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- February 2023
- Case
Ronald Reagan: Changing the World
By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
This case traces the rise of Ronald Reagan from small town Illinois to two-term president of the United States. An unlikely candidate for the world’s most powerful job, the case describes the different roles that Reagan filled over his life: radio announcer, Hollywood...
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- 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
Weiss, Jurgen, and Richard H.K. Vietor. "NuScale—Commercializing the First Small Modular Reactor in the World." Harvard Business School Case 721-047, May 2021. (Revised February 2022.)
- 2019
- Report
U.S. Nuclear Energy Leadership: Innovation and the Strategic Global Challenge
Throughout 2018, the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center convened a “Task Force on US Nuclear Energy Leadership,” which comprised civilian and military experts in foreign policy, defense, and nuclear energy. Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)...
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Keywords:
Nuclear Energy;
Environment;
Energy Sources;
Energy;
Energy Generation;
Energy Conservation;
Energy Policy;
Global Range;
Energy Industry
"U.S. Nuclear Energy Leadership: Innovation and the Strategic Global Challenge." Report, Atlantic Council, 2019.
- March 2019
- Supplement
Accounting for Nuclear Power Provisions at RWE, Instructor Spreadsheet
By: Jonas Heese
- March 2019
- Supplement
Accounting for Nuclear Power Provisions at RWE, Student Spreadsheet
By: Jonas Heese
- January 2019
- Teaching Note
Iran on the Brink: The Nuclear Deal and the Future of the Islamic Republic
By: Jeremy Friedman
Keywords:
Iran
- October 2018
- 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...
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Keywords:
Citizen Science;
Creative Commons;
Open Data;
Open Architecture;
Volunteer-based Organization;
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Facility;
311;
Nuclear;
Radiation;
Crowdsourcing;
Bgeigie;
Geiger Counters;
Kickstarter;
Sustainability;
Sustainable Business And Innovation;
Design;
Energy Generation;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Human Capital;
Innovation and Invention;
Crisis Management;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Design;
Information Technology;
Business Model;
Energy Industry;
Technology Industry;
Japan;
North and Central America;
Europe
- 2018
- Book
Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level
By: James K. Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns and Robert H. Mnookin (with a forward by Henry A. Kissinger)
As professors and practitioners with careers devoted to negotiation, we are often asked “Who are the world’s best negotiators? What makes them effective?” Inevitably Henry Kissinger’s name comes up as an elite, if controversial, negotiator from whom we can learn a...
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Keywords:
History;
Negotiation Process;
Negotiation Tactics;
Personal Development and Career;
Negotiation Style;
United States
Sebenius, James K., R. Nicholas Burns, and Robert H. Mnookin (with a forward by Henry A. Kissinger). Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level. New York: HarperCollins, 2018.
- January 2018
- Case
Blue Harbour's Activism at Babcock & Wilcox
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Quinn Pitcher
The case describes Blue Harbour Group's investment in Babcock & Wilcox and its transformation into BWX Technologies. In 2004, activist hedge fund Blue Harbour Group invested in Babcock & Wilcox, an energy and construction company. Blue Harbour developed an investment...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Investment Activism;
Leading Change;
Energy Industry;
Construction Industry;
United States
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Quinn Pitcher. "Blue Harbour's Activism at Babcock & Wilcox." Harvard Business School Case 118-045, January 2018.
- 2018
- Report
The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study
The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World study is the eighth in the MIT Energy Initiative’s "Future of" series, which aims to shed light on a range of complex and important issues involving energy and the environment. A central theme is...
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Keywords:
Nuclear Energy;
Carbon Emissions;
Environment;
Environmental Sustainability;
Energy;
Energy Policy;
Energy Sources
"The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study." "Future of" Series, MIT Energy Initiative, Cambridge, MA, 2018.
- December 2017
- Teaching Note
Accounting for Nuclear Power Provisions at RWE
By: Jonas Heese
Teaching Note for HBS No. 118-013.
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- August 2017 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
Accounting for Nuclear Power Provisions at RWE
By: Paul Healy and Jonas Heese
In early 2016, RWE, a utility that operates nuclear power plants in Germany, came under scrutiny from regulators and the media over the adequacy of its provisions for costs of decommissioning and dismantling (D&D) its nuclear power plants. Accounting standards required...
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Keywords:
Liabilities;
Provisions For Long-term Obligations;
Discounting;
Accounting;
Energy Generation;
Energy Industry;
Germany
Healy, Paul, and Jonas Heese. "Accounting for Nuclear Power Provisions at RWE." Harvard Business School Case 118-013, August 2017. (Revised December 2017.)
