Posted in News on Nov 18th, 2009
Q&A with Assistant Professor Michael Wara (JD, ‘06) and Deputy Secretary of the Interior David J. Hayes (JD, ‘78) regarding the new administration’s Interior Department. From Stanford Lawyer magazine.
Q: With regard to striking a balance, what do you think the right approach is for resource energy extraction and natural resource protection?
A: You start [...]
Posted in Alumni in the News, QOTD on Sep 17th, 2009
“Many of the major companies in the Gulf continue to be government-owned despite a few successful privatization initiatives. Governments would do well to open more of their prized assets to private capital in order to benefit from enhanced accountability and efficiency that comes with private sector involvement.”
– Fawzi Jumean, MBA ‘05, executive vice president for [...]
Posted in Feature, Stanford Business magazine on Sep 15th, 2009
Cars and trucks powered by domestic electricity rather than imported oil is an exciting but daunting vision. The first step could be retrofitting 1 million vehicles to run on electricity as well as gas, say Stanford Business School Professor Robert A. Burgelman and Lecturer Andrew S. Grove, former chairman of Intel. They describe this as [...]
Posted in Knowledgebase on Aug 29th, 2009
What can we expect as the world’s economy emerges from its most serious downturn in almost a century? Economist A. Michael Spence forsees a “new normal,” with slower growth, a less risky and more stable core financial system, and challenges in areas such as energy, climate, and demographic imbalance.
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Posted in News on Jul 27th, 2009
Storing carbon dioxide in coal beds could reduce atmospheric CO2 and free up large reservoirs of natural gas, Stanford researchers say.
Stanford University News, July 13, 2009
Video: Lecture on Carbon Sequestration (YouTube)
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Posted in QOTD on Jul 6th, 2009
“For the first time in history, science has shown humans altering the destiny of our planet in a meaningful way,” he said. “We have to try to enlist some of the very best intellectual horsepower to deal with this.”
—Secretary of Energy Steven Chu urged a crowd of more than 700 at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory [...]
Posted in Feature, Stanford Business magazine on Jun 15th, 2009
Stanford Graduate School of Business —The world cannot simply conserve its way out of the current environmental and energy crises, warned venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. Instead it must create technology alternatives that are both affordable and widely accepted by consumers across the globe.
Khosla, MBA ’80, hammered that message home to more than 275 [...]
Posted in Feature, Stanford Business magazine on Nov 15th, 2008
By Bill Snyder
Start in Santa Barbara, Ca., and drive north along the twisty coastal highway to San Luis Obispo. Turn right and head east to the hot, grassy Carrizo Plain an hour or so away. In the span of an afternoon’s drive you’d see three very different visions of the world’s energy future: off-shore drilling [...]
Posted in Knowledgebase, News on Nov 12th, 2008
Zero emission buildings and hybrid vehicles, have broad appeal, but any climate change solution must first make economic sense in order to truly be effective venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, MBA ’80, told a Business School audience during the School’s 2008 von Gugelberg Memorial Lecture.
Posted in Research News on Jun 15th, 2008
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Entertainers, politicians, and public speakers instinctively know that a good act is tough to follow. New research from Stanford Graduate School of Business reveals that the same is true for anything designed to persuade—be it a TV ad, public service announcement, speech, or information campaign. It’s not just the content that’s [...]
