SUNDAY, APRIL 13
930-11PM - Screening of Years of Living Dangerously
MBA Lounge, Knight Management Center, Stanford University
This event is for GSB students only. Snacks and drinks (beer, wine, EANABS) will be provided.
Come join your fellow GSBers in the MBA Lounge for a screening of the premiere of Years of Living Dangerously, a new Showtime documentary miniseries. Years of Living Dangerously focuses on the impacts of, and solutions to, climate change. The first episode will premiere on April 13, 2014 as the beginning of an 8-part series. James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub and Arnold Schwarzenegger are executive producers of the series. The series will feature celebrity correspondents who interview experts and ordinary people affected by global warming. They include Harrison Ford, Matt Damon, Jessica Alba, Don Cheadle, America Ferrera, Schwarzenegger, Lesley Stahl, Mark Bittman, Ian Somerhalder, Olivia Munn, Thomas Friedman and Michael C. Hall.
MONDAY, APRIL 14
12-1PM - Panel Discussion on the Cleantech Revolution with Cathy Zoi and Stefan Heck
Room M105, Knight Management Center, Stanford University
This event is free and open to the Stanford community.
Join us for a student-moderated panel discussion on climate change and technology innovation with Stefan Heck (former director of McKinsey's Global Cleantech Practice) and Cathy Zoi (former Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy). The panel will focus on the opportunities in technology innovation to address the climate challenge, and what needs to happen in policy and business to take advantage of those opportunities.
415-515PM - Stanford Energy Seminar Student Q&A with Gro Brundtland, Former Prime Minister of Norway
NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsung Huang Engineering Center, Stanford University
This event is free and open to the public.
This Energy Seminar will feature a student-led discussion with Dr. Brundtland on the challenges in climate and energy – an area in which she has been a global leader. It will be followed by an Energy Social (with food and drink) from 5:15-6:15pm. Dr. Brundtland spent ten years as a physician and scientist, and 20 years in public office, including serving as Prime Minister of Norway for more than ten years - the first woman, and the youngest person to ever do so. She was Chair of the World Commission of Environment and Development, and the first female Director-General of the World Health Organization. She has served as UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, and was the guiding force behind the “Brundtland Report” on sustainability over 25 years ago. She currently serves as Deputy Chair of The Elders, a group founded in 2007 by Nelson Mandela, chaired by Kofi Annan to tackle the world’s toughest problems and make the world a better place. This spring, Dr. Gro Brundtland is serving as the Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor at Stanford University.The weekly Energy Seminar is chaired by Professor Sally Benson and managed by the Precourt Institute for Energy and the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford.
TUESDAY, APRIL 15
12-1PM - Talk by George P. Shultz on Climate Change
G102 (note that this room has changed from G101), Knight Management Center, Stanford University
This event is free and open to the Stanford Community.
George P. Shultz is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He served as the sixtieth US secretary of state and from July 1982 to January 1989. In January 1989, he rejoined Stanford University as the Jack Steele Parker Professor of International Economics at the Graduate School of Business and as a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution. Shultz will speak about the challenge of climate change, and the opportunities in the business, policy and energy sectors to address it. He has worked on energy policy for several years. In 2010 he and prominent investor Tom Steyer led the successful campaign to defeat Proposition 23, a California ballot initiative to suspend the state's ambitious law to curb greenhouse gases. In addition to leading the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy, Shultz chairs the advisory boards of two energy research umbrella organizations: Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Energy Initiative. He also leads a group that recently proposed a revenue-neutral federal tax on carbon to slash U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and oil consumption.
9PM-Midnight - Climate Week-themed FOAM - It's Getting Hot In Here!
The Nut House
THURSDAY, APRIL 17;
12-1PM - Risky Business – What do leaders need to know about the economic risks of climate change?
Room M105, Knight Management Center, Stanford University
This event is free and open to the Stanford community. Registration is required -- email [email protected].
