FALL 2008

EPS9502: ENVIRONMENTAL entrepreneurship

Credits: 1.5
Cost: $1632
Payment for This Course is Due: September 16, 2008
 
Registering for EPS9502: Registration for Intensive Electives will take place through online course registration. Students will be notified of Fall 2008 registration dates via their Babson email account.  The last day to add this course is Friday, August 29^th (4:30PM deadline).  Please see the drop deadline below.

Professor: Jim Poss

Meeting Dates and Times: Friday September 12 (9:00 – 5:00), Saturday September 13 (9:00 – 5:00), and Friday October 10 (6:00 – 8:30)

Time Conflicts: Students are responsible to check the meeting dates for all Intensive Electives. If a student is registered for Intensive Electives that have conflicting dates and times, the Registrar’s Office will drop one of the these courses.

Intensive Electives Limit:The maximum number of Intensive Electives a student may take while at Babson is 4. It is the student’s responsibility to adhere to this policy. If the student exceeds this limit, we will drop that student from an Intensive Elective of our choosing.

Meeting Room: Olin 102

Dropping EPS9502: If online add/drop is closed, students can email intensiveelectives@babson.edu to drop this course.  Students can drop this course so long as an email is sent to intensiveelectives@babson.edu before the end of the day (11:59PM) of the first class meeting.  Students must email from their Babson email account.

Capacity: 42

Overview:  The public's overall "environmental conscience" has soared, forcing the world's biggest companies to change quickly.  Immense entrepreneurial opportunity is being created by a rapid shift in one of the biggest industries in human history: energy infrastructure and technology.  This course looks at the main drivers of change, barriers to entry and opportunities for new business in the years to come.

**PLEASE NOTE THIS COURSE HAS PREWORK.  SEE BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION**

Book:

-          Stuart L. Hart: Capitalism at the Crossroads

Article:

-          HBR: Natural Capitalism article: http://www.natcap.org/images/other/HBR-RMINatCap.pdf   (16 pages, free online here)

(Suggested books, but not required) 

-          Jay Inslee: Apollo’s Fire

-          Jim Collins: Good to Great and the Social Sectors  A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great (Paperback)  http://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Social-Sectors-Monograph/dp/0977326403     (about 40-50 pages) 

Other suggested items: 

-       Documentary/movie: An Inconvenient Truth

-       Documentary/movie: Who Killed the Electric Car?