Publications

1984
Other Unpublished Work

Legitimizing Risk Management for Toxic Chemicals

By: Dutch Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser

Keywords: Risk Management; Chemicals; Pollutants; Chemical Industry

February 1984 (Revised February 1986)
Case

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.: Titanium Dioxide

By: W. Carl Kester, Robert R. Glauber, David W. Mullins Jr. and Stacy S. Dick

Disequilibrium in the $350 million TiO2 market has prompted Du Pont's Pigments Department to develop two strategies for competing in this market in the future. The growth strategy has a smaller internal rate of return than the alternative strategy due to large capital... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cash Flow; Investment Return; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Projects; Chemical Industry

January 1984 (Revised April 1984)
Case

Multichemical, Inc.

By: Thomas R. Piper

Keywords: Chemical Industry

May 1982
Case

Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology

By: Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Chemical Industry

July 1981
Case

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: MIS Evaluation of End-User Systems

By: James I. Cash Jr.

Keywords: Chemical Industry

June 1981 (Revised January 1997)
Case

American Cyanamid Co.

By: David E. Bell

Keywords: Chemical Industry

December 1980 (Revised January 1992)
Case

Savannah West

By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.

Allison Porter, a loan officer for Chemical Bank, must decide whether to make a construction loan on a 216-unit apartment building to be built in Savannah, Georgia. In teaching this case, one begins by looking at the economics, marketing data, etc., of the proposed... View Details

Keywords: Credit; Property; Financing and Loans; Banks and Banking; Housing; Risk Management; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Georgia (state, US)

November 1980 (Revised February 1982)
Case

Explosion in the Dover Plant

By: Robert H. Hayes

Keywords: Crisis Management; Operations; Management; Chemical Industry

March 1980 (Revised December 1995)
Case

American Chemical Corp.

By: William E. Fruhan Jr. and John P. Goldsberry III

A large chemical manufacturer divests a plant that is acquired by a small specialty chemicals manufacturer. The acquisition decision is viewed from the vantage point of the small specialty chemicals manufacturer. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Chemicals; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Decision Making; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry

November 1979
Teaching Note

Allied Chemical Corp. (B) and (C), Teaching Note

By: George C. Lodge

Teaching Note for (9-379-150) and (9-379-151). View Details

Keywords: Chemical Industry

August 1979 (Revised March 1994)
Case

Union Carbide Corp.: Butane Transport

By: Roy D. Shapiro

Keywords: Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry

March 1979 (Revised December 1982)
Case

Allied Chemical Corp. (B)

By: George C. Lodge and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Describes Allied's cooperative approach to government relations and the approach of some of the regulatory agencies Allied deals with. Based mainly on quotes from Allied and government officials. Asks the student to evaluate Allied's government relations--in general... View Details

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Cooperation; Chemical Industry

March 1979
Supplement

Allied Chemical Corp. (C)

By: George C. Lodge and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Supplements the (B) case. View Details

Keywords: Chemical Industry

February 1979 (Revised December 1983)
Case

Allied Chemical Corp. (A)

By: George C. Lodge and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Describes Allied, the chemical industry, and the effects of the Kepone problem (a toxic pesticide dumped into the James River) as of 1976. The executive in the case must decide whether the company should support the passage of the Toxic Substances Control Act and an... View Details

Keywords: Pollutants; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Making; Laws and Statutes; Welfare; Legal Liability; Business and Government Relations; Chemical Industry