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India 2014: The Challenges of Governance
Iyer, Lakshmi; Vietor, Richard H.K.Case HBS-712038-EEconomicsIn January 2012, the government of India faced significant challenges to achieving three key objectives of high growth, inclusive development, and improved governance. The economy was experiencing a growth slowdown, persistently high inflation, and infrastructure and energy deficits. Policy reforms were hampered by several recent corruption scandals, widespread citizen protests against corruption, and disagreements with coalition partners. Could ...Starting at €8.20
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Low-Carbon, Indigenous Innovation in China
Vietor, Richard H.K.Case HBS-712061-EEconomicsFor the past seven years or so, the Chinese government has been powering ahead with industrial policies to promote low-carbon energy technologies-wind, solar, electric batteries and vehicles, nuclear power, and even carbon capture and sequestration. In 2009, the government focused broadly on "indigenous innovation," a policy to adopt and then develop technology in dozens of high-tech sectors. As with the earlier focus on renewables, explicit gove...Starting at €8.20
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Valero Energy Corporation and Tight Oil
Vietor, Richard H.K.; Adamson, Eric; Byrd, Aaron; Chiverton, Ned; Meier, Mariko; Rain, RobCase HBS-713083-EEconomicsTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Valero Energy, an incredibly successful US refiner, needs to make some decisions about tight oil. As production of light tight oil increases-from Eagle Ford, Bakken and elsewhere-Valero considers whether to add topping capacity to handle it, on top of its recent investments for heavy oil. Political decisions, however, are pending on Keystone XL, on crude oil exports, and on ...Starting at €8.20
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Note on Wind Energy
Maurer, Noel; Vietor, Richard H.K.Case HBS-714021-EEconomicsStarting at €8.20
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Sasol: U.S. Growth Program
Vietor, Richard H.K.Case HBS-714034-EEconomicsSasol, the world's largest producer of synthetic oil from coal and gas, has announced plans to build a huge Catalytic cracker and gas-to-liquids plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana. This $21 billion venture will be the single largest foreign direct investment in US manufacturing history. The plants, on 1,600 acres adjacent to the company's existing cracker, will liquefy 98,000 barrels daily, converting ethane to ethylene and then into various specia...Starting at €8.20
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Singapore's Mid-life Crisis
Vietor, Richard H.K.; White, HilaryCase HBS-714039-EEconomicsSince its expulsion from Malaysia in 1965, Singapore had transformed itself from a third world island nation into a vibrant city-state with one of the highest levels of GDP per capita in the world. However, sluggish demand among Singapore's major trade partners began testing the nation's export-driven growth model. It was also becoming clear that the Singaporean government could no longer focus single-mindedly on economic growth. Was Singapore fa...Starting at €8.20
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Saudi Arabia: Finding Stability after the Arab Spring
Vietor, Richard H.K.; White, HilaryCase HBS-714053-EEconomicsIn 2015, King Salman of Saudi Arabia was juggling several balls as the kingdom's new monarch. At home, there were pressures for liberalization, from women and youth, and pressures for more conservative religious observance and policy from the Muslim "ulema." His domestic economic policy, which entailed diversification, infrastructure construction, education and a move towards a "knowledge economy," remained difficult to implement because of oil's...Starting at €8.20
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NuScale Power-the Future of Small Modular Reactors
Vietor, Richard H.K.Case HBS-715004-EEntrepreneurshipNuScale Power, an entrepreneurial venture in Portland, Oregon, has designed the leading modular nuclear reactor in the United States. This Reactor will be safest and simplest ever built. Started in 2007 as an entrepreneurial venture, the company is now two years away from applying to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a License certification. While the NRC considers their application, the company will finish designing a nuclear plant to use 12...Starting at €8.20
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Colombia and the Economic Premium of Peace
Vietor, Richard H.K.; White, HilaryCase HBS-715011-EEconomicsColombia, the fastest growing country in Latin America, continues to struggle with productivity. Both labor productivity and total factor productivity have been low for the past decade, despite economic growth of 4.7% annually. Many factors contribute-everything from infrastructure, to banking, to informality. President Santos, one year into his second term, is well aware of these difficulties and has put in place new policies to mitigate them. H...Starting at €8.20
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Japan's Post-Fukushima Nuclear Energy Policy
Vietor, Richard H.K.Case HBS-716011-EEconomicsStarting at €8.20