Join a conversation with Stanford Faculty and staff from Next Generation to learn more about the work of Risky Business, an new initiative led by Michael Bloomberg, Hank Paulson and Tom Steyer to assess climate risk in the United States. Hosted by the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, this panel will change the way you think about climate change. Confirmed panelists include:
3-4PM - Tour of New Stanford Central Energy Plant (to replace existing co-gen plant)
Meet Matt Mo ([email protected]) in Town Square at 3pm to walk over.
6-8PM - Energy Industry Networking Night
Oberndorf Event Center (N302), Knight Management Center, Stanford University
Registration required. This event is open to Stanford students only.
The Stanford Energy Club (SEC) and the GSB Energy Club will host a networking event with energy companies in Silicon Valley, including SolarCity, Tesla, Autogrid, and many more!
FRIDAY, APRIL 18
12-1PM - Climate Competition
Town Square, Knight Management Center
Compete for awesome prizes in games of climate-themed Corn Hole, Twister, Group Challenge, and Trivia! These games are sponsored by the MBA SA Athletic Committee.
1230-630PM - Connecting the Dots: The Climate, Energy, Food, and Water Nexus
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University
Registration is required. Priority will be given to Stanford students, faculty, staff, and to others in the Stanford community.
In celebration of Earth Day, leading energy researchers at Stanford from a range of disciplines will discuss the interconnections and interactions among humanity's needs for and use of climate, energy, water, food, and the environment. Drawing on their own research, speakers will illustrate and evaluate some of the ways in which decisions in one resource area can lead to trade-offs or co-benefits in others. This year we will start with climate and examine the impacts, adaptation and vulnerabilities due to climate change, as covered in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II Report, scheduled for release on March 31, 2014. Symposium attendees will also be able to participate in breakout sessions, led by Stanford students and faculty, on a range of challenges associated with climate change.
5-730PM- LPF!
Town Square, Knight Management Center, Stanford University
This event is open to members of the GSB community.
This Liquidity Preference Function (LPF) will be co-hosted by the Climate Week team, Sustainable Business Club and GSB Food & Ag club, and features music by MBA1s Johnson and Mike.
930-11PM - Screening of Years of Living Dangerously
MBA Lounge, Knight Management Center, Stanford University
This event is for GSB students only. Snacks and drinks (beer, wine, EANABS) will be provided.
Come join your fellow GSBers in the MBA Lounge for a screening of the premiere of Years of Living Dangerously, a new Showtime documentary miniseries. Years of Living Dangerously focuses on the impacts of, and solutions to, climate change. The first episode will premiere on April 13, 2014 as the beginning of an 8-part series. James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub and Arnold Schwarzenegger are executive producers of the series. The series will feature celebrity correspondents who interview experts and ordinary people affected by global warming. They include Harrison Ford, Matt Damon, Jessica Alba, Don Cheadle, America Ferrera, Schwarzenegger, Lesley Stahl, Mark Bittman, Ian Somerhalder, Olivia Munn, Thomas Friedman and Michael C. Hall.
MONDAY, APRIL 14
12-1PM - Panel Discussion on the Cleantech Revolution with Cathy Zoi and Stefan Heck
Room M105, Knight Management Center, Stanford University
This event is free and open to the Stanford community.
Join us for a student-moderated panel discussion on climate change and technology innovation with Stefan Heck (former director of McKinsey's Global Cleantech Practice) and Cathy Zoi (former Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy). The panel will focus on the opportunities in technology innovation to address the climate challenge, and what needs to happen in policy and business to take advantage of those opportunities.
415-515PM - Stanford Energy Seminar Student Q&A with Gro Brundtland, Former Prime Minister of Norway
NVIDIA Auditorium, Jen-Hsung Huang Engineering Center, Stanford University
This event is free and open to the public.
This Energy Seminar will feature a student-led discussion with Dr. Brundtland on the challenges in climate and energy – an area in which she has been a global leader. It will be followed by an Energy Social (with food and drink) from 5:15-6:15pm. Dr. Brundtland spent ten years as a physician and scientist, and 20 years in public office, including serving as Prime Minister of Norway for more than ten years - the first woman, and the youngest person to ever do so. She was Chair of the World Commission of Environment and Development, and the first female Director-General of the World Health Organization. She has served as UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, and was the guiding force behind the “Brundtland Report” on sustainability over 25 years ago. She currently serves as Deputy Chair of The Elders, a group founded in 2007 by Nelson Mandela, chaired by Kofi Annan to tackle the world’s toughest problems and make the world a better place. This spring, Dr. Gro Brundtland is serving as the Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor at Stanford University.The weekly Energy Seminar is chaired by Professor Sally Benson and managed by the Precourt Institute for Energy and the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford.
