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Description: This lecture introduces how economic concepts including net present value, discount rates, and time value impact energy services and the energy market. Risk-return analyses and investment strategies are also discussed. Instructor: Richard Schmalensee
Description: This lecture focuses on hydraulic cracking, or fracking, and its environmental consequences and impact on policy as seen from the perspectives of key stakeholders. Discussion includes a thought experiment about having a shale resource in Massachusetts. ...
Description: This lecture focuses on future challenges that await grid technology on the policy, economic, and technological fronts. RD&D and dynamic pricing are offered as avenues toward solutions, though the primary issues still rests in policy and regulation. ...
Description: This lecture presents the issues of time-scales and uncertainties as barriers to climate change. Three views on discounting are discussed as well as strategies for reducing global costs, adapting to new technologies, and reducing CO2 emissions. Instructor: ...
Description: The lecture focuses on how to estimate, calculate, and predict energy demand. Considerations for short-run and long-run demand are taken, and the efficiency paradox is also discussed. Instructor: Richard Schmalensee
Description: This lecture frames decisions affecting energy use as framed by social science and factors that influence decision-making. The lecture makes use of a research study conducted on towel reuse, and a class discussion of group identities. Instructor: Susan ...
Description: This lecture focuses on energy issues during the recent history of the U.S., ranging from the creation of the EPA to the problems faced by the Obama administration. A computer model is used to demonstrate projections and issues surrounding negotiations. ...
Description: This lecture focuses on the function and role of government. The video features a moderated, in-class debate regarding the Carter v. Carter Coal case taken from two different standpoints on the role of the federal government. Instructor: Richard Schmalensee
Description: This lecture focuses on path dependence and the obstacles discouraging changes in energy systems. Several examples of energy systems are given, including those unable to be changed as well as those that were changed in light of path dependence. Instructor: ...
MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Otto Scharmer on how there is mounting discontent with GDP as the main indicator of social and economic progress.
What MIT Sloan students have to say about their experiences and why they chose MIT Sloan.
Donald Rosenfield, senior lecturer and director of the Leaders for Global Operations Program, discusses innovation and variety as it relates to increasing manufacturing jobs in the U.S.
Aminata Kane, co-president of the Africa Business Club, talks about the positive environment of entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan.
The MIT Executive MBA emphasizes global leadership in three ways throughout the program, as MIT EMBA program director Jonathan Lehrich explains.
MIT EMBA program director Jonathan Lehrich describes the broad spectrum of electives available in the MIT Executive MBA.
A brief presentation by Joseph Doyle, associate professor of applied economics.
Steven Eppinger, the General Motors LGO Professor of Management, discusses the systems engineering for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner
MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Steven Spear discusses the reengineering of American health care.
Ilene Gordon ‘75, SM ’76 spoke in Wong Auditorium on March 7, 2013, about her role as chairman, president and CEO of Ingredion Inc. Gordon was the first speaker of the Dean’s Innovative Leader Series for the spring 2013 semester.
A short talk by MIT Sloan Lecturer Daena Giradella.
