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When Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher Jr. FES ’04 enrolled in Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, he had what the school’s Director of Development Eugenie Gentry called “an unusual profile” for a graduate student.
He was 38 and already had an established career as the chairman of the Wall Street firm Fletcher Asset Management, which he founded. But his extensive experience investing in environmentally conscious start-up companies drew him to the school’s one-year midcareer master’s degree program.
Fletcher became even more unusual when, just before his graduation,...
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