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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

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

29 Jul 2021
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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

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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

27 Apr 2021
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There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS

hosted at my school. I learned that chemical engineers create fragrances, lotions, and my favorite, skincare. It was the best of both worlds, science and beauty. I knew immediately I wanted to pursue View Details

Lucio A. Noto

Noto first concentrated on consolidating and improving efficiency in Mobil's oil, gas and chemical businesses, including trimming bureaucracy at the corporate level. Noto also revamped Mobil's retail gasoline business, being one of the... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

Horace Bowker

Bowker took the helm of American Agricultural Chemical during a bleak period in America’s economy. Despite the Depression, Bowker led the company to double its profitability during the 1930’s by diversifying beyond fertilizers and into... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture & Mining

Tomás Hudson

Keywords: Chemicals

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

01 Dec 2018
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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

25 Aug 2014
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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

Walter V. Shipley

company. His skills as a manager helped Chemical successfully complete two large mergers in 1991 and 1996, the latter of which involved the purchase of Chase Manhattan, the name under which Chemical now... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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Michael Cheng | MBA

chemical company dumping untreated mercury into the water, but industry-funded researchers from one of Japan's most prestigious universities sowed doubts, and the victims did not prevail in court until 1973. The fast-growing View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Managing the Map

We are at the dawn of a new epoch in the world of science, one that will cast strong light on a unique corner of the biotechnology field known as genomics. The designation refers to the study of genes, those chemical building blocks of... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

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)
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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
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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)
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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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