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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
- 06 Nov 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Extending Producer Responsibility: An Evaluation Framework for Product Take-Back Policies
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a degree in chemical engineering, believes SA presidents must be able to form a bridge linking students with faculty and administrators. “Part of it is being able to match student requests... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
a robust ecosystem with a mobile app that brings together all the participants in the marketplace and controls the entire ecosystem of vehicles, batteries and charging seamlessly. Green Science AllianceRyohei Mori, GMP 2021We are the View Details
Lammot du Pont
Under duPont’s leadership, researchers at duPont invented nylon, which revolutionized the textile industry. Researchers also discovered neoprene (the first general purpose synthetic rubber), Orlon and Dacron under duPont’s direction. duPont kept the duPont Corporation... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
How to Prepare for Shark Tank
What’s it like to appear on ABC-TV’s popular start-up series Shark Tank? In a word, nerve-wracking. Just ask Desiree Stolar and Nate Barbera (both MBA 2015), cofounders of Unshrinkit, a Harvard-born startup that has developed a formula that brings shrunken sweaters... View Details
- 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
- June 2008 (Revised January 2014)
- Teaching Note
Cook Composites and Polymers Co.
By: Deishin Lee and Michael W. Toffel
Teaching Note for [608055]. View Details
Keywords: Chemical Industry
- December 2001
- Case
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
Gilson, Stuart C., and Perry Fagan. "E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company: The Conoco Split-off (C)." Harvard Business School Case 202-007, December 2001.
- 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
Thomke, Stefan H., and Ashok Nimgade. "Bush Boake Allen." Harvard Business School Case 601-061, November 2000. (Revised June 2010.)
- May 1998
- Case
Negotiating the Right to Know: Rhone-Poulenc and Manchester, Texas (A-2)
Supplements the (A1) case. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Wheeler, Michael A. "Negotiating the Right to Know: Rhone-Poulenc and Manchester, Texas (A-2)." Harvard Business School Case 898-258, May 1998.
- August 1992 (Revised July 2013)
- Case
ChemBright, Inc.
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
Hammond, Janice H. "ChemBright, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 693-026, August 1992. (Revised July 2013.)
- 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
Goldberg, Ray A., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Srinivas Sunder. "Monsanto Company: Delivering on the Vision of Life Sciences." Harvard Business School Case 599-067, November 1998. (Revised December 1998.)
- October 1990 (Revised February 1997)
- Case
American Cyanamid
By: Ray A. Goldberg
Keywords: Chemical Industry
Goldberg, Ray A. "American Cyanamid." Harvard Business School Case 591-043, October 1990. (Revised February 1997.)
- 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
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Du Pont's Titanium Dioxide Business (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 390-115, November 1989. (Revised August 1994.)
- 09 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Solving the Complexities of the Biotechnology Industry
even come close to understanding it or imitating its design. The body deploys amazing, interconnected solutions to manage the chemical wonders that continuously run. We continue to explore human physiology, and we continue to learn how... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
that has proven effective in pollutant absorption both above and beneath the surface of water. Smith has been working closely with fishermen in the Gulf area to help rid the affected waters of the propylene glycol (a chemical found in... View Details