Tanvi Nibhanupudi ’23, Economics

Tanvi Nibhanupudi ’23

Major

Economics

Project Title

Corporate Climates

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Certificate(s): Journalism, Finance

I investigated individual and institutional climate change awareness and action through surveys of individual perspectives on COVID-19 and climate change, as well as data on financial institutions’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance. Our goal was to produce a behaviorally informed understanding of the cognitive and social mechanisms that influence personal and institutional action on COVID-19 and climate change. These analyses will help inform stronger corporate and government policies by providing greater knowledge of the ways in which individuals, institutions and government bodies connect and interact to effect change. In these projects, I used the programming language R to compile data and extract trends for global financial actors across financial and ESG metrics, as well as examine the influence of perceptions of government COVID-19 and climate change action on personal action and trust in institutions. Overall, this experience gave me invaluable skills in cleaning and analyzing data sets that have real-world impact and inspired me to continue this work by adopting a more data-driven and behavioral focus in my economics concentration. This internship was an incredible opportunity for me to shape my own research, and I hope to continue this in my future independent work.

*  This internship is connected to the HMEI Urban Challenge project, “Norm Dynamics as Agents of Urban Social Change and Environmental Sustainability: Investigating Cross-Cultural Differences and Longevity of Intervention.”