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Fellow:Sarah Graf

2020-01-22T15:38:18Z

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Sarah Graf is a University Innovation Fellow and an MBA student at the Yale School of Management (SOM). She is focusing her studies at Yale on innovation and human-centered design in the healthcare industry. Sarah is passionate about health, justice, and human behavior. She grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and earned her undergraduate degree from Emory University with a double-major in chemistry and anthropology. Following her undergraduate studies, Sarah began her professional career in 2014 as a management consultant for PwC supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. She spent four years working on CDC projects spanning from laboratory quality management for the National Tobacco Lab to strategic operational support for the Chief Operating Officer during the height of the Ebola epidemic. Before coming to Yale, Sarah joined the pharmacy product innovation team at CVS Health and had the opportunity to apply design thinking to improve patient care. She fell in love with the process of uncovering solutions through empathy and better understanding of patient needs, and she helped to create the CVS Design Lab, an internal innovation unit focused on human-centered design and innovation across the enterprise.

At Yale, Sarah is a club leader for the [https://www.yalesomdi.com Yale SOM Design + Innovation Club] where she helps to educate other students on the power of design thinking mindsets, process, and methods. She is passionate about awakening the inner creative thinker in others as well as supporting entrepreneurship in underrepresented communities.

In January 2020, Sarah joined CVS Health as a Strategic Product Development Advisor in the CVS Design Lab. She leads product incubation for new retail pharmacy services, business model innovation, and enterprise strategy for Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)

==Related Links==

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yale_University Yale University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yale_University_Student_Priorities Yale University Student Priorities]

[https://www.yalesomdi.com/ Yale School of Management Design + Innovation Club]

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2020-01-22T15:36:42Z

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Priorities:Yale University Student Priorities

2019-10-13T20:31:09Z

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= Overview =

Yale has increased its investment in innovation, largely spurred by a grant from Joseph Tsai to create Tsai CITY, the on-campus center welcoming diverse students to pursue innovative ventures, projects, and initiatives. However, one of the main barriers to taking that first step to focused innovation is a perception of innovation as starting a company. Another hypothesis is that students' fear of failure poses another barrier to trialing innovation and creation. We aim to tackle these challenges through the following strategic priorities.

= Strategy #1: De-risking the pursuit of innovation and new ventures  =

Yale students generally do not like taking risks, so we need to find a way to encourage risk-taking. The top 15% of students from many schools, Yale included, are swept away to work in New York and consulting and financial companies. These are the students who are most likely to succeed with their own businesses. These are the smartest people that you want to be working on the biggest problems in the world. Instead, rational thinking about stability and security has prevented entrepreneurship from being a valid goal that they strive for. 

One opportunity for de-risking is providing course credit to students who pursue their own ideas. In the Yale School of Management (SOM), for example, students can take Startup Founders Practicum to earn course credit for working on their own venture. There is also a class offered called "Making it." Additionally, Tsai CITY offers a semester-long accelerator in which teams receive both funding and guidance to build out their ventures. Having Innovation Advisors (IAs) who have gone through the process guide teams in the accelerator can make students feel safe when they're starting a new company.

Also at SOM, the Global Social Entrepreneurship (GSE) course allows students to partner with global non-profits and for-profits to tackle real-world problems. These kinds of guided entrepenuership classes and clubs help to ease people into the idea of innovating. Successive failures can be demoralizing, especially for younger students, so these kinds of activities are especially useful for undergraduates, or anyone who might be exploring innovation and entrepreneurship for the first time.

= Strategy #2: Creating a Support Network for Those Pursuing their Ideas =

Leaders often run into the same problems in very different situations and environments. It would be a powerful tool to have a group of students who regularly meet to discuss these general leadership problems and how to fix them. This can be in the form of something as simple as a weekly or bi-weekly workshop (e.g., SOM's Startup Club's weekly workshop), or in something as formal as a leadership forum. Seniors students know the ins and outs of the school (e.g., where funding can be found, fastest ways to get approval, who to talk to for outside sponsorships etc.) can pass this information along to avoid other students re-learning something that has already been attempted and discovered.

Incorporating alumni into the system would make it even more valuable because they have experience from outside Yale that they bring to the table. Several of the students who we spoke with mentioned they chose thier current careers based on alumni or faculty mentors who had done similar careers.

