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By Mira Inbar, Mira Inbar Consulting, Haas MBA ’09 This post originally appeared on CleanTechnica. When Tesla announced last year that it was going to build battery swapping stations, many journalists and industry insiders harkened back to the legacy of Better Place, the Israeli startup that built its business model around battery swapping stations. Better Place lost…
By Mira Inbar, Mira Inbar Consulting, Haas MBA ’09 This post originally appeared on Greenbiz.com Leaders of the sharing economy are disrupting traditional industries such as transportation and hospitality, but what if they played an equally disruptive role in reducing our consumption of natural resources such as water and gas? Unlocking access to underused resources is the…
By Mira Inbar, Mira Inbar Consulting, Haas MBA ’09 This post originally appeared on VentureBeat.com Tesla rocked the automotive world last month with news that it plans to build a 5 GW lithium ion battery plant in the United States. That’s huge: 5 GW is equivalent to all of the…
By Yonathan Shiran, MBA ’14 Yonathan helped to develop, and then enrolled in, a new CRB course on global mega-trends for MBAs; here, he writes about the experience of building the course and the great need for it in management education. Most business courses take the perspective of optimizing shareholder…
By Deborah Fleischer, CRB Communications Consultant, and Amy Dinh, CRB Program Manager CRB just launched a new crowdfunding campaign to support our student-run Haas Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Fund. Learn more and donate here. We had the opportunity to chat with Vivienne Hsu (MBA ’01) about why she donated to…