India."

Damon Phillips, adjunct senior research scholar, explains, "Formerly incarcerated people who start businesses have a higher income than those that have employment... And we know that even those who start a business that doesn’t work out have a higher chance of being employed post-entrepreneurship."

Professor Shivaram Rajgopal's research, presented at our Climate Business and Investment Conference in April, suggests ways energy companies can be influenced by their investor stakeholders. Separately, reserach from Luisa Palacios, senior research scholar at Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy, who spoke on the same panel, suggests that, increasingly, oil and gas majors can be influenced by their investor stakeholders.

Priya Prasad ’22 and Three Cairns Fellow, was part of an MBA research team supported by senior lecturer and climate economist, Gernot Wagner, that found "ROOM products emit 33 percent fewer carbon emissions than traditional construction." The piece walks through how ROOM designs and produces "prefabricated modular products" that are "good for the environment."

Diana Hwang '18, the founder and executive director of the Asian American Women's Political Initiative (AAWPI), is interviewed in a Q&A.

Shazi Vsram '04, founder and CEO of Healthybaby, discussed the baby formula crisis.

Professor Vanessa Burbano researched employees' reactions to their companies taking a position on the 2017 "bathroom bills." She observed, “Employees are realising that their leaders are facing a choice over what to say and what to do, and they can potentially influence that in a way they didn’t five years ago.”

Professor Bruce Usher explains why divestment from fossil fuels is not enough to mitigate climate change, considering most fossil fuel companies are owned by governments in countries such as China and Russia. He is quoted saying, “The only way we can do that [stop using fossil fuels] is to replace products that are contributing to climate change. That requires an enormous amount of investment capital.”

Professor Vanessa Burbano is quoted saying, "There is definitely a sense of resistance amongst employees against the full-week, all-day, in-person work concept,” and "Remote work also comes with increased opportunities for worker misconduct, worker shirking and putting in less effort, as my research has shown, which is likely part of the reason that there is a desire amongst employers to bring people back to the physical office.”

The Justice Through Code (JTC) program — jointly offered by the Center for Justice and the center — is expanding thanks to a Grow with Google grant that will support our work to provide life-changing access to career-track opportunities in technology for justice-impacted individuals.