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Herbert H. Dow
Dow Chemicals began by producing bleaching powder as its main product. Through Dow’s inventiveness, Dow Chemical expanded dramatically, especially with the discovery of many uses for brine. Dow manufactured... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
Thomas W. Mastin
Mastin was instrumental in the development and commercialization of many of Lubrizol’s products, the world’s largest manufacturer of chemical additives for lubricants. Mastin was a published chemist who held over 20 patents for new View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
Orlando F. Weber
Weber and an associate pooled their resources to merge several small chemical companies into one conglomerate that came be known as Allied Chemical. Weber maintained stability at the chemical company... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 1985
- Chapter
Restructuring Petrochemicals: A Comparative Study of Business and Government Strategy to Deal with a Declining Sector of the Economy
By: Joseph L. Bower
Bower, Joseph L. "Restructuring Petrochemicals: A Comparative Study of Business and Government Strategy to Deal with a Declining Sector of the Economy." In U.S. Competitiveness in the World Economy, edited by Bruce R. Scott and George C. Lodge. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1985.
Otto Haas
Along with chemist Otto Rohm, Haas founded one of the world’s largest specialty chemical producers. Under his leadership, Rohm and Haas discovered two major products that have had a significant impact on business and society – Plexiglas... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
Morse G. Dial
Dial was instrumental in the growth and diversification of Union Carbide. He strongly supported research and development, and it was with this foresight that Union Carbide was able to become a leading producer of chemicals and plastics. View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
James R. Kuse
Mortgaging his home in 1984, Kuse, along with a few other executives from Georgia Pacific, financed a leveraged buy-out to create Georgia Gulf Corporation, a major producer of specialty chemical products. Under his leadership, Kuse not... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
Edgar M. Queeny
Queeny assumed control of his father John's company with just $12 million in assets, but under his leadership, Monsanto Chemical expanded into a leading chemical manufacturer. While Queeny was chairman, the... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
Walter S. Carpenter, Jr.
Carpenter was only the second man not of the duPont name in the 145-year history of the company to have been elected president. Carpenter expanded duPont to include diversified chemical lines and grew sales to more than $650 million. View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
John F. Queeny
When base-chemical shipments stopped coming from Germany during World War I, Queeny kept his company afloat by transforming it into its own raw materials producer. By the time of his death, Monsanto had grown into a diversified chemical... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
William B. Bell
Bell diversified American Cyanamid, developing the company into the 5th largest producer of chemicals in the U.S., manufacturing over 5,000 products. Bell developed new processes for the commercial production of prussiate of soda,... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
Elon H. Hooker
Hooker was the founder of one of the first electrochemical plants in the U.S. at Niagara Falls, N.Y. - a major producer of chemicals and plastics. He was ranked as one of the leading American figures in the field of View Details
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Willard H. Dow
Dow grew the company his father had founded through acquisitions and mergers. He acquired a 75% interest in Midland Ammonia in 1930, partnered with Ethyl Gas in 1933, joined with Cleveland-Cliffs Iron in 1935, and acquired the Great Western Electro-Chemical Company... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- November 1989 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
Du Pont's Titanium Dioxide Business (A)
This case series is a vehicle for examining the strategic logic and risks of preemption. Rewritten versions of earlier cases. View Details
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Du Pont's Titanium Dioxide Business (A)." Harvard Business School Case 390-112, November 1989. (Revised April 2004.)
- December 2012 (Revised November 2014)
- Case
W.R. Grace & Co.: Dealing with Asbestos Torts
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
A manufacturer of building products and specialty chemicals, W. R. Grace & Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 in response to a flood of lawsuits alleging that its products contained asbestos, and had caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy Reorganization; Business Failures; Environmental Regulations; Class Action Lawsuits; Natural Environment; Valuation; Health Disorders; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Lawsuits and Litigation; Chemicals; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Legal Liability; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; United States
Gilson, Stuart C., and Sarah L. Abbott. "W.R. Grace & Co.: Dealing with Asbestos Torts." Harvard Business School Case 213-046, December 2012. (Revised November 2014.)
- September 2008
- Teaching Note
Chi Mei Optoelectronics (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for [608-123]. View Details
- May 2014
- Case
Sasol: U.S. Growth Program
Sasol, the world's largest producer of synthetic oil from coal and gas, has announced plans to build a huge Catalytic cracker and gas-to-liquids plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana. This $21 billion venture will be the single largest foreign direct investment in US... View Details
Keywords: Oil ＆ Gas; Risk; Risk And Uncertainty; Petroleum; Synthesis; Diesel; Foreign Direct Investment; Chemicals; Strategy; Energy Industry; United States
Vietor, Richard H. K. "Sasol: U.S. Growth Program." Harvard Business School Case 714-034, May 2014.
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General File - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile Industry Caterpillar... View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
Abstract—This working paper examines the growth of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. German business has been regarded as pioneering corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
producers, and thus worthy of slapping with 25 percent or higher penalties as they come in the country. The first three pages were chemicals and medical products, and as a one-time chemist I was surprised to see what the US was aiming to... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications