Chemicals and glass - Publications - Faculty & Research

June 1993
Teaching Note

FMC Corporation A Recapitalization TN

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Julie H. Hertenstein

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Keywords: Chemical Industry

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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

Keywords: Chemical Industry

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09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

Would-be innovators know that one of their biggest challenges is systematically identifying the innovations with the greatest likelihood of creating disruptive growth. Pick the wrong one, and squander a year or more of focus View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

June 1988 (Revised February 1989)
Case

Union Carbide Deal, The

By: Dwight B. Crane and Robert G. Eccles Jr.

Keywords: Chemical Industry

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May 2004 (Revised August 2004)
Case

Ultra: The Quest for Leadership (C)

By: Dwight B. Crane and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Chemical Industry; Brazil

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May 2004 (Revised August 2004)
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Ultra: The Quest for Leadership (B)

By: Dwight B. Crane and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Chemical Industry; Brazil

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28 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

Based on surveys gathered from 140 employees in a division of a global chemical company, we found that direct knowledge and reflected knowledge enhanced trust differentially. While both enhanced feelings of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 14

chemical company, is in the midst of the first use of a new zero-base budgeting system. The general manager of the division leading the process is experiencing disagreement and conflict among the members of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 1985 (Revised January 1990)
Case

Dow Indonesia (B2)

By: James E. Austin, Dennis J. Encarnation III and Louis T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Chemical Industry; Indonesia

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July 1985 (Revised February 1986)
Case

Dow Indonesia (A)

By: James E. Austin, Dennis J. Encarnation III and Louis T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Chemical Industry; Indonesia

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28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

over-application and excess chemicals leaching into water systems. Wet processing is also particularly impactful. The World Bank estimates that 17–20 percent of industrial water pollution worldwide comes... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

05 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

offices. Here's my proposal: I ask that the Association of University Technology Managers establish a set of standards, balancing public interests and private incentives, that would encourage the development of new View Details

Keywords: by Richard G. Hamermesh; Biotechnology; Health

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

firms share a type of commons. We theorize that the need to protect this commons can motivate the formation of a self-regulatory institution. Using data from the US chemical industry, we find that spillover harm from industrial accidents... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 25

Biglari initiates a proxy fight in an attempt to win a board position and change the direction of Cracker Barrel's strategy. Two leading proxy advisory firms, ISS and Glass... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

"business is an extraordinary force for good." While Nohria earned a chemical engineering degree from prestigious IIT Bombay, he harbored a dream of becoming an entrepreneur even as he applied to a doctoral program at MIT. At... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

November 1984 (Revised March 1985)
Case

Restructuring European Petrochemicals: ENI

By: Francis Aguilar, Joseph L. Bower and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres

Keywords: Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Europe

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November 1984 (Revised March 1985)
Case

Restructuring European Petrochemicals: Royal Dutch/Shell Group

By: Francis Aguilar, Joseph L. Bower and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres

Keywords: Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Europe

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December 2014 (Revised January 2018)
Case

Yara International: Africa Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer, Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Kerry Herman

Leading fertilizer producer Yara International demonstrates the concept of creating shared value through the Southern Agricultural Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) initiative, which brought together multiple organizations to enhance agricultural development in rural... View Details

Keywords: Shared Value; Tanzania; Agriculture Reform; Value Creation; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Tanzania

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19 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 19

explosive growth in working capital. At the end of 2009, the company was awarded the United States distributorship for the specialty chemical di-isononyl phthalate (DINP) from a large Taiwanese producer and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne