Faculty
John Parsons is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also the CoDirector of MIT’s CANES Low Carbon Energy Center which explores new avenues for nuclear fission, and a Research Affiliate at MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.
Parsons is a financial economist specializing in risk management, corporate finance, and valuation. His research focuses on the problems of risk in energy and environment markets, the role of trading operations in energy companies, and the valuation and financing of investments in energy markets. For ten years Parsons worked in the finance practice at the economics consulting firm CRA International, where he was a vice president and principal. He worked with many major international oil companies, mining companies and commodity processors, electric utilities, and international pharmaceutical companies on a wide variety of risk management and valuation matters.
Parsons has taught on the finance faculty at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, the Zicklin School of Business at the City University of New York’s Baruch College, and the Columbia Business School.
He holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University and a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University.
Parsons, John, Working Paper. September 2009.
De Roo, Guillaume and John Parsons, Working Paper. September 2009.
Parsons, John. Journal of Applied Corporate Finance Vol. 21, No. 1 (2009): 79-86.
Xiaochun Zhang and John Parsons.
Miguel Herce, John Parsons, and Robert C. Ready.
"Nuclear, if we can do it, is a valuable contribution to the system, but we need to learn how to do it cheaper than we've done so far."
"The target here is to produce electricity cheaper than coal and gas plants."
Younger environmentalists "haven't already made up their minds about this, that, or the other technology."
"When you want to go to net zero and there are hours of the day with no sun and weeks when the wind is not blowing … nuclear becomes essential."
