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timed experiments—like biological and chemical fields—research time slid 30 to 40 percent. Overall, 55 percent of the respondents reported a decline in total work hours, 27 percent indicated no change, and 18 percent said they were... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health

June 1993
Teaching Note

FMC Corporation A Recapitalization TN

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

Teaching Note for (9-191-084). View Details

Keywords: Chemical Industry

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June 2008 (Revised January 2014)
Teaching Note

Cook Composites and Polymers Co.

By: Deishin Lee and Michael W. Toffel

Teaching Note for [608055]. View Details

Keywords: Chemical Industry

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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. View Details

Keywords: Chemical Industry; United States

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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... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Management Teams; Product Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Conflict Management; Internet; Chemical Industry

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May 1998
Case

Negotiating the Right to Know: Rhone-Poulenc and Manchester, Texas (A-2)

By: Michael A. Wheeler

Supplements the (A1) case. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Chemical Industry; United States

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August 1992 (Revised July 2013)
Case

ChemBright, Inc.

By: Janice H. Hammond

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... View Details

Keywords: Price; Growth and Development Strategy; Logistics; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Chemical Industry; New England

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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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October 1990 (Revised February 1997)
Case

American Cyanamid

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Chemical Industry

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January 1991
Teaching Note

Responsible Care, Teaching Note

By: George C. Lodge

Teaching Note for (9-391-135). View Details

Keywords: Chemical Industry

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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. View Details

Keywords: Analysis; Supply and Industry; Chemical Industry

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22 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: November 22

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511137-PDF-ENG The K-Dow Petrochemicals Joint Venture Guhan Subramanian, James K. Sebenius, Phillip Andrews, and Rhea GhoshHarvard Business School Case 912-002 In 2007, the Dow Chemical Company... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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 chemical entities for... View Details

Keywords: by Richard G. Hamermesh; Biotechnology; Health