Rate My Professor Jacquelyn Pless

Pless's research focuses on innovation economics, energy and environmental economics, strategic management, and climate finance, examining how firms and policymakers foster innovation for social progress, particularly in energy and environmental areas, including firm responses to externality interdependencies. Key publications include "Pass-Through as a Test for Market Power: An Application to Solar Subsidies" (American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019), "Bringing rigour to energy innovation policy evaluation" (Nature Energy, 2020), "Are ‘Complementary Policies’ Substitutes? Evidence from R&D Subsidies in the UK" (forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy), "Can Digitalization Improve Public Services? Evidence from Innovation in Energy Management" (forthcoming, Management Science, with Robyn Meeks and Zhenxuan Wang), and "To Starve or to Stoke? Understanding Whether Divestment versus Investment Can Steer (Green) Innovation" (Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy, 2023). Her honors include Poets & Quants Best 40-Under-40 Business School Professor (2024), Kenan Institute Distinguished Research Fellow on Stakeholder Capitalism and ESG Investing (2022), Marie Curie Fellowship (2018), Finalist for Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award in Energy and Climate Economics (2020), and Finalist for IAEE Best Student Paper Award (2014). She is a Research Affiliate of CESifo, Honorary Research Associate at the University of Oxford, Faculty Affiliate of MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research and Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, and teaches courses on innovation strategy, entrepreneurship, and climate and energy ventures.