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- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
themselves and new industries will grow. The number-one priority is to change the competition laws and the whole approach to regulating competition. Without competitive pressures, sick industries will never restructure. Until Japan stops protecting industries such as...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
Carson and the New Yorker magazine, which had published the work in its entirety over three issues. During the summer of 1962, Carson’s critics initiated a series of counterattacks, with the chemical industry leading the charge. The...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
to Cabot Corporation, a specialty chemicals firm, where he is general manager of the Performance Products Business Group. He believes his Taiwan experience demonstrated his ability to adapt quickly in new situations, making his new...
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- June 1993
- Teaching Note
FMC Corporation A Recapitalization TN
By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Julie H. Hertenstein
Teaching Note for (9-191-084).
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Chemical Industry
- June 2008 (Revised January 2014)
- Teaching Note
Cook Composites and Polymers Co.
By: Deishin Lee and Michael W. Toffel
Teaching Note for [608055].
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Chemical Industry
- December 2001
- Case
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company: The Conoco Split-off (C)
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Perry Fagan
Supplements the (A) case.
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Gilson, Stuart C., and Perry Fagan. "E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company: The Conoco Split-off (C)." Harvard Business School Case 202-007, December 2001.
- November 2000 (Revised June 2010)
- Case
Bush Boake Allen
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade
Bush Boake Allen, a flavor and fragrance firm, is considering strategic options that would integrate customers into its innovation process via a potentially disruptive Internet-based technology. As this approach could result in dramatic changes to the firm's business...
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Customer Focus and Relationships;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technological Innovation;
Management Teams;
Product Design;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Conflict Management;
Internet;
Chemical Industry
Thomke, Stefan H., and Ashok Nimgade. "Bush Boake Allen." Harvard Business School Case 601-061, November 2000. (Revised June 2010.)
- May 1998
- Case
Negotiating the Right to Know: Rhone-Poulenc and Manchester, Texas (A-2)
Supplements the (A1) case. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
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Wheeler, Michael A. "Negotiating the Right to Know: Rhone-Poulenc and Manchester, Texas (A-2)." Harvard Business School Case 898-258, May 1998.
- August 1992 (Revised July 2013)
- Case
ChemBright, Inc.
ChemBright is a small start-up company that manufactures private-label household chemicals. The company sells its products to grocery chains in the New England area. Its strategy is based on a significant logistics-based cost advantage. The primary case decisions are...
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Price;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Logistics;
Competition;
Competitive Advantage;
Chemical Industry;
New England
Hammond, Janice H. "ChemBright, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 693-026, August 1992. (Revised July 2013.)
- November 1998 (Revised December 1998)
- Case
Monsanto Company: Delivering on the Vision of Life Sciences
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Srinivas Sunder
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Chemical Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Srinivas Sunder. "Monsanto Company: Delivering on the Vision of Life Sciences." Harvard Business School Case 599-067, November 1998. (Revised December 1998.)
- October 1990 (Revised February 1997)
- Case
American Cyanamid
By: Ray A. Goldberg
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Chemical Industry
Goldberg, Ray A. "American Cyanamid." Harvard Business School Case 591-043, October 1990. (Revised February 1997.)
- January 1991
- Teaching Note
Responsible Care, Teaching Note
By: George C. Lodge
Teaching Note for (9-391-135).
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Chemical Industry
- November 1989 (Revised August 1994)
- Supplement
Du Pont's Titanium Dioxide Business (C)
Provides students the opportunity to track industry evolution over time, to explore the role that signaling may play in such evolution, and to construct and validate industry scenarios.
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Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Du Pont's Titanium Dioxide Business (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 390-115, November 1989. (Revised August 1994.)
- 05 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
textiles that could bypass the toxic chemical dying and unsustainable materials sourcing of todays textiles industry. SpaceSense: A platform designed to help geospatial data scientists and developers build AI solutions faster, easier and...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
Terceros, HBX Live participant, chemical engineering administrator “HBX Live felt like a real classroom, or even like an enhanced classroom. The experience is so well designed and supported that I felt like I was sitting in the same room...
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Irving S. Shapiro
Initially making a name for himself in politics, Shapiro joined duPont in 1951 as a lawyer, handling some of its most important acquisitions and antitrust cases. His negotiating skills, coupled with his extensive political connections, later earned him the title of...
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Chemicals & Industrial
Edward G. Jefferson
Jefferson is credited with streamlining duPont’s operations and diversifying its portfolio – setting the stage for a new era in the company’s history. His purchase of Conoco in 1981 dramatically changed the duPont landscape providing a ready supply of oil and gas for...
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Chemicals & Industrial
Pierre S. du Pont
duPont headed the duPont Corporation during the period of the first World War. During duPont’s presidency, the corporation was greatly expanded in order to meet munitions orders from the United States and Allied countries. duPont increased the company’s munitions...
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Chemicals & Industrial
Camille Dreyfus
Celanese Corporation showed a profit every year after 1925 with its breakthrough year coming in 1939. The company grew by 700% from 1929-1939. By 1940, Dreyfus held 233 patents in the U.S., most of which were concerned with the production of celluloid acetate, and...
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Chemicals & Industrial
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
markets in large systems outside the United States. Never has a single deal so formidably shaped a major national industry. What themes will you explore in your next book? Originally I had conceived of writing a single volume devoted to the consumer electronics and...
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