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October 2015 (Revised January 2017)
Case
UPower Technologies Inc.
By:
Joseph B. Lassiter III
,
William A. Sahlman
and Liz Kind
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 "mini" nuclear reactor that would produce...
February 2015 (Revised June 2016)
Case
Solar Geoengineering
By:
Joseph B. Lassiter III
and Stephanie Puzio
On December 8th 2013, as Dr. David Keith was leaving the set of the Colbert Show, he couldn't help but replay the interview over and over in his mind. Did he actually get his point of view on solar geoengineering across or had he just added to the stereotype that he...
January 2015 (Revised August 2015)
Teaching Material
Climate Change: An Unfolding Story
By:
Joseph B. Lassiter III
, Sid Misra and Stephanie Puzio
In some parts of the world, the impacts of climate change will prove to be relatively manageable, particularly for the rich. In some parts of the world, these will not, particularly for the poor. The only certainty is that humanity's collective actions will force every...
August 2014 (Revised May 2016)
Case
Husk Power
By:
Joseph B. Lassiter III
and Sid Misra
In late 2013, Husk Power Systems found itself falling further and further behind plan. The founding CEO had decided to resign. His co-founder is faced with the decision of quitting his corporate job in the US to head to India and help form a new management team. Husk...
October 2013 (Revised November 2016)
Case
Carbon
Engineering
By:
Joseph B. Lassiter III
and Sid Misra
Dr. David Keith, President of Carbon Engineering, a company based in Calgary, Alberta, is commercializing a technology to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. The company plans to market the captured CO2 to produce low carbon transportation fuels in...
March 2013 (Revised March 2014)
Case
C12
Energy
By:
Joseph B. Lassiter III
and James McQuade
C12 aimed to build not only a company, but an entire industry around carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). "You change the world by building a market, and you build a market by building a profitable company that other people copy," said Dawe, C12 Energy's CEO. "In...
November 2012 (Revised December 2017)
Cases with Notes
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...
March 2012
Cases with Notes
1366
Technologies
:
Scaling
the
Venture
(
Abridged
)
By:
Joseph B. Lassiter III
,
Ramana Nanda
, Evan Richardson and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
October 2011 (Revised November 2011)
Cases with Notes
Verengo
Solar
Plus
!
By:
William A. Sahlman
,
Joseph B. Lassiter III
and Liz Kind
In the three years since Bishop and Button purchased Verengo in a leveraged buyout (LBO), the company had gone through dramatic changes. Initially a residential windows and insulation firm, after the economic recession of 2008 the company switched gears and began...
September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
Case
Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Gain Liquidity
By:
Joseph B. Lassiter III
,
William A. Sahlman
, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Evan Richardson
Samir Kaul, a Partner at Khosla Ventures, looked out his office window. It was late June, 2011, and like almost every day in Menlo Park, the sun was shining. Kaul was reflecting on what had been a very positive 10 months in the venture capital business. Over that span,...
April 2011
Teaching Material
U.S. Department of Energy & Recovery Act Funding: Bridging the "Valley of Death" (TN)
By:
Ramana Nanda
,
Joseph B. Lassiter III
and Michael J. Roberts
Teaching Note for 810144.
March 2011 (Revised April 2018)
Case
1366 Technologies: Scaling the Venture
By:
Joseph B. Lassiter III
,
Ramana Nanda
, David Kiron and Evan Richardson
For some time, 1366's co-founders, Frank van Mierlo and Ely Sachs, had faced a choice, which was now made all the more stark: 1366 could expand to produce silicon wafers itself, raising the required capital from "friendly" investors and building shipment volume slowly,...
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