Tamer Institute

Hardika Shah '09, founder and CEO of Kinara Capital, co-authored this piece with Armaan Joshi for Forbes, focused on avoiding loan scams.

Tamer Fund for Social Venture portfolio member, Eat Offbeat, celebrated the opening of its Chelsea Market location at the end of June. Co-founder and CEO and Manal Kahi, '15SIPA, is quoted, "We are a team of refugees and immigrants from around the world with a passion for cooking. We love food, and we love sharing food, and we love sharing our culture through food."

Dean Costis Maglaras discussed the School's climate change curriculum.

Tamer Fund for Social Venture portfolio company ZELP is featured as a solution "to measure and filter methane on individual animals" in this article on the ABP research farm, Bromstead, in Shropshire.

Sandra Navalli '03, managing director of the center, and Priya Prasad '22 discuss the importance of integrating climate change discussions into business school coursework and programs.

Kelly Ifill '17, founder and CEO of Guava, a digital bank and community platform designed to support Black entrepreneurs and small business owners, is featured. Guava recently announced it closed a pre-seed investment worth $2.4 million.

Blocpower, founded and led by Donnel Baird '13, is featured in this article as an industry leader "empowering underserved communities to engage in the construction industry."

"Climate scientists have been sounding the alarm about the need for investment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions." To mitigate climate change with collective action, financial leaders need to invest in the era of climate change. Professor Bruce Usher says that we need to understand recent trends such as the physical risks, technological innovation, and evolving social norms. Read more on pages 22-23.

Professor Bruce Usher is quoted in this article on the potential passage of the House Inflation Reduction Act by the Senate discussing the EV market: "The proposed tax credit will make electric vehicles more affordable to a mass audience, accelerating the adoption rate at the critical point when EVs are moving from early adopters to the mass market."Senior lecturer Gernot Wagner is also quoted, asserting the Inflation Reduction Act, “is 100% accurate: Clean energy investments are anti-inflationary. The remedy for ‘fossilflation’ is to get off fossil fuels.”

Shazi Visram '04, founder of Happy Family Brands, is quoted from an earlier segment she participated in on CNBC: “It’s kind of like a perfect storm of so many terrible things happening and No. 1, should never have happened in the first place and we could have absolutely prevented it.”