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The Carbon Clinic

The Carbon Clinic is an exciting opportunity for students to gain expertise and experience in sought-after environmental reporting skills by working in teams to complete carbon footprint analyses for leading regional businesses, nonprofits and communities. As we face the urgency of the climate crisis, students will work with cross-disciplinary teams, using the UNH-hosted carbon footprint tool SIMAP to calculate an organization’s carbon footprint and help them meet their sustainability goals.

Industry Professional Bio: Allison Leach

Social Impact Startups ACCELERATOR

This course begins by the students choosing an existing social venture to build, launch, and grow. The class is taught from a practitioner’s point of view designed to be both collaborative and interactive. Students will be placed in teams that will explore the various phases of business development.

The first phase is building the business. This is the infrastructure and organizational part that is required to launch the business. Second, we execute the launch of the business as a fully functional established operation. We then explore the growth and expansion phases. The course concludes with the maturity phase that includes exit strategies such as acquisition, merger, or liquidation.

Industry Professional Bio: Larry Spera

Lawrence Spera is the managing partner of Road Angel Capital, LLC, adiverse investment company that specializes in real estate related activities as well as seed funding and early-stage financing to companies that focus on community impact through social innovation. Currently, he mentors and advises early-stage start-ups through the Keller Center’s eLab Accelerator program at Princeton University and social impact start-ups at North Carolina State University’s Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program.

Macro Strategies

Macro Strategies gives you insider access at the ways business economists analyze and interpret economic data on a day-to-day basis. Focusing on news and data releases, you will gain confidence in understanding what specific economic data means in the context of the economy, financial markets, and moreover, your own personal and/or professional investing lives.  

After understanding economic data,  teams will develop a business cycle model, learn how to apply that model, and gain insight on how that translates across various industries and asset classes (such as stock, bond, and commodity markets). Student teams then apply this knowledge to develop and deliver a 6 month forecast.  

Industry Professional Bio:

Alex Spitz: Macroeconomic Research Analyst on the asset allocation team at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. He’s held this position for about five years, primarily covering the economies of the US and China. Prior to Columbia Threadneedle, Alex worked as an economic consultant at Global Economics Group and as a senior research assistant at the Federal Reserve Board.

10 seats reserved for ECON Majors during priority registration