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- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
charities. The federal government contributed as well. SVA offered 12 percent return. Wind the clock forward eight years, and we met and exceeded our targets. We repaid the debt two years before expected, and there’s better quality early... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Research Brief: Weatherproofing Renewables
energy, and already 70 to 80 percent of its power comes from hydroelectric dams. But the volatility also means moments of scarcity, when renewable energy can’t be relied upon to keep the lights on. These fluctuations in the weather... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books How High Can You Soar? Eight Powers to Lift You to Your Full Potential by Jennifer Adams (OPM 51, 2018) Beyond Words Publishing What is holding you back from your biggest dreams? What steps can you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Photo courtesy Clean Line Energy Partners “We’re kind of like the express line,” says Michael Skelly (MBA 1991). That’s how he likes to explain Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners’ mission of developing high-voltage transmission lines that carry View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
across the East River from the Twin Towers. Hearing the news of the first plane strike on the radio, he stepped outside in time to see the second plane fly into the South Tower and within 90 minutes both structures collapse. It didn’t take long for the prevailing View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
follow. “The Long and Winding Road” In 1968, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce left Fairchild Semiconductor, where Andy Grove was employed as assistant head of R&D, to start their own company. Grove’s response when Moore told him the news?... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
international order. "We in the developing world have to go out and make our own way," he says. "We can't wait for doors to be opened for us — we must open them ourselves." Taking a Position of Power John W. Rowe New England Electric... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
street, even along the winding country road that leads to the Bush ranch, the “Western White House,” you see campaign signs touting the reelection of Democrat Chet Edwards (MBA ’81). He’s an eight-term congressman representing the 17th... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
photo by Brandon Thibodeaux Chris Riley (MBA 2008) didn’t have any experience with renewable power when he cofounded Guzman Energy in 2013. Riley, who had spent most his career as an officer in the US Navy and then as director of... View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer- Prize winning journalist and a New York Times best-selling author. His first book, The Power of Habit, focused the science of habit... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Provides high tech products and services for building energy efficiency Jeffrey Brown (MBA 1983) Summit Power Group, LLC. Seattle, Washington Developer of electric power projects Michael Cavallo (MBA 1978)... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
multivariate equation in real time, all the time, in a super intense situation. The kite has enough power to change your direction from going horizontal across the water at 20 miles an hour to 40 feet in the air in a tenth of a second.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
Why is the mission of ArtLifting so important? “We’re demonstrating how something as simple as optimism can change lives and create jobs. This is very powerful and very personal to me. My older brother has a rare metabolic disorder that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
hand, it creates all kinds of interesting opportunities for energy-intensive manufacturing. You will also see restructuring in the power generation sector, as low oil and natural gas prices reduce power... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) via a vote of the public. The RPS requires utilities to produce a specific percentage of power from renewable sources, and because of the ballot measure's popularity and success, the legislature... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
since people preferred Amazon’s free two-day shipping. Occasionally, scammers would return cheaper, used boots in Ranch Road boxes for a full refund, and Ford was anxious that an unwitting customer would wind up with the wrong product and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
Image by Digital Art/Corbis Related Links Listen to a podcast of Professors Rawi Abdelal, Forest Reinhardt, and Richard Vietor discussing the future of energy The catch-all “green” category covers a range of industries, from wind and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
beds in the West Wind dormitory, where Marietta broke ground on a $475,000 renovation project last fall, they’ll burn some calories learning traditional Appalachian folk dances from a teacher who attended day camp at Pine Mountain as a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leaning In to Gender Equity
and let opportunities for advancement pass them by—at least compared to their male peers. These observations are the real surprise thread winding through Lean In, and they have landed her in hot water with critics who prefer to pin most... View Details