Andrew Hargadon

UC Davis Graduate School of Management Team Wins Energy Track at Hult Global Case Challenge Regional in San Francisco

Congratulations to our GSM students for winning the Energy Track at the Hult Global Case Challenge Regionals in San Francisco. They won with their BHAWG solution to help SolarAid get off-grid solar power and light to 1 million rural African households by the end 2013.

The cost of networks

Not all networks are created equal. And I'll take this moment to point out this more challenging aspect of innovation in general, and sustainable innovation in particular, having just ran across yet one more glaring example. Everyone, myself included, talks about the critical role of networks in the innovation process. We rarely talk about how those same networks go bad.

A conversation on Dot Earth around talking about, versus building, new companies

I had a recent conversation, continuing across two posts, in Andy Revkin's Dot Earth blog earlier this week. The first was on a cool new company, Ecovative Design, that came out of RPI's Inventor's Studio and an interview of Eben Bayer, the CEO and co-founder: “A Young Green Innovator Turning Fungi into Jobs Muses on the Path to Breakthroughs” with some of my comments towards the end. The second is a Your Dot, an additional comment I posted on "The Innovator’s Challenge: Moving From Idea Networks to Action Networks" to elaborate on the challenges of building networks that do things...

Reid Hoffman on social networks

Reid Hoffman, Founder of LinkedIn wrote a wonderful article on The real way to build a social network that is a must read for anyone who recognizes the value of networks for innovation.

Sustainability and corporate governance

How can companies make the right decisions—for their communities, for their people, and for the environment—when governance laws force a (relatively) narrow focus on maximizing shareholder value?

The (long-time) coming revolution in sustainability

A series of recent articles on fighting climate change have called for “breaking every rule in the free market playbook” (e.g., Another year goes by, Capitalism vs. the Climate). Do we really have to break the system, or can sustainable practices move from the fringe to business-as-usual?