A week before finals ended, two fellow students (Joel Thomas and Hao Zheng) and I had a great idea: let’s enter an international business plan focused on sustainable development!  We had two small problems: 1) We didn’t have a business idea 2) The business plan was due in 3 weeks Well, this was the situation we found ourselves when entering the Shanghai Award – a joint effort led by Tsinghua University and HEC Paris.  After a couple days of brainstorming we came upon a problem that we wanted to work on solving: relatively inefficient energy use within buildings – both commercial and residential – in U.S. cities.  We decided to focus close to home, and write a business plan for Read More