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  • February 2007 (Revised June 2009)
  • Case

Edelnor (A)

By: Jordan I. Siegel
Fernando del Sol, president of F. S. Inversiones in Chile, had just bought himself a headache as a New Year's present. On December 31, 2001, he purchased a Chilean electricity generation and transmission company called Edelnor that was in danger of becoming insolvent... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Courts and Trials; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Chile
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  • 15 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

Is there a light at the end of the tunnel for General Motors? Or are those just headlights from an oncoming train? Among Harvard Business School faculty, it depends on whom you ask. The carmaker—home to such storied brands as Cadillac,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto

    Robert S. Kaplan

    Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he... View Details

    Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry
    • August 2023
    • Article

    Status and Mortality: Is There a Whitehall Effect in the United States?

    By: Tom Nicholas
    The influential Whitehall studies found that top-ranking civil servants in Britain experienced lower mortality than civil servants below them in the organizational hierarchy due to differential exposure to workplace stress. I test for a Whitehall effect in the United... View Details
    Keywords: Mortality; Status; Working Conditions; Rank and Position; Welfare; Well-being; Health
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      Roy D. Shapiro

      Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

        Suraj Srinivasan

        Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the View Details

        Keywords: accounting industry; financial services
        • March 2020
        • Article

        Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems

        By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
        In vertically integrated energy systems, integration frequently entails operational gains that must be traded off against the requisite cost of capacity investments. In the context of the model analyzed in this study, the operational gains are subject to inherent... View Details
        Keywords: Vertical Integration; Volatility; Capital Investment; Capacity Management; Renewable Energy; Green Hydrogen; Decarbonization; Carbon Emissions; Environment; Energy; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Management; Environmental Sustainability; Investment; Decision Making; Operations; Technological Innovation; Green Technology; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Consulting Industry; Green Technology Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; Steel Industry; Shipping Industry; Transportation Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
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        • May 2018 (Revised October 2018)
        • Case

        Argentina Power—Don't Cry for Me Argentina

        By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
        In 2016, Bruce Wayne, Managing Director of Energy Finance Corporation (“EFC”), was refining the Investment/Credit Committee materials for the development of up to 10 power generating plants in Argentina. As a subsidiary of the much larger International Conglomerate... View Details
        Keywords: Cross Border; Energy Markets; Infrastructure Finance; Infrastructure Development; Business Subsidiaries; Business Cycles; Macroeconomics; Energy Generation; International Finance; Project Finance; Government and Politics; Demand and Consumers; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; Latin America
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          Ashish Nanda

          Ashish Nanda is Senior Lecturer and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at Harvard Business School. From 2018 to 2021, he was course head for the MBA Required Curriculum course in Strategy. Beginning in 2022, he is teaching an MBA Elective... View Details

          Keywords: accounting industry; advertising; asset management; banking; brokerage; consulting; e-commerce industry; education industry; executive search; financial services; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; professional services; real estate; service industry; sports; tourism
          • 19 Aug 2019
          • Blog Post

          Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition

          technologies (e.g. renewables, electric utilities, low carbon intensity biofuels). This inspired me to join the Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) group at Shell, from where I have been able to invest in the types of cutting-edge... View Details
          Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology
          • January 2025
          • Case

          GE Appliances 2025: Energizing Change

          By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jacob A. Small
          At the turn of 2025, Kevin Nolan, CEO of GE Appliances following its acquisition by Chinese appliance giant Haier in 2016, is reviewing progress toward his net zero carbon vision for homes, which would otherwise exacerbate the global warming climate crisis. An... View Details
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          • February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
          • Case

          Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs

          By: John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr and Fan Zhao
          Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also government policies supporting a rival technology. Wen Yibo has used engineering expertise and political savvy to build a major privately... View Details
          Keywords: Private Sector; Public Sector; Service Delivery; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Wastes and Waste Processing; Urban Development; Utilities Industry; China
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          • September 2012 (Revised September 2014)
          • Case

          Doing Business in Malaysia

          By: C. Fritz Foley, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Keith Chi-Ho Wong
          This case focuses on the current business environment in Malaysia as of 2012 by introducing the main economic, political and cultural aspects of the country for those interested in doing business there. The advantages and challenges of investing and doing business in... View Details
          Keywords: Emerging Market Finance; Emergent Countries; Business History; Economic History; Fieldwork; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Strategy; Malaysia
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          • December 2001 (Revised April 2003)
          • Case

          Financing PPL Corporation's Growth Strategy

          By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman
          PPL Corp., an electric utility in Pennsylvania, needs to finance $1 billion of peaking plants as part of its new growth strategy. In February 2001, Steve May, director of finance for PPL's Global Division, is responsible for recommending a finance plan. After... View Details
          Keywords: Financial Management; Financial Instruments; Project Finance; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Leasing
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          • December 2022 (Revised May 2023)
          • Case

          Iberdrola: Leading the Energy Revolution

          By: Juan Alcácer and Emer Moloney
          At the end of 2019, Ignacio Galán, the Chairman and CEO of the world's third largest utility, Iberdrola, reflected on his almost 20 years at the company. He managed a portfolio of three very different businesses, each with their own specific opportunities and... View Details
          Keywords: Energy; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Engineering; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Timing; Industry Growth; Mission and Purpose; Strategy; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; Transportation Industry; Auto Industry; Spain; United Kingdom; United States; Brazil; Mexico
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          • 08 May 2025
          • HBS Seminar

          Ramesh Johari, Stanford

          • December 2018 (Revised January 2020)
          • Case

          Husk Power: Scaling the Venture

          By: Benjamin N. Roth, Joseph B. Lassiter III and Natalia Rigol
          In January 2018, Manoj Sinha—founder and CEO of Husk Power—was contemplating raising $20 million to scale operations for a second time. From 2007 through 2013, Husk built 80 biomass waste plants that provided electricity to 250,000 villagers and shop owners spread... View Details
          Keywords: Scaling; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Growth and Development Strategy; Energy Industry; India
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          • August 2017 (Revised December 2017)
          • Case

          Accounting for Nuclear Power Provisions at RWE

          By: Paul Healy and Jonas Heese
          In early 2016, RWE, a utility that operates nuclear power plants in Germany, came under scrutiny from regulators and the media over the adequacy of its provisions for costs of decommissioning and dismantling (D&D) its nuclear power plants. Accounting standards required... View Details
          Keywords: Liabilities; Provisions For Long-term Obligations; Discounting; Accounting; Energy Generation; Energy Industry; Germany
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          • 07 Jul 2008
          • Research & Ideas

          Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

          the rewards were great. This initial success prompted Enron to extrapolate its business model to other markets. In 1994, Enron officials started trading wholesale electricity after Congress deregulated the industry; Enron analysts... View Details
          Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
          • May 2002 (Revised August 2006)
          • Case

          Yangcheng: AES in China

          By: Richard H.K. Vietor
          AES, an American electric power company with 141 plants worldwide, is just completing construction of a 2,100-MW plant in China--the largest ever. The project, a joint venture with five local companies, has several environmental, ownership, and operational issues as... View Details
          Keywords: Energy Generation; Joint Ventures; Foreign Direct Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Problems and Challenges; Energy Industry; China
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