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Portfolio - Fall 2009

Portfolio Fall 09 Mini

 

New Digital Format
You can now access the current edition of Portfolio online with Zmags’ featuring next generation page-turn technology. Your online reading experience is very similar to reading a magazine, but enriched with engaging content such as video. The look and feel of the content is preserved and the intuitive navigation ensures ease of use.

We hope that however you choose to read
Portfolio, in hard copy or online, you find the experience informative, engaging and thought-provoking.

Click here to view the online edition!

Web Extras 

Clean AND Green: Renewable Energy Efforts Turn a Profit for Safeway
Q and A with Joe Pettus including what engineering teaches you (versus what business school teaches you) and where California should have put its mountains.

Combatting Poverty Through Business
Leeds alum Brian Lewandowski shares memories from volunteering with the Peace Corps in the Caribbean island of St. Vincent. Along with teaching business and commerce, he also learned indelible lessons about writing business plans and taking risks.

Energy Efficiency Squared
In October 2008, Ghirardelli Square revamped its efforts to make a stand on going green. They reached out to Environmental Building Strategies for a waste reduction plan.

Interns with Energy: MBA Students Join NREL’s Forces
Read tips on how these MBAs scored internships at NREL and how to pursue a business career in renewable energy.

Thought and grit: G. Chris Andersen embraces the risk of business
From fruit bowls to bust to breaking even: G. Chris Andersen shares his first foray into
business.

Tough Stuff:  Social Enterprise Brings Solar Energy to Developing Countries
Learn about how buyers of Tough Stuff products earn their money back in 10 weeks, and how each Solar Village Entrepreneur eliminates the waste of over 9,600 batteries per year.

Winds of Change: Clean Power and Business Sense Converge at Vestas
Learn more more about the grit and glamour of the wind industry, including
recollections of an encounter with “What was her name? She won the
Oscar® for Monster?” and “the guy who was in Titanic.”