Tamer Institute

In its latest round of funding, Kinnos (a Tamer Fund for Social Ventures portfolio member) raised $15M, bringing the company’s total funding raised to $22.8M and helping establish Highlight — a colorizing technology for mission-critical disinfectants that helps prevent the spread of surface-borne pathogens — as a global standard of care and practice.

Phoebe Boyer ’93, president and CEO of Children’s Aid, makes the case that higher wages are needed for nonprofit employees in NYC.

Here are five takeaways from the inaugural "Charting a Path Forward With Business Schools and Corporations" conference, which was designed to draw greater attention to the employment barriers formerly incarcerated people face—and the steps necessary to remove them.

The center's Inclusive Entrepreneurship Initiative seeks to build venture ecosystems in the communities around the School.

Clean tech company BlocPower, where Donnel Baird '13 is founder and CEO, is included in CNBC’s annual Disruptor 50 list, which "highlights private companies that are chasing some of the market’s biggest opportunities, and growing despite a tough capital markets environment and slowing economy."

Professor Vanessa Burbano's research on how CEOs taking a stance on social-political issues has "virtually no positive impacts on employee motivation whatsoever" is mentioned in this article on how sustainability has become increasingly more important to prospective business school students.

Entrepreneur Jason Kang, ’16SEAS, was honored for the creation of the venture's Highlight technology, which colorizes disinfectants, and for his pioneering work improving health care cleaning and infection prevention standards globally.

The center is mentioned for providing programs that support a deeper pipeline of female founders in the field of investing to scale companies to take meaningful climate action.

At this year’s Climate Business & Investment Conference, headlined Climate × Data, five common themes emerged from panel discussions and interactive presentations.

"At Columbia, I found a dedicated academic space where I can engage my interest in environmental sustainability while growing my financial expertise through the courses and learning opportunities organized through the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change," says M.A. Miller '24, on how the center's curriculum programming led her to ultimately choose CBS.