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 Research News on Oct 13th, 2009
The financial impact of regulating coal-fired power plants that produce carbon dioxide emissions under a cap-and-trade system will be much less than previously projected according to research by Stanford Business School Professor Stefan Reichelstein and doctoral student Ozge Islegen.
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — There’s good news for supporters of the Waxman-Markey climate bill from [...]
Posted in QOTD on Oct 6th, 2009
“The promise of biomimicry is if we can get people to appreciate nature, not just aesthetically … to appreciate the fact that nature is a library of design solutions, then we may be able to bring more people to the conservation table.”
– According to Prof. Chip Heath there’s no better R&D Lab for industry to [...]
Posted in News on Oct 1st, 2009
New chemical sensor chips made with carbon nanotubes could enable rapid, low-cost detection of TNT and poison in rivers, reservoirs.
A sensitive new Stanford-developed disposable chip detects low concentrations of the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT) and a close chemical cousin of the dreaded toxic nerve agent sarin in water samples. The research appears online this week in [...]
Posted in Research News on Sep 26th, 2009
Some types of regulations governing disposal of electronic waste can reduce the world’s mountains of devices waiting to be recycled, and also slow the rate of new product introductions says Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Erica Plambeck.
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—Americans buy new cell phones every 18 months, Europeans buy [...]
Posted in News on Sep 20th, 2009
Farm-raised seafood now account for 50 percent of the fish consumed globally, according to a new report. Yet the success of aquaculture is putting a significant strain on marine resources by consuming large amounts of wild fish harvested from the sea to feed the farm-raised varieties.
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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 Feature, Stanford Business magazine on Sep 15th, 2009
By Margaret Steen
During his time at Stanford, David Mount, MBA/MS ’08, (at left) spent his share of hours in Business School classes learning how to run a business. But he also tested the efficiency of solar panels and used light meters to measure the efficiency of compact fluorescent vs. incandescent lights.
“I sat in the computer [...]
Posted in Feature, Stanford Business magazine on Sep 15th, 2009
By Margaret Steen
Everyone takes a free green grocery bag, but how do you lure stressed-out consumers and businesses to walk the green walk more consistently? Marketing students look for levers of change
One day last year, marketing Professor Baba Shiv stood outside a Trader Joe’s near Stanford for more than an hour approaching shoppers who were [...]
Posted in Research News, Stanford Business magazine on Aug 30th, 2009
Everyone takes a free green grocery bag, but how do you lure stressed-out consumers and businesses to walk the green walk more consistently? Marketing students look for levers of change
ONE DAY LAST YEAR, marketing Professor Baba Shiv stood outside a Trader Joe’s near Stanford for more than an hour approaching shoppers who were leaving the store with [...]
