Skip to Main Content
HBS Home
  • About
  • Academic Programs
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Research
  • Baker Library
  • Giving
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Initiatives
  • News
  • Recruit
  • Map / Directions
Faculty & Research
  • Faculty
  • Research
  • Featured Topics
  • Academic Units
  • …→
  • Harvard Business School→
  • Faculty & Research→
Publications
Publications
  • May 2002 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case
  • HBS Case Collection

Yangcheng: AES in China

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
  • Format:Print
  • | Pages:30
ShareBar

Abstract

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 construction is completed. The decision point is whether AES should explore issues of foreign direct investment as they pertain to the environment. Do U.S. MNCs run operations abroad at the same level of environmental efficacy as in their home country? If not, why not? And what are the local barriers and competitive reasons for not doing so?

Keywords

Energy Generation; Joint Ventures; Foreign Direct Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Problems and Challenges; Energy Industry; China

Citation

Vietor, Richard H.K. "Yangcheng: AES in China." Harvard Business School Case 702-006, May 2002. (Revised August 2006.)
  • Find it at Harvard

About The Author

Richard H.K. Vietor

Business, Government and the International Economy
→More Publications

More from the Author

    • October 2021
    • Faculty Research

    Deficits and Debt: The U.S. Current Account

    By: Laura Alfaro and Richard Vietor
    • September 2021
    • Faculty Research

    Italy - 'Whatever It Takes'

    By: Richard H.K. Vietor, Dante Roscini and Cecile Gambardella
    • May 2021 (Revised February 2022)
    • Faculty Research

    NuScale - Commercializing the first small modular reactor in the world

    By: Jurgen Weiss and Richard H.K. Vietor
More from the Author
  • Deficits and Debt: The U.S. Current Account By: Laura Alfaro and Richard Vietor
  • Italy - 'Whatever It Takes' By: Richard H.K. Vietor, Dante Roscini and Cecile Gambardella
  • NuScale - Commercializing the first small modular reactor in the world By: Jurgen Weiss and Richard H.K. Vietor
ǁ
Campus Map
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
→Map & Directions
→More Contact Information
  • Make a Gift
  • Site Map
  • Jobs
  • Harvard University
  • Trademarks
  • Policies
  • Digital Accessibility
Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College