= Strategy #3: Creating Entry Level Opportunities for Entrepreneurship =

Providing a way for all, even someone with no experience, to get involved in innovation is important for gaining new students and retaining them throughout their time at Yale. We need to find a way to stimulate opportunities for freshmen and sophomores in Yale College, or first years in the graduate programs, that will work with their limited skillset and enable them to create. This could come in the form of participating in day-long design and innovation sprints. It could also look like instigating small internships for students either at Yale or in early-stage startups such that students can have the opportunity to 'taste' entrepreneurship and innovation.
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= Strategy #4: Give Students More Opportunities to Innovate =

If Yale can somehow make students less busy with coursework, they can encourage students to spend that free time innovating. Almost everyone I talked to said they would innovate and think big if they had time to do so.  Google values this kind of "free time" very highly. Every employee is given 20% time, a time where they can work on thier own ideas that may or may not directly relate to their work. If we consider a student's full schedule, 20% would be a significant number of hours. 20% is approximately one class per semester here at Yale, and we think that there should be required entrepenuership, innovation, or independent work class. This is a new kind of thinking that should not be left out of a liberal arts education simply because it is new. 
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= Strategy #5: Teach Students the Basics of Entrepreneurship =

Intro micro-economics, a basic overview of rational thinking, is a fundamental course in an undergraduate's Yale Education. An equivalent style class for innovation would be a strong step towards changing the way our campus looks at innovation. In SOM, for example, students are required to take "Innovator." However, this class does not occur until Spring semester 2, meaning students are left without any concrete training related to innovation and entrepreneurship for the frst 6 months of their limited 2-year education. 
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= Strategy #6: Increase the Reach of Student Sharing =

There is opportunity to create more cross-school content and programming that allows students to share their work as well as learn from the work of their peers. In SOM, this occurs in a fragmented way. It might occur during a lunch session in the Social Impact Club. Or it might happen in a classroom. In the college, there are events like 2019's "Chun Challenge for Change," a pitch night in which the Dean of Students judges students' ideas related to solving the most proessing challenges impacting students.

One opportunity could be creating a podcast on which we host a weekly Q&A/background with a student founder. This enhanced reach could help demystify the belief that there is a high barrier to becoming a "founder" or launching a "venture."

= Related Links =

[[Yale University]]

[[Chinmay Jaju]]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sarah_Graf Sarah Graf] (2019)

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nitya_Kanuri Nitya Kanuri] (2019)

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ayushi_Shrivastava Ayushi Shrivastava] (2019)

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kira_sze Kira Sze] (2019)

[[Category:Student Priorities|Student_Priorities]]

School:Yale University

2019-10-13T20:30:09Z

Smosbygraf:

= Overview =

[http://www.yale.edu/ Yale University] has long been a hub for entrepreneurship and innovation in science, arts, policy, and business. As stated by Yale President Peter Salovey, one of [https://president.yale.edu/goals Yale’s critical ambitions] “to provide an unsurpassed campus learning environment that cultivates innovators, leaders, pioneers, creators, and entrepreneurs in all fields and for all sectors of society.”

In response to growing interest of students in entrepreneurship in the past decade, many Yale programs provide the tools necessary to facilitate research, innovation, and entrepreneurship. For example, Yale's engineering department continues to acquire cutting edge technology needed to make the campus a powerhouse in engineering innovation. Yale opened the [http://ceid.yale.edu/ Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID)] in 2012 and has continued to invest in its programming and sustainability. Yale School of Management is home to the [https://som.yale.edu/mission-objectives/interests-industries/entrepreneurship Program on Entrepreneurship], consisting of faculty, courses, and resources dedicated to students involved in early stage ventures. Providing space and resources to students to create whatever they can imagine is only one part of the equation for empowering innovation.

== Entrepreneurship at Yale ==

The entrepreneurship community at Yale and in broader New Haven is thriving and surprisingly full of resources and capital. The primary challenge for a student at Yale is navigating through an abundance of resources. Recently, Entrepreneurship at Yale has begun to tackle this challenge by developing a user-friendly resource database at [https://entrepreneurship.yale.edu/ https://entrepreneurship.yale.edu/].

In 2017, Yale opened the [https://www.city.yale.edu/ Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (CITY)], to serve as a central resource for Yale students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation. Operating with the mission “to inspire students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to seek innovative ways to solve real-world problems,” Tsai CITY offers programs for undergraduate and graduate students to foster learning and connections that promote innovation. 

