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- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
of Energicity. “Modern life as we know it is impossible.” Poindexter has seen the struggles firsthand in rural Ghana, where her startup is working to bring solar power to communities where highly flammable kerosene and expensive... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
The Power of Business in the Energy Transition
from solar and wind farms. Project development of major transmission lines to handle alternative sources must intently focus on stakeholder alignment across public and private sectors to speed project delivery. Both speakers touched on... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
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... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Portrait Project
Joel Segre
It took a while for me to realize that I don't just want to feel accomplished. I want to feel alive. The images on my resumé are not the only ones in my dreams, and there is no reason to pretend they should be. In addition to solar cars,... View Details
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
highly local. This means that industrial commons can have a local character as well. As a result, companies located in some places have advantages over others by virtue of their access to the appropriate set of workers, engineers, managerial talent, suppliers, and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Climate Change Optimist
says. Green America’s sustainable supply chain networks provide peer learning, support, and connections to innovations. “I love the market-solution focus of what we do,” says Gravitz, noting that, in recent big utility buys, solar and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
Research and Analysis (CFRA) on companies in the solar industry with a focus on First Solar Inc. In 2009, CFRA was concerned that First Solar, like much of the solar industry,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2021
- News
Cold Calculations
the pole—can increase the amount of solar radiation the region deflects and slow global temperature rise. It’s an audacious idea,” says Steve Payne (MBA 1985), chair of the board of the 12-year-old nonprofit. Payne joined the project as a... View Details
- Career Coach
Craig Husa
assisted in securing over $8.0 billion in financing for utility-scale wind and solar facilities on six continents. Craig was also CEO of General Software (acquired by Phoenix Technologies Ltd, NASDAQ: PTEC), and Healia (acquired by... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977
Detroit, and even the student whose idea it was to put solar panels on the roof of Shad,” he notes. Cronin is the cofounder and managing partner of Weston Presidio, a private equity firm with offices on both US coasts and over $3 billion... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
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,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Smriti Jayaraman
arms of Silicon Valley, the Oz I was fated to call home. Here, I grew up watching the rise of tech giants and developed my own tenacious confidence in the power of technology. Today, video-messaging is not science fiction but a speck compared to the perimeters of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Power Plays
Grana (MBA 2009) and Paul Gibbs (MBA 2011); Founded 2011 Its HelioScope software simplifies design and sales for solar systems—an energy source whose US installations doubled between 2015 and 2016. The software produced by the San... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
a ways off. But as he watched innovations like battery storage and solar drive sharp increases in demand, that clean-energy future didn’t seem so far away any longer. “We are moving off fossil fuels at a clip faster than anybody, even... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
that seeming progress, the nonpartisan, nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) notes that wind and solar still only accounted for 2.9 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively, of total global power generation in 2014. How can we hasten the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
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... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities
coursework, Asamoah has served as a student consultant for the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she analyzed how Grand Rapids, Michigan, could increase workforce diversity. As a summer intern at a View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
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,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
depends on tidal currents just as wind farms depend on wind. Like wind and solar energy, tidal and other forms of marine power such as wave energy consume no fossil fuels and produce no carbon emissions, yet they are far more reliable... View Details