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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
thatched-roof hut. GiveDirectly payments allowed him to buy building materials and livestock. The family now sleeps under an iron roof fitted with a solar panel and raises goats and cows. “My proudest achievement is that I now own several...
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April White
- 19 Nov 2014
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The Power of Yes
housing, and safe drinking water. (One investment example includes d.light design, a company that provides solar lighting solutions to replace kerosene lanterns, which are more costly, dangerous, and unhealthy.) “Understanding the full...
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Julia Hanna
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
the sources of energy on which civilization depends have always changed as technology advances. Now renewables are overtaking fossil fuels, with wind and solar energy becoming cheaper and more competitive every year. Growth in renewable...
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- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
resilient, more competitive energy system in the future is something we should pursue. And you look at the speeds at which the new technologies of our energy system are now becoming a reality, it is nothing short of the next Industrial Revolution. The cost of View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
said yes and immediately asked to also build an energy practice. “Oil prices were soaring, silicon prices were fluctuating, and solar and wind were huge topics at that time. I saw that as an opportunity,” she notes. “So I quickly got...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 1998
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A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
combines academic and experiential learning and involves students in activities as diverse as constructing solar panels, producing maple syrup, and delivering emergency medical care in search-and-rescue situations. "Our educational goal,"...
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Deborah Blagg
- 17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
expected film to be in the cards. “Originally, I had planned on going to work for a solar startup, but I decided to pause the startup search after watching Chasing Ice, a visually compelling and beautiful documentary on the melting of...
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- 19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green
calling for using city investments in energy efficiency to generate savings that would be reinvested in solar power. Inspired by their success, Dawe took an 80 percent pay cut and moved to Colorado to work on green-power initiatives...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Sun Dress
Barrow: Offering a line of clothing that provides protection from the downside of solar energy. A native of sun-splashed Australia who now resides in Minneapolis, John Barrow (MBA 1989) has a fashion tip for Americans: cover up, mates....
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- 01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Winslow Homer: American Passage By William R. Cross (MBA 1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux In 1860, at the age of 24, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sold Harper’s Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into boxwood blocks and transferred...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop
platform, delivering qualified workers in 24 hours. Alumna: Vera Makarov, MBA 2010 Region: Latin America FreeFlow Medical Devices LLC: Maker of medical devices that solve clotting, infection, and clogging issues. Alumnus: Andrew Jones, MBA 1997 Region: Mid-Atlantic US...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
firms explore new areas of opportunity, such as nanotechnology, fuel cells, solar power, clean technology, and even entertainment. “Each partner is stretched to look at more areas and to constantly examine new opportunities,” notes...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
more balanced energy menu. After examining the pros and cons of various energy sources, such as coal, nuclear, natural gas, wind, and solar, the book concludes that conservation (principally through energy efficiency) and solar energy...
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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
achieve net-zero-energy demand by pairing ultra-low energy use with solar panels for energy production. But Harper’s home goes even further than that select group—achieving net-positive-energy production—because the house uses so little...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Green Day
low-emissivity insulated glass, dynamic glass changes tint on demand — so you can “instruct” it to block or allow solar heat and light based on outside conditions. Mulpuri’s delight in this technology makes perfect sense. He’s a materials...
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- 17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
to promote new behaviors and monitor symptoms. They man quarantine control points 24/7 and attend to patients that need to be isolated at village health stations. Many operate without light at night and lose communications when they cannot charge their phones. HSSI is...
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Margie Kelley
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of Einstein's elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much? Grounded in real history—and inspired by the solar eclipse of 1914—A Bend...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
lost not only its ability to develop and manufacture high-tech products like televisions, memory chips, and laptops, but also the expertise to produce emerging “hot products” such as the Kindle e-reader, high-end servers, solar panels,...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Bright Future for Green Business
panelists were collectively bullish on solar energy, electric drive technology that powers hybrid and electric cars, and biofuels (including ethanol). By contrast, they were cautiously optimistic about clean coal, nuclear power, and...
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- 02 Jan 2020
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Empowering Rural Communities
purely economic perspective—turning off the carbon-based energy production and building wind farms and solar farms can save people money,” he explains. But he saw that, in many of those places, the transition wasn’t happening. Often,...
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