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  • 25 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

Learning the Language of Business and Science – The MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program

My path into the field of biotechnology began at a young age.  I was largely influenced by my mother, who is a chemical engineer with an MBA, and by my upbringing in Boston, which exposed me to one of the top biotech/healthcare... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Leading in the face of complex challenges

founded in the 1930s as Hess Oil and Chemical Company. A longtime advocate for and supporter of HBS, Hess is at the helm of an effort that also seeks to actively engage the alumni community. He considers the mobilization of alumni as... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Tapping into a sustainable enterprise that provides income for indigenous Mexican families

that allows indigenous Mexican populations to earn vital income by planting seedlings and developing pine-tree forests on their degraded lands. Arias-King, president of T&R Chemicals in Texas, uses natural pine resin tapped from trees to... View Details
  • Web

Instant Photography Is Launched | Baker Library

one minute. Research for film development and camera engineering took place as separate activities. Film development technicians used a small sheet of negative film; a pod of chemical reagents; and a small positive receiving sheet. They... View Details
  • Profile

Taylor Wiegele

As a boy, Taylor Wiegele could often be found in the kitchen "making mixtures of random ingredients." Fortunately, for him and for his family, Taylor's enthusiasm for "potions" evolved into a real chemistry expertise. After studying View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; CPG; Tech
  • 10 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 10

verbal communication, the complexity in the narrative impacts the market reaction to the disclosure. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2154948 Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
Keywords: Chemical Industry; United States
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • October 1990 (Revised February 1997)
  • Case

American Cyanamid

By: Ray A. Goldberg
Keywords: Chemical Industry
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  • January 1991
  • Teaching Note

Responsible Care, Teaching Note

By: George C. Lodge
Teaching Note for (9-391-135). View Details
Keywords: Chemical Industry
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  • 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
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  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

which trains disadvantaged inner-city youths and unemployed adults of southwestern Pennsylvania for jobs in high-tech, culinary, and medical fields, partnered with Bayer, a major pharmaceutical and chemical company, to develop a View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
  • 02 Mar 2023
  • News

Carbon's Second Act

cofounder and CEO of Ocochem, a startup developing an electrochemical process to turn carbon dioxide into formic acid. Now, formic acid is not something most people are familiar with, but it's a pretty important chemical compound. It's... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

States, Europe, and Japan, it was supposed to examine two sectors: first, the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, which helped bring about the Second Industrial Revolution between the 1880s and 1920s, and second, consumer electronics... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • Profile

Rob Humble

her home state this summer when Rob assumes a corporate-finance internship with Celanese, a Texas petroleum derivatives chemicals company. "I've been tactical in my work so far," Rob reflects. "One way to increase my... View Details