Zayed Future Energy Prize Awarded to Saïd Business School Alums’ Venture
The Skoll Centre and The Skoll Foundation joined in congratulating M-KOPA Solar, a venture founded by a team of Skoll Scholars and Saïd Business School alumni, on being awarded this year’s Zayed Future Energy Prize for Small and Medium Enterprise. The $1.5m cash prize was awarded during the opening ceremony of the annual Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week in mid-January
M-KOPA Solar is a high quality solar energy provider which offers a mobile installment method of paying for solar energy, making high quality solar affordable for everyone. The company has pioneered a better way to supply safe power to millions of off-grid homes. It sells solar home systems on an affordable mobile money payment plan, enabling customers who complete the payment package to own a world-class solar home system, with multiple lights, phone charging and a radio.
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MIT Sloan appoints innovation expert Hal Gregersen to head the MIT Leadership Center
MIT Sloan announced the appointment of Hal Gregersen, co-author of The Innovator’s DNA, to its faculty. Gregersen will serve as both the executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and as a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation in the Work and Organization Studies Group.
Gregersen comes to MIT from INSEAD, where he held the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Chaired Professorship of Innovation and Leadership. Previously, he taught at the London Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Helsinki School of Economics, Brigham Young University, and the Turku School of Economics as a Fulbright Fellow. Gregersen is also a Senior Fellow at Innosight, the consulting firm, and a former advisory board member at Pharmascience. Continue reading…
