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Danielle Salah, SF Cohort 21 Vice President of Impact Analytics at HIP Investor Danielle builds and manages HIP Investor’s database of impact metrics on municipal bond issuers, and uses the data to create customized solutions that add value for the company’s clients by providing them with smart data which drives higher impact investment decisions. She received her …

Investing in Our Future: Experiential Learning with Alameda County By Sarah Lerhaupt It’s always a tense moment in class when students are preparing to select their Experiential Learning (EL) partners – a relationship that will define the semester. Each EL Partner comes to PGS with a sustainable management challenge that staff connects with course content. …

When they see injustice, Presidians are anything but meek. Named one of Bloomberg’s 2017 Top 50, Natasha Lamb, Managing Director of sustainable wealth management firm Arjuna Capital and a Presidio alumna (Seattle Cohort 4), has– time and again– persuaded industry titans to disclose concealed information. As a Portfolio Manager and Director of Equity Research and …

Human well-being must become the overarching goal of new technology and product development. Businesses can do well by doing good things for society and our environment. Introducing Dr. Dariush Rafinejad’s new book:   SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT INNOVATION: Entrepreneurship for Human Well-Being Ross Publishing, August 2017 Dariush Rafinejad, Ph.D.   This important book, designed for academic courses, …

This summer, four Presidio Graduate School students embarked on a mission to drive energy and sustainability change in organizations across the country. Alex Grande, Anuraag Jhawar, Doug Perry, and Robert Bartolucci all served as fellows in Environmental Defense Fund’s prestigious EDF Climate Corps fellowship program. While their experiences differed in size and scope, they intersected …

Megan Morrice, C20 Leading Client and Partnership Development at HIP Investor HIP Investor is a global leader in impact investing, Megan has experienced firsthand the positive impact that companies have when investing where their mission lies. Megan’s experience includes working as a Financial Advisor for MetLife, a financial-services and insurance wholesaler for Leisure, Werden & …

Alumni Spotlight: Mona Das is Running for Congress Meet Mona Das. Mona’s parents immigrated to America from India when she was 8 months old with $6 in their pocket, and an unfailing desire to build a better life for their family. Mona’s parents imbued her with courage, determination, and a strong work ethic. She settled …

Presidio Graduate School is always exploring and nurturing new opportunities to spread its brand of sustainable management and our techniques for teaching it. Entering into collaborations with other universities offers another avenue for doing this in addition to teaching our own graduates. This represents a new kind of leverage for us in our efforts to …

Presidio Graduate School is pleased to publish the below blog written by professor emeritus, Dr. Dwight Collins. Dear Presidians, The 2017 Worldwatch Institute State of the World (SOW) includes two very positive references to PGS. Its title this year is EarthEd with a focus on the state of education across the planet relative to sustainability. In a …

In step with Earth Day and Fashion Revolution Week, a week-long campaign calling for greater transparency, sustainability and ethics in the fashion industry and commemorating the Rana Plaz factory collapse, where 1,138 people were killed and many more injured on April 24, 2013, the Sustainable Fashion Club hosted a clothing swap during San Francisco campus’s 4th …