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Richard Vietor

Richard H.K. Vietor

Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration

 Office: Morgan Hall 285 
 Email: rvietor@hbs.edu
 Web:  http://people.hbs.edu/rvietor/
Research Interests:

International energy issues; regulation of natural gas, nuclear power, air pollution, and hazardous wastes; strategy and deregulation in airlines, railroads, telecommunications; financial services; renewable energy; low-carbon energy sources

Related Publications:
  • Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms: Perspectives from Law, Economics, and Business (Resources for the Future, 2005)
  • (with F.L. Reinhardt and Fiona Murray) "Foreign Firms in the Chinese Power Sector: Economic and Environmental Impacts." In Energizing China: Reconciling Environmental Protection and Economic Growth, edited by M. McElroy, C. Nielsen and P. Lydon. Cambridge: Harvard University Committee on Environment, 1998.
  • (with F.L. Reinhardt) Business Management and the Natural Environment: Cases and Texts (Southwestern Publishing Company, 1996)
  • Contrived Competition: Regulation and Deregulation in America (Harvard University Press, 1994)
  • Energy Policy in America Since 1945: A Study of Business-Government Relations (Cambridge University Press, 1984)


Harvard Business School Cases:
A123 Systems: Power. Safety. Life.  711-066.
AEP: Carbon Capture and Storage.  711-036.
Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Energy in the USA.  708-022.
Duke Energy and the Nuclear Renaissance.  712-002.
Low-Carbon, Indigenous Innovation in China.  712-061.
Suntech Power.  710-013.
The Suzlon Edge.  708-051.

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