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    Allen F. Jacobson

    A trained chemical engineer, Jacobson joined 3M’s Scotch tape laboratory in 1947. In his many years with 3M, he encouraged research and innovation and developed 3M’s presence in such new fields as magnetic-media. Between 1986 and 1991,... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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    Maude Hoffman

    Maude is happy to help fellow students talk through career decisions and strategies to pivot to investing, sustainability, and energy. She studied chemical engineering undergrad, but has worked in non-engineering roles at SunPower... View Details
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    Guy Kamguia

    has over 10 years of experience across engineering, strategy, investing, and operations. He enjoys leveraging his diverse professional background to help others define their career roadmaps with concrete and actionable plans. Work Experience: Villanova University... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Search Fund; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing
    • 29 Jul 2021
    • News

    A Clean Start

    Todd Brix (MBA 1997, Baker Scholar), a chemical engineer and businessman who spent 18 years at Microsoft, wanted to come up with a solution to one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: What to do with all the carbon dioxide... View Details
    • May 2014
    • Case

    Sasol: U.S. Growth Program

    By: Richard H. K. Vietor
    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
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    • 10 Mar 2011
    • What Do You Think?

    To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

    new job. In other words, is there a self-selection bias in studies of the effects of job on a person's chemical makeup? As Stephanie Smith put it, "Perhaps it's a case of either the hormones and natural adaptability of the person... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 03 Aug 2020
    • News

    A Clean Start

    help solve this environmental conundrum. A chemical engineer, Brix had spent his career at Chevron in research and technology and then at Microsoft in IoT and automation. Then, in 2017, he turned his attention toward creating a renewable... View Details
    Keywords: Maureen Harmon
    • 25 Aug 2014
    • News

    Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992

    Founder and CEO, Year Up Download Gerald Chertavian profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Lowell, Massachusetts 1987 Earns BA, Economics, Bowdoin College 1987 Joins Chemical Bank 1992 Earns MBA 1993... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young

      Jon M. Huntsman

      Beginning with a packaging company, which designed the pioneering clamshell container for McDonald’s Big Mac, Huntsman grew his business into the largest privately held diversified chemical company in North America. In addition to... View Details
      Keywords: Fabricated Goods
      • 01 Dec 2018
      • News

      Combating Climate Change

      and chemical engineering to massive questions like climate change. Last summer I visited the huge chemical plants in Freeport, Texas. It occurred to me that if these plants are running nonstop, there are... View Details
      • 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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