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Leadership & Sustainability

Students from Yale SOM and the Yale School of the Environment collaborated on a new conference focused on the intersection of business and the environment. Organizer Nataliia Nevinchana ’27 reflects on lessons learned about how leaders push change forward in an uncertain policy and business climate.

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The most inspiring part of the conference? Seeing that even when conditions seem discouraging, there is a committed community of changemakers pushing forward. Knowing that makes it easier for me to wake up each day, keep learning, and work toward my goals.

Nataliia Nevinchana ’27, reflecting on the inaugural Yale Business and the Environment Conference

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At Yale, we learn directly from best-in-class professors, regulators, and industry experts, all of whom bring firsthand experience in policymaking during financial crises. Learning how banks conduct macroprudential policy, and what tools and regulatory measures are being applied, gives me evidence-based insights to bring back to my own team.

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