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- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
chemical engineering from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School. His résumé also includes stints at Disney and the Texas Pacific Group. With some $2 billion invested in more than 30 countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, Helios's focus... View Details
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
accommodate three pairs of socks, and durable enough to withstand cold weather. Doriot relied on his vast network of contacts in diverse industries as well. He recruited Monsanto and Dow Chemical Company to help create a lightweight,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
into bribery? How can CEOs manage and prevent outbreaks of corruption? These and other questions are raised by three short case studies of corruption in Germany: at the global engineering firm Siemens, the automaker VW, and the chemical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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 from textile coloration and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Harvard College, where he majored in biology, Gompers worked for a year as a research biochemist for Bayer Chemical AG before earning a master's degree in economics at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship. He completed his Ph.D. in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
and COO of Rohm and Haas, the largest specialty chemicals company in the United States. The longtime Philadelphia resident, who started his forty-year career at Rohm and Haas as an engineer, says he was ready for retirement but felt no... View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
What I Didn't Know About HBS Faculty
Khalid Alghimlas earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical and biological engineering from Colorado State University in 2011 and is a strategist and business development consultant. Khalid was born and raised in the eastern province of... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
Prisoners were housed in old stone barracks and newly constructed huts made of corrugated iron. The researchers examined the corporate archives of three German multinationals that employed the largest number of people interned in India during the two world wars:... View Details
- 1993
- Chapter
Regulating the International Trade in Hazardous Pesticides: Closing the Accountability Gap
By: L. S. Paine
Keywords: Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Accountability; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry
Paine, L. S. "Regulating the International Trade in Hazardous Pesticides: Closing the Accountability Gap." In Ethical Theory and Business. 4th ed. Edited by Norman E. Bowie and Tom L. Beauchamp, 547–556. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993. (Reprinted in The International Library of Management, Ethics in Business and Economics, vol. 2, edited by Thomas Donaldson and Thomas W. Dunfee. Aldershot, England: Dartmouth Publishing Company, Ltd., 1996.)
- October 2019
- Case
A Conversation with Ellen J. Kullman, Chairman & CEO of DuPont, 2009-2015
By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Ellen J. Kullman, the retired Chairman and CEO of DuPont, describes how she guided the storied science and technology company through a contentious proxy battle with activist investor Trian Partners, which acquired DuPont shares in 2013 and sought to break up the... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Institutional Investing; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Transformation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Will Hurwitz. "A Conversation with Ellen J. Kullman, Chairman & CEO of DuPont, 2009-2015." Harvard Business School Case 320-017, October 2019.
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
Ely says. “In fact, there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that it’s going to undermine the quality of the work.” A chemical reaction When Ely’s team suggested to the consulting firm that its employees worked an unnecessary number of hours,... View Details
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
Remember, we don't yet have the capability to serve the chemical and pharmaceutical industries here. There are still only 38 of us, and I estimate that building the support infrastructure we need just for domestic expansion could cost as... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Ralph Lauren Home shop in Filene’s. That forced me to engage with people on a new level and to convince them to spend $50 on a towel,” he says. He ultimately finished Duke and moved to New York City in 1987 to work at Chemical Bank, first... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
nonprofits and corporations can create value for society more effectively by applying strategy principles to philanthropy. Part V explores the link between strategy and leadership. Risk Frameworks and Biomonitoring: Distributed Regulation of Synthetic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 1988
- Book
Innovation and Competition: The Global Management of Petrochemical Products
By: Robert B. Stobaugh
Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry
Stobaugh, Robert B. Innovation and Competition: The Global Management of Petrochemical Products. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1988.
- August 1979 (Revised March 1994)
- Case
Union Carbide Corp.: Butane Transport
By: Roy D. Shapiro
Shapiro, Roy D. "Union Carbide Corp.: Butane Transport." Harvard Business School Case 180-017, August 1979. (Revised March 1994.)
- November 1984 (Revised March 1985)
- Case
Restructuring European Petrochemicals: ENI
By: Francis Aguilar, Joseph L. Bower and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres
Aguilar, Francis, Joseph L. Bower, and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres. "Restructuring European Petrochemicals: ENI." Harvard Business School Case 385-208, November 1984. (Revised March 1985.)
- November 1984 (Revised March 1985)
- Case
Restructuring European Petrochemicals: Royal Dutch/Shell Group
By: Francis Aguilar, Joseph L. Bower and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres
Aguilar, Francis, Joseph L. Bower, and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres. "Restructuring European Petrochemicals: Royal Dutch/Shell Group." Harvard Business School Case 385-206, November 1984. (Revised March 1985.)
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
three major cities. The first six years of my life were in Calcutta. Then we moved to Delhi, where I finished my schooling at St. Columba’s. Afterward I enrolled at IIT Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and earned a chemical... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 20 May 2019
- Blog Post
Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics
of job that could lead to.” Her parents suggested chemical engineering. “I thought it would be a good way to get through college and become self-sufficient.” At first, the plan seemed sound. An undergraduate internship with Chevron became... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail