IXL Social Enterprise Case Studies Energy January 2012 | Page 17

Revolutionizing the way to make energy affordable for everyone
AUTHORS
Charles Howe
Associate Professor, Hult International Business School; Associate Director and Partner, IXL Center
Charles is responsible for project integration, advisory, and client management at IXL. He also serves as an
an instructor and facilitator of IXL’s Innovation and Growth courses and workshops. Prior to joining IXL,
he served as a consultant to Liberty Mutual and as a Senior Leader at the Monitor Group. He also serves as
a senior advisor to Community Water Solutions, a not-for-profit social enterprise organization.
Joanne Lawrence
Global Professor, Corporate Responsibility/Social Innovation, Hult International Business School
Senior Associate, IXL Center
With extensive international corporate, consulting and academic experience, Joanne focuses on the
transformative role of business and developing the ethical , holistic thinking leaders and organizational
cultures that create lasting societal and economic value. Her latest book, Globally Responsible Leadership:
Business According to UN Global Compact, will be published by Sage in Spring, 2012.
Dr. Hitendra Patel
Hult Professor of Innovation and Growth; Managing Director, IXL Center
At IXL Center, Hitendra works with firms and their executives to develop the institutional capabilities and
culture that foster growth through innovation. He has given speeches globally on Innovation and Growth
and is the author of a range of books on Innovation. At Hult, he is the Global Director of Innovation,
Management Consulting and Action Learning Programs.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to thank Jeremy Leggett, Steve Andrews, David Battley, Gerrard Graf, John Keane,
Pepijn Steemers, Richard Turner, Linda Waume and the staff of SolarAid for their extensive support,
responsiveness, and encouragement. Special thanks to Kerry Herman, Howard McNally, Ahmad Ashkar,
and Stephen Hodges, President of Hult International Business School.

About IXL Center

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world. Its mission is to help corporations and individuals develop world-class innovation
management capability while driving significant business impact. IXL Center delivers
this through Training, Coaching and Advisory services to create innovation breakthroughs
and to build the innovation capabilities of individuals, teams and organizations. Clients
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and collaborative research projects. IXL Center is a global community of innovation
thought leaders and practitioners with offices in Boston, Dubai, London, San Francisco,
Shanghai, São Paulo and Seoul.

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