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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
social change campaigns to the rest, Crutchfield reveals powerful lessons for change-makers who seek to affect society and the planet for the better. Corporate Diversification: Opportunities Created by the Winds of Change by Brooks Fenno... 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
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
facility across the road. Noxious fumes emanated from a second-floor manufacturing business and drifted into iTrust’s third-floor offices, reached only by walking up a winding staircase, framed by walls with peeling paint and cobwebs.... 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
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Kilimanjaro
final climb in a misty rain. The temperature was 5 degrees; the winds were blowing at 30 miles per hour. By this point they all knew each other quite well. Most of the chocolate had already been consumed. Canadian Graeme Johnson (MBA ’95)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
magnate is as filled with plot twists as a good adventure novel. Engineer to Entrepreneur Rogers took a winding road to entrepreneurship. A self-described “geeky” kid, he graduated with an engineering degree from the University of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
shocks. He is currently conducting a study of wind power worldwide. “I’ve been involved in climate-change issues since the early 1980s,” Vietor says. “It’s very discouraging the United States has done so little as a nation despite decades... 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
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
he thinks it’s his ticket out of small-town captivity. What he lacks in connections and Beltway polish, he makes up in smarts, and he soon finds a friend and mentor in fellow staffer Ariel Lancaster. That is, until she winds up dead. As... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
companies out there in the world, whether or not they’re in the diamond industry.” For Aether, that means vertical integration, including the production of on-site wind and solar energy. And it means finding responsible partners such as... View Details
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
if he got lucky, maybe there was a gust of wind that stopped them, maybe things weren't as injured as they thought it was when it was in the air. He will tell you that the only decision he made that he is certain of is that he decided to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
split the difference. Several other states subsequently adopted similar incentive programs. Currently, the fourth version of "NEESPLAN," the company's resource management plan, includes a wide array of conservation projects, including using renewable energy sources... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
rules—is reaching out through various channels and learning about opportunities before they’re even announced. The truth is that many of those opportunities may never be advertised because they wind up being assigned behind closed doors.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
the much-neglected soil back to life through rotational grazing. “Nutrients cycle from the grass through our cows and sheep, and wind up back in the soil,” explains Reade. The global market for organic food and drink increased to $23... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
journey, developed trench foot from being constantly wet, as the 19-person crew battled 120-mph wind gusts and 35-foot waves. “There was a lot of problem-solving along the way and great effort to stay on the critical path needed to... View Details
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
business plans before a panel of leading venture capitalists. Taking top prize was Wind & Rain R&D, a social enterprise entry that aims to foster urban development by facilitating home ownership among low-income renters. After a black-tie... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Elaine will head to the West Indies on a two-year mission with the Mormon Church, leaving their business in the hands of a partner and their 3,000-square-foot organic garden (with its “baseball bat–sized zucchini”) to lie fallow until they return. Steichen Following... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
(Routledge) This textbook examines the key energy sources—both fossil fuels and renewables, including oil, coal, solar, and wind power—and summarizes how the current economics of energy evolved. Later chapters explore issues concerning... View Details