ideas42 Information Session

Event Details
Want a career that makes a social impact? Come learn about how we're applying insights from behavioral science to tackle some of the world's most difficult social problems.

ideas42 Information Session
Please join the ideas42 team on Wednesday, October 5th from 5:00-6:30pm in the University Career Center to learn about our full-time Associate and Senior Associate opportunities for upcoming graduates at both the undergrad and graduate levels. All majors are welcome, and light refreshments will be served.

Who We Are
ideas42 is a unique social enterprise bringing together highly creative practitioners, industry leaders, and policy experts with world-renowned economists and psychologists from top-tier universities. Our mission is to apply our expertise in behavioral economics to invent fresh solutions to the world’s toughest social problems with the goal of improving tens of millions of lives.

What We Do
ideas42 is a rapidly growing organization with a team of 60 people working on more than 100 projects in the U.S. and abroad. We apply our expertise to a range of domains, including consumer finance, poverty alleviation and economic opportunity, health, higher education, and environmental conservation. Our work begins with re-conceptualizing problems, designing new solutions and testing them in the field, then finally scaling them up to reach millions of people. We partner with large companies to create products that will do social good. We collaborate with other cutting-edge non-profits to incubate game-changing ideas. We work with governments to re-imagine policy and revamp programs to make them more effective. We also teach practitioners how to use behavioral economics for innovation.

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For additional information about the event, contact Michael Maiden at mmaiden@umd.edu.