http://community.som.yale.edu/gsvc Yale School of Management Regional Final Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:08:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On October 15, 2007, Maureen Burke made a presentation on how to generate good ideas for ventures, how to compose a great team, and how to write a solid business plan. Click here to view a video of the presentation (requires Windows Media Player). Click here for a PDF of Maureen's slides. Click ... http://community.som.yale.edu/gsvc/?p=48 Feed Resource Recovery provides the food industry cost-effective waste disposal solutions that capture and reuse valuable nutrients and energy from previously discarded food waste — mirroring nature’s regenerative cycles. Feed Resource Recovery’s onsite waste conversion systems produce renewable energy and organic fertilizer from the food waste ... http://community.som.yale.edu/gsvc/?p=47 EcoInsure is a startup insurance company serving the needs of the land conservation community. Its primary product will be insurance covering the legal costs of enforcing and defending conservation easements. Conservation easements - legal agreements permanently limiting development of a property - are an increasingly popular tool for conserving private ... http://community.som.yale.edu/gsvc/?p=46 Norah McVeigh has over 20 years experience serving the financial and institutional development needs of the nonprofit sector. She is currently a senior manager at the Nonprofit Finance Fund, a federally-certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) providing financial and advisory services to the nonprofit sector. In this position she ... http://community.som.yale.edu/gsvc/?p=45 Planting Empowerment (PE) is the managing body and operator of partnerships that will invest in hardwood timber production in Panama. PE's four founders, all former Peace Corps Volunteers who worked in rural Panama, realized that poor Panamanians' agricultural current practices often lead to unchecked deforestation, soil degradation, and the loss ... http://community.som.yale.edu/gsvc/?p=44 PictureRx simplifies health information and addresses the $73 billion problem of low health literacy.Through patent-pending software, PictureRx enables providers to quickly produce Picture Prescription Cards, which use pictures to help patients understand what they're taking, how to take it, and what it's for. In the process, PictureRx improves adherence and ... http://community.som.yale.edu/gsvc/?p=43 Innovators in HOPE, was formed in October 2007 as team to compete in the Duke University’s 2007 Engineering World Health CURES Competition (CURES). According to leading research on investment in global health, the highest burden of disease in low and middle income countries is caused by low birth-weight, prematurity, and ... http://community.som.yale.edu/gsvc/?p=42 Michael began his career as a corporate banker with Bank of Boston. Following business school, his interest in brand management lead him to join Kraft General Foods as an Assistant Brand Manager in 1990, where he spent nine years in a series of positions of increased responsibility in brand ... http://community.som.yale.edu/gsvc/?p=41 Thank you for submitting your judgments. Please click here to enter data on another entry. Back to SurveyMonkey. http://community.som.yale.edu/gsvc/?p=40 Arjan Schütte is the Associate Director of The Center for Financial Services Innovation (an affiliate of ShoreBank Corporation). He manages the Center's investment and grant programs and works with portfolio companies and nonprofits to further their project goals. Under his direction, fund applicants more than doubled between 2004 and 2005, ... http://community.som.yale.edu/gsvc/?p=39