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Stanford Graduate School of Business (USA)
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PATH and the Safe Water Project: Empowering the Poor Through User-Centered Design
Stefanos Zenios, Lyn Denend, Tim ElliottCase SGSB-OIT107-EInformation Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementThis case provides an overview of the nonprofit organization PATH and its Safe Water Project—a five-year effort launched in late 2006 with $17 million in funding from the global development unit of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The purpose of the grant was to evaluate to what extent market-based approaches could help accelerate the widespread adoption and sustained use of household water treatment and safe storage products by low-income ...Starting at €8.20
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BrightSource: Challenges and Prospects for a Concentrated Solar Power Plant
Kennedy D; Schifrin DCase SGSB-P84-EEconomicsThe case presents the challenges confronting BrightSource, a company building a commercial-scale concentrated solar power plant in California in 2013: 1) environmentalists wanted to protect a threatened species at the site of the new plant, 2) competing solar power technology had become much cheaper in recent years, and 3) the company had been unable to get investors for its new thermal storage technology, which could be a game changer for the in...Starting at €8.20
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BrightSource: Challenges and Prospects for a Concentrated Solar Power Plant - Teaching note
Kennedy D; Schifrin DTeaching Note SGSB-P84TN-EEconomicsThe case presents the challenges confronting BrightSource, a company building a commercial-scale concentrated solar power plant in California in 2013: 1) environmentalists wanted to protect a threatened species at the site of the new plant, 2) competing solar power technology had become much cheaper in recent years, and 3) the company had been unable to get investors for its new thermal storage technology, which could be a game changer for the in...Starting at €0.00