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  • December 2012
  • Case

Coca-Cola: Residual Income Valuation

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Beiting Cheng and Edward J. Riedl
The case illustrates the use of the residual income (also known as the abnormal earnings) valuation approach. Students are asked to provide a valuation of Coca-Cola Company using the residual income valuation methodology and understand how it maps into the discounted... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Valuation; Financial Statements; Equity; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • October 2019 (Revised February 2025)
  • Case

A Conversation with Ellen J. Kullman, Chairman & CEO of DuPont, 2009-2015

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Ellen J. Kullman, the retired Chairman and CEO of DuPont, describes how she guided the storied science and technology company through a contentious proxy battle with activist investor Trian Partners, which acquired DuPont shares in 2013 and sought to break up the... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Institutional Investing; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Transformation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; United States
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  • January 2006 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

Endo Pharmaceuticals (A): From LBO to...?

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Brian DeLacey
Endo Pharmaceuticals was formed in 1997 as a leveraged buyout spin-off from DuPont Merck. In 1999, it must decide whether to do an IPO or merge with a smaller company. View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • December 2001 (Revised July 2005)
  • Case

E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company: The Conoco Split-off (A)

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Perry Fagan
After taking 30% of its Conoco oil and gas subsidiary public in the largest domestic initial public offering (IPO) in U.S. history, management of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (DuPont) is considering divesting its remaining interest in Conoco. This goal is to be... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Business Subsidiaries; Restructuring; Non-Renewable Energy; Chemicals; Assets; Initial Public Offering; Business and Shareholder Relations; Diversification; Value; Chemical Industry; United States
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  • 27 Jun 2011
  • News

The Innovator's Solution

  • June 2017
  • Case

AT&T Versus Verizon: A Financial Comparison

By: V.G. Narayanan and Joel L. Heilprin
This case asks students to prepare a report comparing the financial and operating performance of AT&T and Verizon. Taking the perspective of a communications industry analyst, they must also consider the differences between and implications of the companies' business... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Operations; Analysis; Business Model; Accounting; Performance Effectiveness; Telecommunications Industry
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  • January 2020 (Revised July 2020)
  • Case

Chemours (A)

By: David G. Fubini and David Lane
The July 2015 spin-off of DuPont’s performance chemicals division as the independent company Chemours burdened new CEO Mark Vergnano and his team with perilous challenges. Despite market-leading offerings in several areas, the company faced a glutted market for its... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Chemicals; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Chemical Industry; United States
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  • 13 Oct 2022
  • Other Presentation

4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Disruptive Innovation

By: Amy Bernstein, Rita McGrath, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Derek van Bever
A roundtable conversation takes stock of Clayton Christensen’s influential theory. This first in a series of roundtable conversations assessing the origins and impact of four breakthrough ideas.

In the 1980s, Clayton Christensen cofounded a startup that... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation
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  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

of the company to another owner. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716403-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 416-005 Proxy Contest at DuPont On January 9, 2015, Nelson Peltz of Trian Fund Management launched a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

E. Carlson United Airlines, 1971–1979 Hattie Carnegie Hattie Carnegie, 1909–1956 Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. DuPont Corporation, 1940–1948 Willis H. Carrier Carrier Corporation, 1914–1948 Edward W. Carter Carter Hawley Hale, 1946–1977 Frank... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2021
  • Book

In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • 26 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

Advertisement for DuPont Cellophane from The Saturday Evening Post, 1950. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Advertising Department records (Accession 1803), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising
  • 23 Mar 2023
  • News

Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

of nonalcoholic beverages. The livestreamed event also included a Founder’s Chat between 2018 aNVC Crowd Favorite winner Benoit Dupont (PLDA 2016), cofounder and CEO of WeMaintain, and Jodi Gernon (MBA 1991), director of the HBS Rock... View Details
  • Web

Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

Other Ratios Impact of Policy Differences Featured Exercise Analyze ratios and use the DuPont Framework to evaluate the financial state and strategy of a business 8.5 hrs Module 7 Accounting for the Future Use financial forecasting to... View Details
  • 03 Jan 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

but he will always be remembered for causing all of us to think more creatively about management.” Katherine Lawrence, formerly of the DuPont organization, provided a thought-provoking observation that, “When workers become fungible, a... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 08 Nov 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

  • Web

Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

Exercises Categorize financial ratios DuPont Analysis exercise 6-7 hrs Module 2 Finance vs. Accounting Identify the fundamental differences between accounting and finance, and examine the use of cash as a measurement of value creation.... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

Chandler observed. Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. was born in Guyencourt, Delaware, on September 15, 1918. A 1940 graduate of Harvard College, Chandler returned to Harvard after service as a Navy officer in World War II, earning his Ph.D. in... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2021
  • News

Investing in Entrepreneurship

Nuclear, which was bought by DuPont in 1972. The success of that, he said in an interview with the Computer History Museum, “made me think that the venture business was easy.” By all accounts, Crisp made it look easy. He worked closely... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

German polymer labs occasionally made the mistake of leaving a Bunsen burner lit over the weekend. Upon discovering this mistake on Monday mornings, the chemists simply discarded the overcooked results and went on with their day. Ten years later, a chemist in a polymer... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon