Impact & Innovation
Join the conversation as social entrepreneurs from around the world come to Yale SOM to share the challenges they are grappling with and the insights they are gaining in the field. From rural India and Kenya to the inner cities of the U.S., from the environment to nutrition to maternal child health, this series cuts across sectors to examine the convergence of business and society. Take a peek inside the classroom of Dr. Teresa Chahine as she examines the latest trends and pitfalls in social innovation, funding, and impact.
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Episodes
- PodcastSeason 8Episode 1Duration 34:27
Reimagining the U.S. healthcare system
Peter Hagan is the Digital Health Director at Commonwealth Care Alliance, and former team member at Iora Health. Iora was a start up that created a new model for value-based care, to improve health outcomes and lower costs. Ten years after launching, it was acquired by One Medical, a primary care provider, which was later acquired by Amazon. Peter initially started out as a patient at one of Iora's first pilot sites, and later became a health coach, playing a critical role in Iora's team-based care model. His third role before leaving Iora to pursue his MPH was to work on the backend of Iora's digital health products, which included a patient-friendly electronic health record system that allowed each patient and their care team to seamlessly coordinate care. In this episode, Pete and I discuss the challenge of shifting from the dominant fee-for-service care model in the U.S., to the value-based care model which focuses on improving people's health rather than profiting from their care needs. Rather than waiting and hoping for existing players to make these changes, could it be the new entrants into the field that disrupt and transform it?
- PodcastSeason 7Episode 5Duration 30:04
Asking Tough Questions
Sheena Strawter-Anthony is the Director of Impact Investing Strategy at William Casper Graustein Memorial Fund here in New Haven. She shares their efforts to manage their endowment in a way that is in line with their mission. Doing so requires them to ask tough questions about where their money is going to generate wealth that they then invest in the community. Is it possible to manage wealth in a way that can also create positive social and environmental benefits? Who is participating and who is benefiting? These are some of the tough questions we discuss in this episode.
- PodcastSeason 7Episode 4Duration 26:09
Business for Society
I reflect with this semester's teaching fellows, Lily Engbith and Victoria Bush, on how they apply social innovation principles in the for-profit world. Their roles at Connecticut Innovations (a state owned and run VC fund) and Inbox Health (a local medical billing startup) are driven by their values and vision for collective well-being. Business & society don't have to be two separate things. Business can be one of many tools, if applied with the mindset described in this episode, to help achieve societal well-being for all.
- PodcastSeason 7Episode 3Duration 27:54
Playing in the Pocket
Ony Obiocha, Executive Director of CTNext, reflects on his team's work in building an innovation ecosystem for the state of Connecticut. It's about who you include and invest in, how they play together, and what kind of place you're creating for them to live and thrive in.
- PodcastSeason 7Episode 2Duration 35:43
Education as Driver of Economic Development
Patricia Melton, President of New Haven Promise, reflects on the various roles she has played in strengthening the education system. She discusses the interconnectedness of the health and education systems, and the importance of clarifying your value proposition as a social change maker.
- PodcastSeason 7Episode 1Duration 28:37
Building Community Wealth and Power
Erik Clemons returns to share his work as founding CEO of ConnCorp, a sister organization of ConnCAT which has acquired and is revitalizing commercial properties in underinvested neighborhoods in New Haven. Their ultimate goal is to catalyze and support a place-based impact investing ecosystem in the city.
- PodcastSeason 6Episode 5Duration 28:40
Meanings and Pathways to CEO
Song Kim, co-founder and CEO of KovaDx, empowers patients with sickle cell disease and other rare blood disorders, while changing our perceptions of what it means to be a CEO and the many paths to entrepreneurship.
- PodcastSeason 6Episode 4Duration 23:50
Extrapreneurship and Systems Thinking
Brita Roy, Multiple Principal Investigator of TRUE-HAVEN, innovates within and across the boundaries of existing institutions to tackle gun violence in New Haven.
- PodcastSeason 6Episode 3Duration 24:03
Design Justice
Ashlee Wisdom, Founder and CEO of Health in Her Hue, navigates venture capital and the tech start up world, to provide culturally relevant health care for Black women.
- PodcastSeason 6Episode 2Duration 19:02
Social Entrepreneurs Providing Primary Health Care
Lutfi Lokman, founder of Hospitals Beyond Boundaries, mobilizes resources for access to health care among the Cham population in Cambodia.