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PG&E: A Utility Struggles to Adapt to the Information Age Pacific Gas and Electric Company may be an ancient dinosaur, but one of its problems is too much technology. That is, too many scattered information technology systems that don't talk to one another.   |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
Robert Glynn During the energy deregulation boom of the late 1990s, PG&E Corp. Chairman and CEO Robert D. Glynn Jr. made several strategic bets that didn't pan out. |
The Motley Fool
December 13, 2010
Jeremy Phillips |
Time to Sell PG&E? PG&E is having no trouble maintaining its gross margin, which tends to dictate a company's overall profitability. This is solid news; however, PG&E investors need to keep an eye on this over the coming quarters. |
Salon.com
January 27, 2001
Arianna Huffington |
Gov. Davis and the failure of power California's energy crisis is another lesson in the need for campaign finance reform... |
Fast Company
September 2008
Anya Kamenetz |
Paul Fenn Takes on PG&E Activist-turned-entrepreneur Paul Fenn's effort to bring affordable sustainable energy to California could be revolutionary -- and electricity giant PG&E isn't happy about it at all. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2004
Jim Mueller |
PG&E's Dividend At first glance, Pacific Gas & Electric seems to be using debt to finance its recently announced dividend. Say it isn't so! But don't jump to conclusions. Consumers and shareholders win on this deal. |
Salon.com
January 30, 2001
Anthony York |
The deregulation debacle Who's responsible for for California's electricity crisis? Everyone... |
CFO
February 1, 2005
Tim Reason |
Keeping Skin in the Game Joining a bankrupt customer's creditors committee may preserve its viability -- and your assets. |
Reason
June 2001
Michael W. Lynch & Adrian Moore |
Power Tripped Faulty re-regulation turns out the lights in the Golden State... |
InternetNews
August 15, 2006
David Needle |
Sun Rebates Courtesy of California Utility PG&E certifies rebates for certain server models. |
The Motley Fool
May 4, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
PG&E: A Safe Cleantech Play? The West Coast utility company is involved in a variety of renewable energy projects that could make it a legitimate cleantech investment. |
BusinessWeek
September 16, 2010
Galante & Chediak |
Smart Meters May Not Be So Clever A consumer backlash is slowing rollouts of new electric meters |
BusinessWeek
March 20, 2008
Steve Hamm |
PG&E Wants Less of Your Business The California utility is working on ways to help companies use less power in their data centers. |
CFO
March 1, 2003
Kris Frieswick |
Separate but Liable Companies have walled off valuable assets in subsidiaries for decades. Are those walls starting to crack? |
The Motley Fool
March 15, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Clean Energy Cleans Up Pacific Gas & Electric creates a $30 million investment fund for renewable sources. As more VCs join the party more money will flow in, creating a sturdy industry that could grow to be worth billions. |
Salon.com
April 7, 2001
Cary Tennis |
Why I relish the PG&E power fiasco Of course we kept the lights on! That misguided monolith gave us no incentive not to... |
CIO
September 14, 2008
Abbie Lundberg |
Knowing Things Need to Change is Only Half the Battle New ideas are all well and good. But do you have a plan? |
The Motley Fool
January 7, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
This Trend Could Destroy Your Savings New laws haven't stemmed the tide of bankruptcies. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2007
Peter Fairley |
Electric-Car Maker Touts 10-Minute Fill-up Thanks to an uncommonly stable lithium chemistry and high-surface-area nanopatterned electrodes, Altair Nanotechnologies' lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles charge up fast. Very fast. Skeptics say substation-scale power levels needed are unrealistic. |
CIO
September 1, 2005
Allan Holmes |
What's Shakin'? A service launched by the U.S. Geological Survey provides companies with real-time earthquake data that they can use to make disaster recovery decisions more quickly and corral the costs of future earthquake damage. |
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Alix Nyberg |
Bottom Fishing Many distressed assets are for sale these days, but because so many are intangible, how can buyers be sure they're getting a bargain? |
Salon.com
February 14, 2001
Anthony York |
Energy vultures California's electricity crisis could have been avoided if profiteering power-generating companies hadn't blocked further deregulation.... |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2011
Dan Caplinger |
Can Bankrupt Stocks Make You Rich? Dynegy proves the exception to the rule. |
The Motley Fool
May 11, 2011
Rich Smith |
H&E Equipment Services Shares Dropped: What You Need to Know Shares of H&E Equipment Services fell as much as 10% earlier today, ending the day still down 8% after heavy selling. |
The Motley Fool
June 2, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
3 Bankruptcies That Actually Helped Investors Some bankrupt companies made good investments. Take a look at: Conseco... Delta Airlines... UAL Corp. ... |
The Motley Fool
November 12, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
How Safe Is Your Broker? Shares of the online discount broker E*Trade take a 50% tumble after an analyst's bearish warning on the company. |
Inc.
