Publications

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

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

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

Profile

Sebastian Vargas

possible for me because in movies, software engineers were always portrayed as hacking into complex systems from an early age. I was nowhere near that level. Plus, I had no role model that I could talk to about this path. I finally settled on View Details

March 1990 (Revised February 1993)
Teaching Note

Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc. (TN)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

Keywords: Chemical Industry; Japan

November 1988 (Revised January 1992)
Teaching Note

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

By: W. Carl Kester

Teaching Note for (9-284-066). View Details

Keywords: Product; Chemical Industry

June 2024 (Revised December 2024)
Case

Climate Governance at Linde plc (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain

In July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainability committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a focus on decarbonization and clean energy. Linde was the world's largest industrial gas supplier, with a workforce of... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Innovation Strategy; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry; United States; Germany; Europe; North America; London

February 1985
Case

Multichemical, Inc. (Abridged)

By: Thomas R. Piper

Keywords: Chemical Industry

July 1995
Teaching Note

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: MIS Reorganization (A) and Project ICON (A), (Abridged) TN

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Teaching Note for (9-193-008). View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Management Teams; Transformation; Decisions; Management Succession; Chemical Industry; London

November 2010
Supplement

Dow's Bid for Rohm and Haas (CW)

By: Benjamin C. Esty

Spreadsheet Supplement for 211020. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Performance; Joint Ventures; Financial Crisis; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Markets; Sales; Lawsuits and Litigation; Negotiation Deal; Governing and Advisory Boards; Cash Flow; Decisions; Chemical Industry; Kuwait

August 2010 (Revised March 2012)
Case

The Dow Acquisition of Rohm and Haas (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa Barton

The Rohm and Haas Board decided how to move forward after its largest shareholder chose to sell all of its shares in the company. View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership; Management Teams; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry

August 2006
Teaching Note

Cluster Mobilization in Mitteldeutschland (TN)

By: Jeffrey Fear and Christian H.M. Ketels

Teaching Note to 707004. View Details

Keywords: Chemical Industry; Germany

December 2005
Teaching Note

Dow Chemical's Bid for the Privatization of PBB in Argentina (TN)

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs

Keywords: Chemical Industry; Argentina