business + design + social + environment
enXco is committed – in design, development, construction, operations and management – to create the most efficient renewable energy projects possible.In the more than twenty years since enXco was established in 1987, our focus on renewable energy has made us an industry leader in wind project development, and a premier provider of operation and maintenance [...]
HONG KONG — Foreign companies doing business in China are increasingly feeling as if the deck is stacked against them. Workers pour liquid into sealed drums at a yellow phosphorus factory in Yunnan Province, China. China has filed more than a dozen trade cases to limit imports, imposed a series of “buy Chinese” measures and [...]
An initiative of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership focused on Indiana’s clean technology opportunity. Clean technologies, or ‘cleantech’ is the collection of industries that bring energy innovations to consumers – from putting hybrid and plug-in electric vehicles on our highways to building the ‘smart grid’ and other advances that make renewable energy a realistic option [...]
Manufacturing is evolving – it's high-tech, innovative, driven by explosive growth in productivity. In Indiana, we're on the cutting-edge of these trends. And here at the Crossroads of America, we know how to get our goods quickly and efficiently into the hands of customers across the nation and around the world. Now Indiana has another [...]
This coming month we are running a public war game on The Battle for China’s Smart Grid. We have very quickly seen that this is more than a strategic fight of Western companies for a share of a China mega-infrastructure project. It will likely demonstrate how Western companies can succeed in a very fluid China market – where [...]
From a speech given at the Yale Entrepreneurial Innovation Summit. May 1st 2010. Test your passions first Develop good work skills early Constantly refine what your passions are No matter what, new ideas matter You can’t be afraid to fail Work hard Notes: 1. Test your Passions First do something that excites you take note [...]
Business schools are positioned on increasingly unsteady—and unpopular—ground. MBA enrollments fluctuate or decline; recruiters voice skepticism about the value of newly-minted MBA degrees; and deans, faculty, students, executives, and a concerned public wonder what business schools can or should do to train knowledgeable, principled, and skilled leaders.Against this backdrop of problems, business schools are poised [...]
When I began the Most Innovative Companies annual survey with BCG’s James Andrew, nearly all the top 50 companies were American. This year, more than half of the most innovative companies in the world came from Asia and Europe. Despite all hoopla and blah-blah about innovation among CEOs in the US, the actual building of [...]
Growing out of the School’s 30 year tradition of exploring the complex relationships among the public, private and non-profit sectors, SOM’s Program on Social Enterprise has been exploring the intersections between development finance and sustainable energy, both within the US and in developing countries. In particular, we want to examine whether the intentional linking of [...]
GENERAL ELECTRIC’S health-care laboratory in Bangalore contains some of the company’s most sophisticated products—from giant body scanners that can accommodate the bulkiest American football players to state-of-the-art intensive-care units that can nurse the tiniest premature babies. But the device that has captured the heart of the centre’s boss, Ashish Shah, is much less fancy: a [...]