Environment Energy
John Browne spent about 40 years at BP, 12 of them as its CEO, before leaving the company in 2007. He is now the managing director of Riverstone Holdings and chairman of Cuadrilla Resources, a gas and oil exploration company that has played a leading role in the drilling and/or hydraulic...
Top solar-industry leaders believe their sector, now in flux, is likely to consolidate around a handful of global companies, and that which countries win and lose will depend on how the consolidation plays out, according to a report from Stanford University’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy...
For many research projects the first step is often getting funding, typically from academic grant-making organizations. But applying can be time consuming, funding can be slow to materialize, and the process is not always as flexible as a scholar might want.
So when a group of economists wanted to...
If one city epitomizes China’s role as cheap manufacturer for the world, it’s Wuxi, a sprawling metropolis of more than 4.5 million people a short bullet-train ride northwest of Shanghai. Out beyond the old town, with its ancient temples and canals, much of modern Wuxi is a massive industrial park...
Can a macho workplace shed its machismo? It happened on an oil rig, that most macho of work environments, say researchers who found that crew members on an offshore platform toned down their bluster and macho as they concentrated on a company program to improve workplace safety.
The scholars —...
"Allowing firms to focus on the risks they are in business to take, while hedging against risks that they are not in business to take, can add value."
Francisco Pérez-GonzálezAssistant Professor of finance, Stanford GSB
Financial derivatives have been in the doghouse of public opinion ever...
Not too many years ago, homeowners that wanted to go solar faced a daunting set of obstacles: $30,000 or more to buy the equipment, countless hours negotiating a labyrinth of state and local bureaucracies, $2,500 for permits and unknown maintenance costs. Enter solar-as-a-service, sold to...