For UConn School of Business professor and researcher Ryan Coles, participatory economic development happens everywhere – even in the Himalayas of Nepal. Coles, undergraduate student Jonathan Heiden ’24 (CLAS), and the philanthropist and UConn alum Peter Werth III ’80 (CLAS) trekked to 17,000 feet earlier this year to bring modern research to a growing startup focused on a unique local product: yak cheese.