Tamer Institute

Senior director Gwen Shufro ’06 joined local elected and community leaders and other representatives from Columbia to tour the new Manhattanville campus and learn more about the Columbia-Harlem Small Business Development Center.

Blocpower CEO Donnel Baird ’13 gave advice on going green in celebration of Earth Day, including calling your local utility company and telling them that you want your electricity to come from 100 percent clean energy.

"Entrepreneurship and Incarceration," a paper by Kylie Hwang, PhD ’20, was referenced in this report on how entrepreneurship for many formerly incarcerated New Yorkers "provides a meaningful pathway to economic opportunity."

Katherine Boorstein ’22's proudest CBS achievement was serving in the Nonprofit Board Leadership Program for the nonprofit Harlem Chamber Players (THCP), where she proposed a new board structure that the organization implemented.

Professors Shivaram Rajgopal and Bruce Usher write about how the new SEC climate disclosure proposal — if finalized — could motivate companies to increase investment in technologies that both reduce emissions and improve voluntary disclosure of their climate risks.

"This fresh equity round will energize us to scale faster so that we can continue doing what we do best, which is to bring more small business entrepreneurs into the fold of financial inclusion," said Hardika Shah ’09, founder and CEO of the fintech company Kinara Capital, which raised $50M to boost lending to MSMEs in India.

Hardika Shah ’09, founder and CEO of the fintech company Kinara Capital, writes about the factors to consider before taking a business loan to combat inflation.

Climate change presents humanity with a dizzying array of challenges, but our 2022 Climate Business and Investment Conference made clear that "many of these green shoots of progress are emerging from the world of business."

S. Mona Sinha ’93, center advisory board member, co-wrote a letter about how the leak of the Supreme Court draft decision about Roe v. Wade threatens women’s fundamental rights, and what feminist funders can do about it.

A panel at our 2022 Climate Business and Investment Conference underscores a dramatic revving up of demand for a technological niche.