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  If you’re looking for reassurance that today’s energy problems are being considered by the best and the brightest our generation has to offer, look no further than the 117 EDF Climate Corps Fellows deployed across the country this summer. The fellowship program recruits and trains top graduate students, traditionally from MBA and engineering programs, …

Published in: Santa Cruz Sentinel Business Alumnus Ned LeBlond (C15) enters the startup world as a social entrepreneur with his new venture EquityStone (@EquityStone). A social non-profit public-private partnership connecting homeowners to ideal renters to help pay their mortgages. Ned is tackling the affordable housing shortage by meeting the needs of homeowners struggling to pay their …

Published in CSR News   Renewable Choice Energy announced today that Erin Decker (C10) has joined their team as a Senior Director of Business Development to oversee their growing Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) division. Previously, Erin was at Salesforce who lead their global sustainability team by setting a 100% renewable energy commitment and strategy. Decker earned her …

During a short visit to Boulder, CO for a friend’s wedding, I had the opportunity to connect with alumnus Scott Bright (C17) – a.k.a. ‘ScottieB‘- and learn about how Presidio Graduate School prepared him for his dream job. Alumnus: Scott Bright (aka ScottieB) C17 Location: Boulder, CO Company: Mondo Robot – Creative Digital Agency Title: Digital Strategist …

 This post was originally published on lunarmobiscuit.com on August 25, 2015. In the last post, I talked about how revenue-based investments are a lower cost of capital than traditional equity.  In this post, as promised, I’ll explain how they also better align the incentives of an investor with the entrepreneur. To start with, always remember …

Smart. Successful. Professional. Ambitious. Confident. I associate these words with management professionals and my classmates at Presidio Graduate School (PGS). Genuine. Selfless. Positive. Passionate. Dedicated. These characteristics may not always be the first ones used to describe business people, but these words clearly described my fellow classmates at PGS. Presidio offers a truly unique management …

The driving forces of Summer Meyer’s life can be summed up by two words:  love and adventure. If you know Summer (you might have met her as Karin, her former name), you know that both shine through unmistakably in her life. She exudes an appreciation for challenges, nature, community, people, and self. Together with her …

I was on the night train to Vancouver when I awoke somewhere—probably northern California but I couldn’t say for sure. There were no signs or cities or other manmade artifacts to give clue to my whereabouts, just railroad ties along some high alpine plain. The sun had just come up and was reflecting off the …

Why Brocade’s Senior Director of Corporate Affairs Came to PGS When making decisions about graduate school, a mentor had this sage advice, “If you’re going to spend tens of thousands of dollars and consume two years—or more, as it would happen—of your life with time away from your family, wouldn’t you want to at least …

Over the last year, I have watched an idea that was hatched over pizza and a glass of wine with a friend turn into a thriving business. It has been one of the most challenging years of my life, but also one of the most rewarding, culminating in Conscious Company Magazine—the first nationally distributed, print …