TUESDAY, APRIL 15
12-1PM - Talk by George P. Shultz on Climate Change
G102 (note that this room has changed from G101), Knight Management Center, Stanford University
This event is free and open to the Stanford Community.
George P. Shultz is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He served as the sixtieth US secretary of state and from July 1982 to January 1989. In January 1989, he rejoined Stanford University as the Jack Steele Parker Professor of International Economics at the Graduate School of Business and as a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution. Shultz will speak about the challenge of climate change, and the opportunities in the business, policy and energy sectors to address it. He has worked on energy policy for several years. In 2010 he and prominent investor Tom Steyer led the successful campaign to defeat Proposition 23, a California ballot initiative to suspend the state's ambitious law to curb greenhouse gases. In addition to leading the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy, Shultz chairs the advisory boards of two energy research umbrella organizations: Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Energy Initiative. He also leads a group that recently proposed a revenue-neutral federal tax on carbon to slash U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and oil consumption.
9PM-Midnight - Climate Week-themed FOAM - It's Getting Hot In Here!
The Nut House
THURSDAY, APRIL 17;
12-1PM - Risky Business – What do leaders need to know about the economic risks of climate change?
Room M105, Knight Management Center, Stanford University
This event is free and open to the Stanford community. Registration is required -- email [email protected].
Join a conversation with Stanford Faculty and staff from Next Generation to learn more about the work of Risky Business, an new initiative led by Michael Bloomberg, Hank Paulson and Tom Steyer to assess climate risk in the United States. Hosted by the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, this panel will change the way you think about climate change. Confirmed panelists include:
- John Weyant - Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Director of the Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) and Deputy Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency at Stanford University
- Michael Mastrandrea - Assistant Consulting Professor at the Stanford University Woods Institute for the Environment, Lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources (IPER)
- Jamesine Rogers – Project Manager, Risky Business, Next Generation
3-4PM - Tour of New Stanford Central Energy Plant (to replace existing co-gen plant)
Meet Matt Mo ([email protected]) in Town Square at 3pm to walk over.
6-8PM - Energy Industry Networking Night
Oberndorf Event Center (N302), Knight Management Center, Stanford University
Registration required. This event is open to Stanford students only.
The Stanford Energy Club (SEC) and the GSB Energy Club will host a networking event with energy companies in Silicon Valley, including SolarCity, Tesla, Autogrid, and many more!
FRIDAY, APRIL 18
12-1PM - Climate Competition
Town Square, Knight Management Center
Compete for awesome prizes in games of climate-themed Corn Hole, Twister, Group Challenge, and Trivia! These games are sponsored by the MBA SA Athletic Committee.
1230-630PM - Connecting the Dots: The Climate, Energy, Food, and Water Nexus
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford University
Registration is required. Priority will be given to Stanford students, faculty, staff, and to others in the Stanford community.
In celebration of Earth Day, leading energy researchers at Stanford from a range of disciplines will discuss the interconnections and interactions among humanity's needs for and use of climate, energy, water, food, and the environment. Drawing on their own research, speakers will illustrate and evaluate some of the ways in which decisions in one resource area can lead to trade-offs or co-benefits in others. This year we will start with climate and examine the impacts, adaptation and vulnerabilities due to climate change, as covered in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II Report, scheduled for release on March 31, 2014. Symposium attendees will also be able to participate in breakout sessions, led by Stanford students and faculty, on a range of challenges associated with climate change.
5-730PM- LPF!
Town Square, Knight Management Center, Stanford University
This event is open to members of the GSB community.
This Liquidity Preference Function (LPF) will be co-hosted by the Climate Week team, Sustainable Business Club and GSB Food & Ag club, and features music by MBA1s Johnson and Mike.