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14.43J - Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies

14.43J/15.031J Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies (Spring 2012, MIT OCW). Instructor: Professor Richard Schmalensee. This course examines the choices and constraints regarding sources and uses of energy by households, firms, and governments through a number of frameworks to describe and explain behavior at various levels of aggregation. Examples include a wide range of countries, scope, settings, and analytical approaches. (from ocw.mit.edu)

Lecture 12 - Organizational Decision-Making: Biodiesel at MIT

This lecture features a facilitated case discussion of barriers against organizational change as present in the Biodiesel at MIT case study.


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Lecture 01 - This Course and The U.S. Energy System
Lecture 02 - Comparative Energy Systems
Lecture 03 - U.S. Energy Problems
Lecture 04 - The Market and The State
Lecture 05 - Path Dependence in Energy Systems
Lecture 06 - Climate Science and Policy
Lecture 07
Lecture 08 - Economics of Energy Demand
Lecture 09 - Energy Use by Individuals and Households
Lecture 10 - Normative Frameworks for Business Decisions
Lecture 11 - Business Decisions in Reality: CHP at Hexion
Lecture 12 - Organizational Decision-Making: Biodiesel at MIT
Lecture 13 - Developing Profitable Strategies
Lecture 14 - Innovation and Energy Business Models
Lecture 15 - Non-Renewable Energy Resources
Lecture 16 - Shale: Opportunities & Challenges
Lecture 17 - (Yesterday's &) Today's Electric Power System
Lecture 18 - Tomorrow's Electric Power System
Lecture 19 - Making Public Policy
Lecture 20 - Social Movements
Lecture 21 - U.S. Environment Policy
Lecture 22 - Economic Development & Green Growth