Presidian Blog

The driving forces of Summer Meyer’s life can be summed up by two words:  love and adventure. If you know Summer (you might have met her as Karin, her former name), you know that both shine through unmistakably in her life. She exudes an appreciation for challenges, nature, community, people, and self. Together with her …

Finding the right career path can sometimes become quite a challenging task, especially for fresh graduates as they have little or no knowledge about job market and potential careers for them. What makes them different from other job candidates is that they are yet to figure out what job is most suitable for them based …

I was on the night train to Vancouver when I awoke somewhere—probably northern California but I couldn’t say for sure. There were no signs or cities or other manmade artifacts to give clue to my whereabouts, just railroad ties along some high alpine plain. The sun had just come up and was reflecting off the …

Why Brocade’s Senior Director of Corporate Affairs Came to PGS When making decisions about graduate school, a mentor had this sage advice, “If you’re going to spend tens of thousands of dollars and consume two years—or more, as it would happen—of your life with time away from your family, wouldn’t you want to at least …

Over the last year, I have watched an idea that was hatched over pizza and a glass of wine with a friend turn into a thriving business. It has been one of the most challenging years of my life, but also one of the most rewarding, culminating in Conscious Company Magazine—the first nationally distributed, print …

The idea of constructing a “mini” water treatment system for the consumer sprang from three growing problems globally: water scarcity, water source unpredictability, and water quality degradation. In part, the problem with water from an environmental, economic, and social perspective is that we have misallocated its value. Environmentally, we waste it instead of conserving it, …

While we fantasize about a dream matchup in next year’s Super Bowl 50 at Santa Clara (Oakland Raiders vs. San Francisco 49ers, anyone?), there will at least be a dream team of Presidio Graduate School alums working to support the Super Bowl 50 Host Committee in their goal to make the Big Game as sustainable …

Governor Brown appoints Matt Henigan California’s Deputy Secretary for Sustainability When Matt Henigan (C10) was a freshman at Pitzer College, a professor asked him the question that would end up shaping his academic and professional life. “What is the question you’re in school to answer?” As a child, Matt was the kid with the lemonade stand raising …

Raley’s Meg Burritt seeks to change the world, one grocery run at a time. Meg Burritt (C9) wanted to open a bakery. A bakery that was “local, sustainable, and quality.” A bakery that sourced every ingredient—down to the sugar and the flour—as locally as possible. A bakery that was meaningfully integrated into the fabric of the …

This spring marks the 10th anniversary of Presidio Graduate School‘s first graduating class—22 students who took a risk on a new way of approaching business that doesn’t look at financial gains as the sole determinant of success, but instead takes a systemic perspective, evaluating decisions within the context of how they impact people, profit, and …