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...Part of the premium Welch places on people can be seen in his development of Crotonville, where he is a familiar figure. The 52-acre New York GE campus is the first major corporate business school in the world where everyone from newly-hired college graduates to division heads gather to learn from each other and, frequently, the big man himself...
Having kids back to back might suit other needs too. Says Joseph Hagan, a committee chair for the American Academy of Pediatrics: "People put such a premium on getting birth spacing 'right,' but there are so many other factors in family planning--finances, work, the age of the mother--that couples might not want to wait the full two years...
...people want to make a pure green product and sell it at a 20 or 50 percent premium, that'd be great," he says. "We're not a charity, we're not a non-profit organization. We must attract capital. Our plan is to change the way power is made, do it with other people's money and give it back to them with a return...
...sure, Dennis Kelly is rooting for a clean-energy renaissance. The more cleaner energy there is on the market - and the cleaner it is - the better Kelly will be able to peddle it to consumers who are willing to pay a small premium to have a clearer conscience every time they plug in and turn...
...company is still privately held, and so numbers like profits and revenues are still behind the curtain (an IPO is planned, Kelly says, "for when we can do it"). And no matter how much the company tries to cast its monthly premium as a selling point - "in order to sell a cleaner mix of energy, we have to charge a premium, and that's fine with us" - Green Mountain's bottom line will always be up against the fact that Americans are generally quite adamant about paying as little for electricity as they possibly...