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...trying to bring money to a company, but trying to help an organization fulfill...its non-profit mission,” something he hopes the consulting with the Business School will help WHRB do. Last summer, Stona worked as a summer fellow at New Sector Alliance, a Boston-based company that pairs Business School students and undergraduates with professional consultants on non-profit work, and found the process extremely rewarding. He is now applying for consulting positions for next year. “It got me more excited about working with the consultants,” he says...
...intelligence suggests that there is credible information about an attack at a given location or an industry sector, then the department will consider the merits of elevating the threat level,” he says...
...rent-seeker or free-loader, could be asking. Where do you draw the line between a sustainable farm and an unsustainable one? It's a judgment that has been made on entire industries in the past, when governments removed or cut the tariffs that protected the manufacturing sector. Why prop up farmers who are bad managers or whose poor practices on unproductive land are hurting the environment? The signals drought policy sends to good farmers are certainly mixed. And how come a 50-year-old waterside worker or factory machinist is obliged to re-train or relocate to an area...
...follow 47 publicly traded clean-energy stocks. Institutional investors are finally catching on, too. Investment banks, hedge funds and state pension funds like CalPERS (the California Public Employees' Retirement System), which has put $700 million toward renewable energy technologies, have helped make clean energy tech's fastest-growing sector...
...Khosla applauds the momentum. "The only place we will see innovative solutions come from is the private sector," he says. "And the only way we will see them funded is by Wall Street. The government doesn't have enough money." That may be true. But Khosla, a self-described "free marketeer" and "fiscal Republican" opposed to subsidies, is co-chair and a contributor to Proposition 87, a statewide initiative that would impose a tax on oil companies for drilling in California - and use the $4 billion raised over 10 years to fund the development of "cleaner" and "cheaper" energy. "Proposition...