The SME Program held its Eighth Working Group meeting at the Sloan School of Management at MIT on September 29, 2016, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

On September 19th, Elizabeth Koshy, SME Program Manager, participated in a panel discussion on "Gender and Sustainable Development” at International Conference on Sustainable Development 2017, held at Columbia University in New York.

The SME Program held its Seventh Working Group meeting at the Yale School of Management on October 21, 2016 in New Haven, Connecticut.The meeting convened SME Program affiliates to discuss innovative research in the SME space.  Presenters included: Opening Remarks Dean Karlan, Yale University Lucia Sánchez, Innovations for Poverty Action       Can Government Intervention Make Firms More Investment-Ready? A Randomized Experiment in the Western Balkans David McKenzie, World Bank The Effects of Business Accelerators on Venture Performance: Evidence from Start-Up Chile Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, London School of Economics     The drivers of post-entry growth: TFPQ vs.