=

== Entrepreneurship in Academic Classes ==

Courses that support and facilitate innovation can be found in nearly all of Yale’s academic departments. 

Classes at the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID) take a fresh perspective on what classroom learning can be. At the introductory level, factual knowledge is supplemented with hands-on experimentation and short-term project work in small groups. At the advanced level, students work on long-term projects in teams while professors act more like coaches than sages. Some courses lean more towards engineering, with a focus on working hardware and prototype testing. Others are more innovation-based, with a focus on sound conceptualization and plans for commercialization. Both require a design process infused with creativity and interdisciplinary collaboration to be successful.

A selection of courses below highlights the diversity of academic offerings in which students engage in entrepreneurship, innovation, and/or design:

MENG 489/EENG 481: Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Capstone Design CoursesStudy of the design process, including concept generation, project management, teamwork, detail design, and communication skills. Student teams implement a real-world design project with hardware objectives that can be achieved in a term, and a problem definition that allows room for creative solutions.

ENAS 323: Creativity and New Product DevelopmentAn overview of the stages of product development in a competitive marketplace, with simulation of the process in class. A hands-on approach to creativity and the development process.

ENAS 118: Introduction to Engineering, Innovation, and DesignAn introduction to engineering, innovation, and design process, aimed at freshman. Principles of material selection, stoichiometry, modeling, data acquisition, sensors, rapid prototyping, and elementary microcontroller programming. Types of engineering and the roles engineers play in a wide range of organizations. Lectures are interspersed with practical exercises. Students work in small teams on an engineering/innovation project at the end of the term.

MGT 464: Startup Founders Practicum: The purpose of this course is to provide full-time SOM students with a mechanism to work on their startup ventures for credit, applying principles derived from their other coursework, particularly the integrated core curriculum. Students in this course articulate milestones for their ventures and work with faculty, staff, and mentors to meet those milestones. Generally, the course employs “lean” methodology. Admitted students are given working space in the Honest Tea Entrepreneurial Studies Suite of Yale SOM’s Evans Hall.

= Landscape Canvas =

The following [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10JRriFxI6lhJdf74oMh3CWgnNUkyIKTDuyTkyVuketE/edit?usp=sharing spreadsheet] outlines specific resources that Yale has for furthering entrepenuership and innovation on campus broken down into the following categories:

*Make it a priority;
*So, you want to learn more;
*You want to apply your knowledge to a specific project;
*You have effectively engaged in I&E;
*You have fine-tuned your understanding of I&E and reframed your approach to your education and career.

Each of the categories is necessary at different stages of a students path to entrepenuership. Yale has many resources, and this document's goal is to characterize Yale's landscape and identify our strengths and weaknesses. 

To view Yale's landscape canvas, please follow [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10JRriFxI6lhJdf74oMh3CWgnNUkyIKTDuyTkyVuketE/edit?usp=sharing this link]. 

= Related Links =

[[Yale University Student Priorities]]

[[Chinmay Jaju]] (2016)

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Sarah_Graf Sarah Graf] (2019)

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Nitya_Kanuri Nitya Kanuri] (2019)

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Ayushi_Shrivastava Ayushi Shrivastava] (2019)

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Kira_sze Kira Sze] (2019)

[[Category:Universities]]

Fellow:Sarah Graf

2019-10-13T20:29:06Z

Smosbygraf:

Sarah Graf is a University Innovation Fellow and an MBA student at the Yale School of Management (SOM). She is focusing her studies at Yale on innovation and human-centered design in the healthcare industry. Sarah is passionate about health, justice, and human behavior. She grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and earned her undergraduate degree from Emory University with a double-major in chemistry and anthropology. Following her undergraduate studies, Sarah began her professional career in 2014 as a management consultant for PwC supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. She spent four years working on CDC projects spanning from laboratory quality management for the National Tobacco Lab to strategic operational support for the Chief Operating Officer during the height of the Ebola epidemic. Before coming to Yale, Sarah joined the pharmacy product innovation team at CVS Health and had the opportunity to apply design thinking to improve patient care. She fell in love with the process of uncovering solutions through empathy and better understanding of patient needs, and she helped to create the CVS Design Lab, an internal innovation unit focused on human-centered design and innovation across the enterprise.

At Yale, Sarah is a club leader for the [https://www.yalesomdi.com Yale SOM Design + Innovation Club] where she helps to educate other students on the power of design thinking mindsets, process, and methods. She is passionate about awakening the inner creative thinker in others as well as supporting entrepreneurship in underrepresented communities.

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yale_University Yale University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yale_University_Student_Priorities Yale University Student Priorities]

[https://www.yalesomdi.com/ Yale School of Management Design + Innovation Club]

Priorities:Yale University Student Priorities

2019-10-13T20:28:43Z

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Fellow:Sarah Graf

2019-10-13T20:27:06Z

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Sarah Graf is a University Innovation Fellow and an MBA student at the Yale School of Management (SOM). She is focusing her studies at Yale on innovation and human-centered design in the healthcare industry. Sarah is passionate about health, justice, and human behavior. She grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and earned her undergraduate degree from Emory University with a double-major in chemistry and anthropology. Following her undergraduate studies, Sarah began her professional career in 2014 as a management consultant for PwC supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. She spent four years working on CDC projects spanning from laboratory quality management for the National Tobacco Lab to strategic operational support for the Chief Operating Officer during the height of the Ebola epidemic. Before coming to Yale, Sarah joined the pharmacy product innovation team at CVS Health and had the opportunity to apply design thinking to improve patient care. She fell in love with the process of uncovering solutions through empathy and better understanding of patient needs, and she helped to create the CVS Design Lab, an internal innovation unit focused on human-centered design and innovation across the enterprise.

At Yale, Sarah is a club leader for the Yale SOM Design + Innovation Club where she helps to educate other students on the power of design thinking mindsets, process, and methods. She is passionate about awakening the inner creative thinker in others as well as supporting entrepreneurship in underrepresented communities.

== Related Links ==

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yale_University Yale University]

[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Yale_University_Student_Priorities Yale University Student Priorities]

[https://www.yalesomdi.com/ Yale School of Management Design + Innovation Club]

Fellow:Sarah Graf

2019-10-13T20:24:22Z

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Sarah Graf is a University Innovation Fellow and an MBA student at the Yale School of Management (SOM). She is focusing her studies at Yale on innovation and human-centered design in the healthcare industry. Sarah is passionate about health, justice, and human behavior. She grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and earned her undergraduate degree from Emory University with a double-major in chemistry and anthropology. Following her undergraduate studies, Sarah began her professional career in 2014 as a management consultant for PwC supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. She spent four years working on CDC projects spanning from laboratory quality management for the National Tobacco Lab to strategic operational support for the Chief Operating Officer during the height of the Ebola epidemic. Before coming to Yale, Sarah joined the pharmacy product innovation team at CVS Health and had the opportunity to apply design thinking to improve patient care. She fell in love with the process of uncovering solutions through empathy and better understanding of patient needs, and she helped to create the CVS Design Lab, an internal innovation unit focused on human-centered design and innovation across the enterprise.
At Yale, Sarah is a club leader for the Yale SOM <a href="https://www.yalesomdi.com/">Design + Innovation Club</a> where she helps to educate others on the power of design thinking.

Fellow:Ayushi Shrivastava

2019-10-13T20:23:47Z

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Ayushi Shrivastava is a University Innovation Fellow and joint MBA/MPH student at the Yale School of Management (SOM) and Yale School of Public Health. She is focusing her students on the application of design thinking to solve complex challenges in healthcare. Ayushi grew up in Nixa, MO and earned her undergraduate degree in Public Policy Studies with a focus in Health Policy from the University of Chicago. After her undergraduate studies Ayushi was a technical strategist and consultant on the health policy team at Cerner, an electronic medical records vendor. She worked with large healthcare networks to ensure their workflows complied with the latest federal and state regulations and collaborated with the executive teams at these networks to strategize ways to maximize their regulatory incentive rewards. Ayushi is passionate about working with stakeholders across the various areas of healthcare to devise innovative ways to improve patient care.

At Yale, Ayushi is a club leader for the Yale SOM [https://www.yalesomdi.com/ Design + Innovation Club], where she helps to instill creative confidence in her fellow MBA students and forge partnerships across various student organizations and groups on campus.

Fellow:Sarah Graf

2019-10-10T20:49:55Z

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Sarah Graf is a University Innovation Fellow and an MBA student at the Yale School of Management (SOM). She is focusing her studies at Yale on innovation and human-centered design in the healthcare industry. Sarah is passionate about health, justice, and human behavior. She grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and earned her undergraduate degree from Emory University with a double-major in chemistry and anthropology. Following her undergraduate studies, Sarah began her professional career in 2014 as a management consultant for PwC supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. She spent four years working on CDC projects spanning from laboratory quality management for the National Tobacco Lab to strategic operational support for the Chief Operating Officer during the height of the Ebola epidemic. Before coming to Yale, Sarah joined the pharmacy product innovation team at CVS Health and had the opportunity to apply design thinking to improve patient care. She fell in love with the process of uncovering solutions through empathy and better understanding of patient needs, and she helped to create the CVS Design Lab, an internal innovation unit focused on human-centered design and innovation across the enterprise.

At Yale, Sarah is a club leader for the Yale SOM [https://www.yalesomdi.com/ Design + Innovation Club] where she helps to educate others on the power of design thinking.

Fellow:Sarah Graf

2019-10-10T20:49:46Z

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Sarah Graf is a University Innovation Fellow and an MBA student at the Yale School of Management (SOM). She is focusing her studies at Yale on innovation and human-centered design in the healthcare industry. Sarah is passionate about health, justice, and human behavior. She grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and earned her undergraduate degree from Emory University with a double-major in chemistry and anthropology. Following her undergraduate studies, Sarah began her professional career in 2014 as a management consultant for PwC supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. She spent four years working on CDC projects spanning from laboratory quality management for the National Tobacco Lab to strategic operational support for the Chief Operating Officer during the height of the Ebola epidemic. Before coming to Yale, Sarah joined the pharmacy product innovation team at CVS Health and had the opportunity to apply design thinking to improve patient care. She fell in love with the process of uncovering solutions through empathy and better understanding of patient needs, and she helped to create the CVS Design Lab, an internal innovation unit focused on human-centered design and innovation across the enterprise.

=== At Yale, Sarah is a club leader for the Yale SOM [https://www.yalesomdi.com/ Design + Innovation Club] where she helps to educate others on the power of design thinking. ===

Fellow:Sarah Graf

2019-10-10T20:49:35Z

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=== Sarah Graf is a University Innovation Fellow and an MBA student at the Yale School of Management (SOM). She is focusing her studies at Yale on innovation and human-centered design in the healthcare industry. Sarah is passionate about health, justice, and human behavior. She grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and earned her undergraduate degree from Emory University with a double-major in chemistry and anthropology. Following her undergraduate studies, Sarah began her professional career in 2014 as a management consultant for PwC supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. She spent four years working on CDC projects spanning from laboratory quality management for the National Tobacco Lab to strategic operational support for the Chief Operating Officer during the height of the Ebola epidemic. Before coming to Yale, Sarah joined the pharmacy product innovation team at CVS Health and had the opportunity to apply design thinking to improve patient care. She fell in love with the process of uncovering solutions through empathy and better understanding of patient needs, and she helped to create the CVS Design Lab, an internal innovation unit focused on human-centered design and innovation across the enterprise. ===

=== At Yale, Sarah is a club leader for the Yale SOM [https://www.yalesomdi.com/ Design + Innovation Club] where she helps to educate others on the power of design thinking. ===

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2019-10-10T20:45:38Z

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School:Yale University

2019-10-09T18:49:28Z

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School:Yale University

2019-10-09T18:46:06Z

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= Overview =

[http://www.yale.edu/ Yale University] has long been a hub for entrepreneurship and innovation in science, arts, policy, and business. As stated by Yale President Peter Salovey, one of [https://president.yale.edu/goals Yale’s critical ambitions] “to provide an unsurpassed campus learning environment that cultivates innovators, leaders, pioneers, creators, and entrepreneurs in all fields and for all sectors of society.”

In response to growing interest of students in entrepreneurship in the past decade, many Yale programs provide the tools necessary to facilitate research, innovation, and entrepreneurship. For example, Yale's engineering department continues to acquire cutting edge technology needed to make the campus a powerhouse in engineering innovation. Yale opened the [http://ceid.yale.edu/ Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID)] in 2012 and has continued to invest in its programming and sustainability. Yale School of Management is home to the [https://som.yale.edu/mission-objectives/interests-industries/entrepreneurship Program on Entrepreneurship], consisting of faculty, courses, and resources dedicated to students involved in early stage ventures. Providing space and resources to students to create whatever they can imagine is only one part of the equation for empowering innovation.

== Entrepreneurship at Yale ==

The entrepreneurship community at Yale and in broader New Haven is thriving and surprisingly full of resources and capital. The primary challenge for a student at Yale is navigating through an abundance of resources. Recently, Entrepreneurship at Yale has begun to tackle this challenge by developing a user-friendly resource database at [https://entrepreneurship.yale.edu/ https://entrepreneurship.yale.edu/].

In 2017, Yale opened the [https://www.city.yale.edu/ Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (CITY)], to serve as a central resource for Yale students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation. Operating with the mission “to inspire students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to seek innovative ways to solve real-world problems,” Tsai CITY offers programs for undergraduate and graduate students to foster learning and connections that promote innovation. 

=

== Entrepreneurship in Academic Classes ==

Courses that support and facilitate innovation can be found in nearly all of Yale’s academic departments. 

Classes at the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID) take a fresh perspective on what classroom learning can be. At the introductory level, factual knowledge is supplemented with hands-on experimentation and short-term project work in small groups. At the advanced level, students work on long-term projects in teams while professors act more like coaches than sages. Some courses lean more towards engineering, with a focus on working hardware and prototype testing. Others are more innovation-based, with a focus on sound conceptualization and plans for commercialization. Both require a design process infused with creativity and interdisciplinary collaboration to be successful.

A selection of courses below highlights the diversity of academic offerings in which students engage in entrepreneurship, innovation, and/or design:

MENG 489/EENG 481: Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Capstone Design CoursesStudy of the design process, including concept generation, project management, teamwork, detail design, and communication skills. Student teams implement a real-world design project with hardware objectives that can be achieved in a term, and a problem definition that allows room for creative solutions.

ENAS 323: Creativity and New Product DevelopmentAn overview of the stages of product development in a competitive marketplace, with simulation of the process in class. A hands-on approach to creativity and the development process.

ENAS 118: Introduction to Engineering, Innovation, and DesignAn introduction to engineering, innovation, and design process, aimed at freshman. Principles of material selection, stoichiometry, modeling, data acquisition, sensors, rapid prototyping, and elementary microcontroller programming. Types of engineering and the roles engineers play in a wide range of organizations. Lectures are interspersed with practical exercises. Students work in small teams on an engineering/innovation project at the end of the term.

MGT 464: Startup Founders Practicum: The purpose of this course is to provide full-time SOM students with a mechanism to work on their startup ventures for credit, applying principles derived from their other coursework, particularly the integrated core curriculum. Students in this course articulate milestones for their ventures and work with faculty, staff, and mentors to meet those milestones. Generally, the course employs “lean” methodology. Admitted students are given working space in the Honest Tea Entrepreneurial Studies Suite of Yale SOM’s Evans Hall.

= Landscape Canvas =

The following [https://docs.google.com/a/nciia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnII1k7RbXJ-dEZncW94SjFkQ0ZkZTlnejBxbkhSaEE#gid=0 spreadsheet] outlines specific resources that Yale has for furthering entrepenuership and innovation on campus broken down into the following categories:

*Make it a priority;
*So, you want to learn more;
*You want to apply your knowledge to a specific project;
*You have effectively engaged in I&E;
*You have fine-tuned your understanding of I&E and reframed your approach to your education and career.

Each of the categories is necessary at different stages of a students path to entrepenuership. Yale has many resources, and this document's goal is to characterize Yale's landscape and identify our strengths and weaknesses. 

To view Yale's landscape canvas, please follow [https://docs.google.com/a/nciia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnII1k7RbXJ-dEZncW94SjFkQ0ZkZTlnejBxbkhSaEE#gid=0 this link]. 

= Related Links =

[[Yale University Student Priorities]]

[[Chinmay Jaju]]

[[Category:Universities]]

School:Yale University

2019-10-09T18:43:40Z

Smosbygraf: Updated from 2019

= Overview =

= '''[http://www.yale.edu/ <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yale University]has long been a hub for entrepreneurship and innovation in science, arts, policy, and business. As stated by Yale President Peter Salovey, one of [https://president.yale.edu/goals <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yale’s critical ambitions]is “to provide an unsurpassed campus learning environment that cultivates innovators, leaders, pioneers, creators, and entrepreneurs in all fields and for all sectors of society.”'''

