An MIT-Harvard team is set to change the lives of the 500 million Africans who currently lack access to electricity. The start up, EGG-energy, connects low-income Tanzanians to power and hopes to make its owners rich in the process. EGG-energy is part of the wave of for-profit companies that are reaching for the thus far elusive goals of development with market based solutions. (3) comments
"Welcome to the newspaper business"… Those words still ring in my ears from a Wednesday night at a certain establishment in Beacon Hill over a year ago as Alexander Angerer MBA '10, Elizabeth McVay Greene MBA '10, and I agreed to take on the Editor-in-Chief roles for Fifteen from the 2009 class. (3) comments