Press Release

August 5 , 2008

Contact: Allan Friedman
Phone: 773.702.9232
Email: allan.friedman@ChicagoGSB.edu

Contact: Barbara Backe
Phone: 773.702.4282
Email: barbara.backe@ChicagoGSB.edu

Chicago GSB introduces new course in renewable energy

When classes resume in September at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business MBA students will have the option to enroll in the new course “Innovation in Energy Markets and Opportunities in Renewable Energy.”

The course will provide both theoretical and practical insights into how energy technologies are developed, financed, and deployed. Highlights will include a look at the root drivers of change in the energy industry, the technologies that are emerging, and the factors that will determine their success.

The class will also examine how today’s energy providers are adapting to the changes in global energy markets and how emerging technologies could disrupt traditional energy paradigms.

The course will be taught by Travis Bradford, founder and president of the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Institute works to accelerate the deployment of socially-beneficial sustainable technologies, including those of energy, water, and food. Bradford is an adjunct professor of management at Chicago GSB.

Part of each student’s grade will be based on a final project that simulates the preparation of an analyst report on a company in the energy sector.

The course will be offered during the fall and winter quarters to students in the full-time MBA program and the evening MBA program.

 

 

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