- March 2017 (Revised November 2017)
- Case
Iran on the Brink: The Nuclear Deal and the Future of the Islamic Republic
By: Jeremy Friedman
Friedman, Jeremy. "Iran on the Brink: The Nuclear Deal and the Future of the Islamic Republic." Harvard Business School Case 717-038, March 2017. (Revised November 2017.)
- January 2017 (Revised December 2020)
- Case
Turkey and Russia: Dangerous Liaisons
By: Rawi Abdelal, Esel Çekin, Eren Kuzucu and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in November 2015, after the Turkish military’s shooting down of a Russian military airplane over the Turkish-Syrian border. The incident threatened to undermine the countries’ political and economic ties, and starting from late 2015, the dialogue between...
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Keywords:
Business & Government Relations;
Politics;
Natural Gas;
Natural Resources;
Nuclear Power;
Business and Government Relations;
Energy Policy;
Infrastructure;
Energy;
Strategy;
International Relations;
Russia;
Turkey
Abdelal, Rawi, Esel Çekin, Eren Kuzucu, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Turkey and Russia: Dangerous Liaisons." Harvard Business School Case 717-035, January 2017. (Revised December 2020.)
- September 2016
- Teaching Note
Nuclear Energy: An Answer to Climate Change?
By: Michael W. Toffel and Glen W. S. Dowell
This case asks students to take the perspective of a nuclear energy industry association whose objective is convincing politicians and the public about the merits of its industry. The association is considering whether to approach environmental nongovernmental...
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- February 2016 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Nuclear Energy: An Answer to Climate Change?
By: Michael W. Toffel, Glen W. S. Dowell and James Weber
Environmental activist groups have traditionally opposed nuclear energy. However, the growing environmental problems associated with global climate change require major changes to reduce the carbon intensity of electricity generation. Should environmental groups...
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Keywords:
Nuclear Energy;
Nuclear Power;
Climate Change;
Safety;
Activism;
Nonprofit;
Environment;
Environmental Protection;
Social Movements;
Energy;
Energy Generation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Non-Renewable Energy;
Energy Industry;
United States
Toffel, Michael W., Glen W. S. Dowell, and James Weber. "Nuclear Energy: An Answer to Climate Change?" Harvard Business School Case 616-052, February 2016. (Revised October 2017.)
- 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...
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Keywords:
Nuclear;
Nuclear Energy;
Nuclear Power;
Energy Markets;
New Nuclear;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Entrepreneurial Marketing;
Business & Government Relations;
Off-grid;
Energy;
Renewable Energy;
Energy Generation;
Energy Sources;
Entrepreneurship;
Marketing;
Business and Government Relations;
Energy Industry;
Utilities Industry;
United States
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, William A. Sahlman, and Liz Kind. "UPower Technologies Inc." Harvard Business School Case 816-054, October 2015. (Revised January 2017.)
- August 2015
- Case
Japan's Post-Fukushima Nuclear Energy Policy
By: Richard Vietor
Vietor, Richard. "Japan's Post-Fukushima Nuclear Energy Policy." Harvard Business School Case 716-011, August 2015.
- 2015
- Report
The Iran Nuclear Deal: A Definitive Guide
By: Gary Samore, Graham T. Allison, Aaron Arnold, Matthew Bunn, Nicholas Burns, Shai Feldman, Chuck Freilich, Olli Heinonen, Martin B. Malin, Steven E. Miller, Payam Mohseni, Richard Nephew, Laura Rockwood, James K. Sebenius and William Tobey
This report on a comprehensive nuclear agreement with Iran—the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) provides a concise description of the agreement and the accompanying UN Security Council Resolution 2231. It also includes a balanced assessment of the agreement's...
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Samore, Gary, Graham T. Allison, Aaron Arnold, Matthew Bunn, Nicholas Burns, Shai Feldman, Chuck Freilich, Olli Heinonen, Martin B. Malin, Steven E. Miller, Payam Mohseni, Richard Nephew, Laura Rockwood, James K. Sebenius, and William Tobey., ed. "The Iran Nuclear Deal: A Definitive Guide." Report, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, August 2015.
- Article
Ignore June 30: Time is on the Side of a Better Iran Deal
Prior to the "interim deal" reached in November 2013, Iranian nuclear negotiators could—and did—play for time while the regime rapidly added more centrifuges and increased production of enriched uranium. That is no longer the case. For the first time in years, the...
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Keywords:
International Relations;
Negotiation Tactics;
Negotiation Deal;
Iran;
United States;
Iran;
United States
Sebenius, James K. "Ignore June 30: Time is on the Side of a Better Iran Deal." Iran Matters (June 28, 2015).