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- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
“Supercomputing has opened up massive innovations in nuclear startups by allowing us to simulate the inside of a nuclear reactor for a mere $200 million instead of $6 billion!” As new technologies such as... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
group. Natarajan felt sure a group dedicated to SBP led by one of the firm's most respected technologists would help spur adoption. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412036-PDF-ENG Duke Energy and the Nuclear... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
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 away from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
process of raising a $200M Series C round to finance the ongoing development of its next-generation nuclear reactor. Though early in the fundraising process, Gilleland noted that this most recent conversation was similar to conversations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
subsidies are our descendants. If they could vote in Senate elections or in shareholder meetings, they would fire us. Other Articles In This Series Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
Fund has outperformed the S&P 500 by a 1.2 percent annual average return, she said Amy Domini Her firm uses some 100 criteria in judging a potential investment. Immediate knockouts would be companies involved in power, alcohol, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
growing, but not fast enough. Nuclear power should be part of the answer, although these facilities are very expensive to build—$6-8 billion for a thousand megawatt plant—and the disposal of nuclear waste... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?
judging from per capita declines in both natural and unnatural deaths worldwide. While the problem of nuclear weapons proliferation remains with us, the 21st century challenges relate to such things as space exploration and the... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
generations of oil." David Hirsch seconds this notion, saying, "There is nothing our technology (including revisiting our ‘revulsion toward nuclear power') cannot achieve." There is a great deal of support as well for the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
negotiations over German reunification in which former United States Secretary of State James Baker played a key role. Is a Nuclear Deal with Iran Possible? An Analytical Framework for the Iran Nuclear... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Business School Case 118-013 Accounting for Nuclear Power Provisions at RWE In early 2016, RWE, a utility that operates nuclear power plants in Germany, came under scrutiny from regulators and the media over... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
and licensed to practice radiology in the United States. The data set included 2.7 million scans read by the radiologists for 1,431 customers over a 30-month period. Nearly 85 percent of the scans were CT; roughly 10 percent were ultrasound; and X-ray, MRI, and View Details
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
Management for Corporate Leaders in 2010, says she's still following up with both banks and plans to turn the research into teaching case studies. She's also looking at how risk management works in industries such as electrical and View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317033-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 616-052 Nuclear Energy: An Answer to Climate Change? Environmental activist groups have traditionally opposed nuclear... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
children from Pakistan. It's probably one of the nicest things anyone could have done to repair Indo-Pak relations and reduce the possibility of nuclear war. He has done it beautifully. He has a colleague stationed at the border, and the... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
The UPower founders, Jake DeWitte and Caroline Cochran, were recent graduates from MIT's Nuclear Science and Engineering Department. They chose to attend Palo Alto–based Y Combinator's accelerator program to focus on building a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
earthquake unleashed a tsunami that ravaged the Tohoku region of Honshu, the largest and most populous island in Japan. Some 16,000 people were killed, hundreds of thousands displaced, and 383,000 buildings damaged-including the Fukushima Daiichi View Details