Publications

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

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

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

October 1990 (Revised February 1997)
Case

American Cyanamid

By: Ray A. Goldberg

Keywords: Chemical Industry

January 1991
Teaching Note

Responsible Care, Teaching Note

By: George C. Lodge

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

Keywords: Chemical Industry

Profile

Nneka Ezeigwe

different kinds of industries on the ground, looking at what drives change and takes an economy to the next level. I’ll be able to work with policy makers and business leaders who are expanding Nigeria’s economy and political landscape.... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

19 Aug 2024
News

Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details

Web

Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

sectors (e.g., the retail industry in Chile, or the startup sector in Israel) or particular policies (inflation targeting in Brazil), and others span multiple countries (Chinese investments in Africa, or climate change). The course itself... View Details

January 1978
Case

Caustic Soda in Japan (B)

By: Louis T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Chemical Industry; Japan

February 1984 (Revised February 1986)
Case

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.: Titanium Dioxide

By: W. Carl Kester, Robert R. Glauber, David W. Mullins Jr. and Stacy S. Dick

Disequilibrium in the $350 million TiO2 market has prompted Du Pont's Pigments Department to develop two strategies for competing in this market in the future. The growth strategy has a smaller internal rate of return than the alternative strategy due to large capital... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cash Flow; Investment Return; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Projects; Chemical Industry

November 1973 (Revised April 1983)
Background Note

Sulfur Industry, Background Note

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

Keywords: Chemical Industry

November 1997
Teaching Note

CIBA-GEIGY (A), Teaching Note

By: Kenneth A. Merchant and Krishna G. Palepu

Keywords: Chemical Industry

July 2010 (Revised December 2010)
Case

Formosa Plastics Group: Business Continuity Forever

Wang Yung-ching, legendary Taiwanese businessman and philanthropist, passed away in 2008. He left behind an estate worth US $5.5 billion, but did not leave a will. The case discusses the potential motivation for Wang, and uses it to study succession planning for family... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Governance Controls; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Planning; Motivation and Incentives; Chemical Industry; Taiwan