October 15, 2000
Mike Hofman |
Let's Get Physical Four years ago E*Trade Group was considered a threat to traditional retailing. Now the online stock brokerage is throwing itself into that business... |
U.S. Banker
September 2001
Mark Bruno |
E*Trade Bank Going Strong E*Trade Group seems to be making it, though not on its brokerage business, which like most others has been languishing, but on its stand-alone Internet banking unit... |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2001
John E. Besant-Jones & Bernard Tenenbaum |
Lessons from California's Power Crisis Clearly, what happened in California was not what was planned. It is not surprising that policymakers around the world are now asking questions... |
The Motley Fool
May 19, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
Why You Should Love Homeowner Defaults Overall, experience has shown that leniency in bankruptcy does more good than harm for society as a whole. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2006
Kristen French |
E*Trade on RIA Shopping Spree Having acquired four wealth-management firms in the past 18 months, E*Trade is still just getting started on its acquisition strategy. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2010
Rich Smith |
Like Kryptonite for Super Bankers AS&E makes Wall Street look small-f foolish. Yesterday, American Science & Engineering gave investors an object lesson in Wall Street "analysis." |
The Motley Fool
October 5, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Here Comes the Sun Two big deals spotlight the growing influence solar power will have in the future. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
February 11, 2010
Rich Smith |
American Science Takes Its Lumps Once again, AS&E suffers from lumpy earnings. |
Outside
May 2009 |
Dirty Pics Picture from a photography shoot in San Francisco. |
BusinessWeek
June 12, 2006
Michael Orey |
Enron's Last Mystery Was Enron's law firm, Vinson & Elkins, as blind to the company's shenanigans as it maintains? Internal messages suggest the firm doubted the legitimacy of some of Enron's business practices. |
Geotimes
April 2006
Megan Sever |
100 Years After San Francisco Quake Whether you're tracing historical locations of the 1906 earthquake or just traveling through San Francisco and the Bay Area, be aware of your surroundings -- researchers say it's not a question of "if" the San Andreas will shake San Francisco again, it's a matter of "when." |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 17, 2015
Michael Blanding |
HBS Cases:The Battle for San Francisco In San Francisco, tech companies are hoping to make the world a better place -- but the fabric of the city is changing in the process. Technology workers may be threatening the very culture that they came to celebrate. |
The Motley Fool
November 12, 2007
Seth Jayson |
The Lesson From E*Trade In its quest for growth, E*Trade put far too much of its asset base into residential real estate loans or related derivatives -- at the top of a since-crumbled market. The result? Shares that have tumbled 60% and an analyst's prediction of bankruptcy. |
The Motley Fool
November 19, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Let's All Pick on E*Trade Even though critics think the chances of bankruptcy at E*Trade are remote, the perception is enough to send account holders scrambling to steadier pastures. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2010
Anand Chokkavelu |
3 Stocks to Consider Before Buying E*TRADE If you like E*TRADE, you may like these 3 stocks better: Annaly Capital... BB&T... American Capital... |