'''In response to growing interest of students in entrepreneurship in the past decade, many Yale programs provide the tools necessary to facilitate research, innovation, and entrepreneurship. For example, Yale's engineering department continues to acquire cutting edge technology needed to make the campus a powerhouse in engineering innovation. Yale opened the [http://ceid.yale.edu/ <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID)]in 2012 and has continued to invest in its programming and sustainability. Yale School of Management is home to the [https://som.yale.edu/mission-objectives/interests-industries/entrepreneurship <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Program on Entrepreneurship], consisting of faculty, courses, and resources dedicated to students involved in early stage ventures. Providing space and resources to students to create whatever they can imagine is only one part of the equation for empowering innovation.'''

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== Entrepreneurship at Yale ==

= The entrepreneurship community at Yale and in broader New Haven is thriving and surprisingly full of resources and capital. The primary challenge for a student at Yale is navigating through an abundance of resources. Recently, Entrepreneurship at Yale has begun to tackle this challenge by developing a user-friendly resource database at [https://entrepreneurship.yale.edu/ <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://entrepreneurship.yale.edu/].

In 2017, Yale opened the [https://www.city.yale.edu/ <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (CITY)], to serve as a central resource for Yale students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation. Operating with the mission “to inspire students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to seek innovative ways to solve real-world problems,” Tsai CITY offers programs for undergraduate and graduate students to foster learning and connections that promote innovation. 

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== Entrepreneurship in Academic Classes ==

= Courses that support and facilitate innovation can be found in nearly all of Yale’s academic departments. 

Classes at the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID) take a fresh perspective on what classroom learning can be. At the introductory level, factual knowledge is supplemented with hands-on experimentation and short-term project work in small groups. At the advanced level, students work on long-term projects in teams while professors act more like coaches than sages. Some courses lean more towards engineering, with a focus on working hardware and prototype testing. Others are more innovation-based, with a focus on sound conceptualization and plans for commercialization. Both require a design process infused with creativity and interdisciplinary collaboration to be successful.

A selection of courses below highlights the diversity of academic offerings in which students engage in entrepreneurship, innovation, and/or design:

MENG 489/EENG 481: Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Capstone Design CoursesStudy of the design process, including concept generation, project management, teamwork, detail design, and communication skills. Student teams implement a real-world design project with hardware objectives that can be achieved in a term, and a problem definition that allows room for creative solutions.

ENAS 323: Creativity and New Product DevelopmentAn overview of the stages of product development in a competitive marketplace, with simulation of the process in class. A hands-on approach to creativity and the development process.

ENAS 118: Introduction to Engineering, Innovation, and DesignAn introduction to engineering, innovation, and design process, aimed at freshman. Principles of material selection, stoichiometry, modeling, data acquisition, sensors, rapid prototyping, and elementary microcontroller programming. Types of engineering and the roles engineers play in a wide range of organizations. Lectures are interspersed with practical exercises. Students work in small teams on an engineering/innovation project at the end of the term.

MGT 464: Startup Founders Practicum: The purpose of this course is to provide full-time SOM students with a mechanism to work on their startup ventures for credit, applying principles derived from their other coursework, particularly the integrated core curriculum. Students in this course articulate milestones for their ventures and work with faculty, staff, and mentors to meet those milestones. Generally, the course employs “lean” methodology. Admitted students are given working space in the Honest Tea Entrepreneurial Studies Suite of Yale SOM’s Evans Hall. =

= Landscape Canvas =

The following [https://docs.google.com/a/nciia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnII1k7RbXJ-dEZncW94SjFkQ0ZkZTlnejBxbkhSaEE#gid=0 spreadsheet] outlines specific resources that Yale has for furthering entrepenuership and innovation on campus broken down into the following categories:

*Make it a priority;
*So, you want to learn more;
*You want to apply your knowledge to a specific project;
*You have effectively engaged in I&E;
*You have fine-tuned your understanding of I&E and reframed your approach to your education and career.

Each of the categories is necessary at different stages of a students path to entrepenuership. Yale has many resources, and this document's goal is to characterize Yale's landscape and identify our strengths and weaknesses. 

To view Yale's landscape canvas, please follow [https://docs.google.com/a/nciia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnII1k7RbXJ-dEZncW94SjFkQ0ZkZTlnejBxbkhSaEE#gid=0 this link]. 

= Related Links =

[[Yale University Student Priorities]]

[[Chinmay Jaju]]

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