IBS will drive down Electric Avenue on March 23
Electric car pioneers Shai Agassi and Michael Granoff will receive the 2010 Asper Award for Global Entrepreneurship
Shai Agassi |
Agassi, the firm’s founder and chief executive officer, embarked on a mission to make zero-emission, electric-powered cars a reality across the globe. Granoff was one of the first investors in this drive for oil independence. Better Place is now the best-funded clean technology company in history, and is deploying electric car systems in Israel, Denmark, and Australia, with Japan, the U.S., and Canada to follow.
Michael Granoff |
The campus community is invited to join the keynote address and discussion entitled “Driving Down Electric Avenue: A New Route to an Oil-Independent World?” with a reception to follow. Click here to learn more and to register for the event.
Click here to read a Boston Globe article on Agassi and Granoff being named the 2010 Asper Award recipients.
The event is sponsored by the Asper Center for Global Entrepreneurship. The center is Brandeis International Business School's platform for exploring the contributions of entrepreneurship in different professions across borders. It was established by Leonard J. Asper '86, president and CEO of Canwest Global Communications.