Publications

September – October 2009
Article

U.S. Energy Policy: Overcoming Barriers to Acting

By: Max Bazerman

Energy policy is on everyone's mind these days. The U.S. presidential campaign focused on energy independence and exploration (drill, baby, drill), climate change, alternative fuels, even nuclear energy. But there is a serious problem endemic to America's energy... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Climate Change; Energy Sources; Government and Politics; Cognition and Thinking; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Problems and Challenges; Non-Renewable Energy; Economics; Natural Environment; Energy Industry; United States

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December 2017
Teaching Note

Accounting for Nuclear Power Provisions at RWE

By: Jonas Heese

Teaching Note for HBS No. 118-013. View Details

Keywords: Liabilities; Discounting; Provisions For Long-term Obligations

07 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?

This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

March 2011
Teaching Note

Areva and the Nuclear Renaissance (TN)

By: Noel Maurer

Teaching Note for 709061. View Details

Keywords: Energy Industry; Europe; China; United States

February 2012
Case

Hyperion Power Module: Downsizing the Nuclear Renaissance?

By: Dennis Yao and Britta Kelley

Keywords: Energy Industry

September 2022
Article

Energy Innovation Funding and Institutions in Major Economies

By: Jonas Meckling, Clara Galeazzi, Esther Shears, Tong Xu and Laura Diaz Anadon

Accelerating energy innovation for decarbonization hinges on public investment in research, development and demonstration (RD&D). Here we examine the evolution and variation of public energy RD&D funding and institutions and associated drivers across eight major... View Details

Keywords: Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Energy Policy; Government Legislation; Energy Sources

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11 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

Yangcheng, China. "You can't understand innovations in energy without a grounding in the basic, traditional industries that they're trying to supplant," Reinhardt says. A classroom module on innovations in View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Energy

1985
Other Unpublished Work

The Shorham Nuclear Power Plant (A)- HBS Analysis and Decision Case

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Energy; Management; Energy Industry; New York (state, US)

October 2014 (Revised June 2016)
Case

NuScale Power—the Future of Small Modular Reactors

By: Richard Vietor

NuScale Power, an entrepreneurial venture in Portland, Oregon, has designed the leading modular nuclear reactor in the United States. This Reactor will be the safest and simplest ever built. Started in 2007 as an entrepreneurial venture, the company is now two years... View Details

Keywords: Nuclear; Power; Technology; Risk; Energy; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Risk and Uncertainty; Energy Industry

November 2012 (Revised December 2017)
Case

TerraPower

By: William A. Sahlman, Ramana Nanda, Joseph B. Lassiter III and James McQuade

John Gilleland, CEO of TerraPower, returned to his office after a lengthy meeting with potential investors. It was October 2012, and TerraPower was in the process of raising a $200M Series C round to finance the ongoing development of its next-generation nuclear... View Details

Keywords: Nuclear Power; Entrepreneurial Finance; Financing and Loans; Venture Capital; Energy Industry; United States; China; India

1987
Other Unpublished Work

Testimony on Evaluating the Management of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Project

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Energy; Management; Energy Industry; California

08 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities

May 2021 (Revised February 2022)
Case

NuScale - Commercializing the first small modular reactor in the world

By: Jurgen Weiss and Richard H.K. Vietor

Keywords: Nuclear

01 Dec 2008
News

Energy Sources: Daniel Yergin and the EP Team

chapters they authored or coauthored) were I.C. Bupp (natural gas, nuclear power); Mel Horwitch MBA ’69, DBA ’75(coal); Sergio Koreisha DBA ’80 (energy models); Modesto Maidique PMD 30, 1975 (solar); Frank Schuller MBA ’76, DBA ’82... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

March 2014
Case

Babcock International Plc

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin

In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering services provider in the UK with sales of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Change; Strategy And Leadership; Diversification; United Kingdom; Military; Nuclear Power; Nuclear; Engineering And Construction; Conglomerates; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom

June 2012 (Revised February 2014)
Case

Low-Carbon, Indigenous Innovation in China

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

For the past seven years or so, the Chinese government has been powering ahead with industrial policies to promote low-carbon energy technologies—wind, solar, electric batteries and vehicles, nuclear power, and even carbon capture and sequestration. In 2009, the... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Renewables; Carbon; Environment; Industrial Policy; Competitiveness; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Renewable Energy; Competition; Globalized Markets and Industries; Energy Industry; China

October 2018 (Revised August 2023)
Case

Safecast: Bootstrapping Human Capital to Big Data

By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephanie Marton

On March 11, 2011, at 2:46pm, a 9.1-on-the-Richter-scale, six-minute long earthquake unleashed a tsunami that ravaged the Tohoku region of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power facility and releasing sufficient radioactive material into the air and ocean... View Details