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Energy Price Shocks and Macroeconomic Adjustment

By: Julio J. Rotemberg and Robert Pindyck

Keywords: Energy; Price; System Shocks; Macroeconomics

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August 2008 (Revised July 2009)
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Gazprom (A): Energy and Strategy in Russian History

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Sogomon Tarontsi and Alexander Jorov

Critics have accused Gazprom, the world's largest natural gas producer, of eschewing market principles in favor of the foreign policy priorities of the Russian government, ever since the energy giant cut off the supply to Ukraine in January of 2006. The purported... View Details

Keywords: History; International Relations; Trade; Energy Industry; Russia; Soviet Union; Ukraine; Europe

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June 2009
Case

Midland Energy Resources, Inc.: Cost of Capital

By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Joel L. Heilprin

The senior vice president of project finance for a global oil and gas company must determine the weighted average cost of capital for the company as a whole and each of its divisions as part of the annual capital budgeting process. The case uses comparable companies to... View Details

Keywords: Risk Assessment; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Cost of Capital; Cash Flow; Capital Structure; Valuation; Capital Budgeting; Energy Industry

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21 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax

across the country. During the “IFC: Immersive Field Course,” HBS students had the opportunity to visit the site of a rooftop solar facility in Bangalore, India. The solar site is deployed and managed by CleanMax, the largest B2B provider of renewable View Details

Changing Behavior Beyond the Here and Now

In this chapter we explore the behavioral science of how interventions work over time. We first discuss how interventions can be effective and generate desired target behaviors, even when there is a temporal gap between the time the intervention is administered and... View Details

1994
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Energy Taxes and Aggregate Economic Activity

By: J. J. Rotemberg and Michael Woodford

Keywords: Taxation; Economics

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03 Dec 2013

Energy & Environment Prospective Student Webinar

This online information session will highlight the resources available to students coming from or who are interested in pursuing a career in energy, clean tech and environment-related industries. There will be a brief presentation followed by a panel discussion.... View Details

November 2023
Article

Coalition Cascades: The Politics of Tipping Points in Clean Energy Transitions

By: Jonas Meckling and Nicholas Goedeking

Policy change often involves multiple policy subsystems, as in the case of clean energy transitions. We argue that trans- subsystem policy feedback is a central dynamic in policy change across subsystems. Policy in one subsystem creates ... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Transition; Energy Sources; System

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11 Jun 2015
News

U.S. Is Wasting Its Energy Advantage, New Paper Argues

17 Feb 2015
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Oil Plunge Sends Energy Workers Back to Business School

18 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

When It Comes to Climate Regulation, Energy Companies Take a More Nuanced View

Common wisdom holds that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other industries known for their large carbon emissions generally oppose clean energy policies. Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible... View Details

Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Utilities

20 Nov 2024
Podcast

Using AI to Optimize Energy Demand

In this episode, host Mike Toffel speaks with Pasi Miettinen, CEO of Sagewell, a company that uses AI to help utilities and their customers manage energy demand efficiently. Pasi explains how Sagewell’s technology helps reduce peak electricity usage, which in turn... View Details

04 Dec 2008
News

Blocking Online Ads May Save Energy

06 Jun 2014
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Alternative Fuel Changing the Energy Industry

Keywords: Diesel; Power Solutions International; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

1 Dec 2010
Panel Discussion

Venture Capital Investments in Clean Energy

By: Ramana Nanda

Keywords: Energy; Energy Industry; Energy Industry

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September 2011 (Revised February 2014)
Case

Duke Energy and the Nuclear Renaissance

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Forest L. Reinhardt

Duke Energy, an American investor-owned electric utility, confronts multibillion dollar decisions about its future fuel mix. In particular, its leaders are considering building new nuclear capacity. Whether this is sensible depends, among other things, on demand... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Expansion; Policy; Business Strategy; Energy Sources; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United States

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2021
Working Paper

Saving for a Dry Day: Coal, Dams, and the Energy Transition

By: Michele Fioretti and Jorge Tamayo

Renewable generation creates a tradeoff between current and future energy production as generators produce energy by releasing previously stored resources. Studying the Colombian market, we find that diversified firms strategically substitute fossil fuels for... View Details

Keywords: Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Production; Green Technology Industry; Energy Industry; Colombia

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