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  • December 2003 (Revised September 2005)
  • Case

Rein Chemical Company: Specialty Division

By: Francis Aguilar
This case describes corporate management's recent discovery of widespread unethical pricing transactions in one division and key managers' different views on how to respond. Students are asked to evaluate management's position and decide who should do what to resolve... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Price; Ethics; Business Divisions; Chemicals; Crisis Management; Chemical Industry
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  • November 2012 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Restructuring at Nova Chemical Corporation (Abridged)

By: Scott P. Mason
Management of a diversified chemicals company faces two financial decisions: whether to finance a major investment in new production facilities for its rapidly expanding Environmental Products Division, and whether to sell a more slowly growing non-specialty chemicals... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Decision Choices and Conditions; Chemicals; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Finance; Chemical Industry
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  • 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
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  • February 1995 (Revised June 1999)
  • Case

Chemical Bank: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Norman Klein
The retail bank division of Chemical Bank faces declining margins and increased competition in its credit and deposit gathering and processing business. It wishes to implement a new strategy to become a preferred financial service provider to target customer groups.... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Adoption; Growth and Development Strategy; Communication Strategy; Customer Relationship Management; Management Systems; Performance Evaluation; Banks and Banking; Measurement and Metrics; Banking Industry
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  • August 1989 (Revised December 1998)
  • Case

Harper Chemical Co., Inc.

A company acquires the rights to a mineral with potential uses in the ceramic and paint industries. After many years, sales are still far below expectations and the company considers selling the whole operation to a potential customer. Rewritten version of an earlier... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry
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  • January 1998
  • Teaching Note

Chemical Bank TN

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for (9-195-210). View Details
Keywords: Banking Industry
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  • March 1993 (Revised September 1995)
  • Case

Chemical Bank: Technology Support for Cooperative Work

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Donna B. Stoddard
Describes the organization and IT environment that Bruce Hasenyager found when he arrived at Chemical Bank. Goes on to explain his decision for implementing Lotus Notes as an "indispensable" management tool. Software is available: Order No. 9-196-701 (Windows version)... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Decision Making; Decisions; Management Style; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Applications and Software; Information Technology; Information; Information Management; Technology Industry
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  • June 1982 (Revised May 1983)
  • Case

Chandler Chemical Corp. (A)

By: Jay O. Light
Keywords: Chemical Industry
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  • November 1973 (Revised February 1975)
  • Case

Kelor Chemical Corp. (B)

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
Keywords: Chemical Industry
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  • October 1995 (Revised January 1999)
  • Case

Western Chemical Corporation: Divisional Performance Measurement (A)

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Roger Atherton
The president and controller of Western Chemical Corp. are discussing the best way to measure and report performance of foreign subsidiaries. One subsidiary is a joint venture with its own borrowing capacity; another is wholly owned; and a third is wholly owned and... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Financial Reporting; Performance Evaluation; Chemical Industry
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    Lyondell Chemical Company (HBS Case #210001)

    Hit with an industry recession and the global financial crisis of 2008, in January 2009 LyondellBasell Industries AF S.C.A., one of the world's largest internationally diversified chemical companies and headquartered in The Netherlands, placed its U.S. operations... View Details

    • June 1990
    • Case

    Nova Chemical Corp. (Abridged)

    By: Thomas R. Piper
    Keywords: Chemical Industry
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    • 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
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    • January 1999 (Revised March 1999)
    • Teaching Note

    Ciba Specialty Chemicals TN

    By: Forest L. Reinhardt
    Teaching Note for (9-799-086). View Details
    Keywords: Chemical Industry
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    • November 1984 (Revised March 1985)
    • Case

    Restructuring European Petrochemicals: Exxon Chemical

    By: Francis Aguilar, Joseph L. Bower and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres
    Keywords: Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Europe
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    • 20 Sep 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s-1980s

    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Christina Lubinski; Chemical
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s-1980s

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski
    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 environmentalism after World War II. In contrast, this study reveals... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Green Business; Pollution; Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Chemical Industry; Germany; United States
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    • May 1991
    • Supplement

    Allied Chemical Corp. (A), Supplement

    By: George C. Lodge
    Supplements the (A) case. View Details
    Keywords: Chemical Industry
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    • August 1989 (Revised July 1993)
    • Supplement

    Harper Chemical Co., Inc., Addendum

    Provides additional quantitative exhibits, including a pro forma income statement and break-even calculations for the operation and makes assumptions about marketing strategy. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
    Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Financial Statements; Chemical Industry
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    • October 1983
    • Case

    Chemical Bank: Allocation of Profits

    Describes a conflict between the metropolitan (branch banking) and treasury groups at the bank. The issue is which group should receive the profits generated by a product involving both: Due bills. It is a form of transfer pricing problem, but in a unique (i.e.,... View Details
    Keywords: Profit; Conflict and Resolution; Banks and Banking; Service Industry
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