Chemical - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 1989 (Revised August 1994)
Supplement

Du Pont's Titanium Dioxide Business (D)

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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April 1990
Case

Dow Indonesia (A) (Abridged)

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Chemical Industry; Indonesia

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August 1986
Case

Dow Indonesia (A), Software Case

By: James E. Austin and Louis T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Chemical Industry; Indonesia

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July 1985 (Revised February 1986)
Case

Dow Indonesia (B1)

By: James E. Austin, Dennis J. Encarnation III and Louis T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Chemical Industry; Indonesia

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01 Feb 2002
News

Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story

markets in large systems outside the United States. Never has a single deal so formidably shaped a major national industry. What themes will you explore in your next book? Originally I had conceived of writing a single volume devoted to the consumer electronics and... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

24 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Trailblazing Success with Global Reach and Impact: Scott Wallinger (AMP 82, 1979)

was promoted to Vice President. It involved overseeing not only the Timberlands Division, but also our specialty chemical manufacturing operations. I spent considerable time with managers in that division and its research staff and... View Details

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

producers, and thus worthy of slapping with 25 percent or higher penalties as they come in the country. The first three pages were chemicals and medical products, and as a one-time chemist I was surprised to see what the US was aiming to... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

22 Jan 2019
News

Remembering Walter Shipley

Walter Shipley (AMP 73, 1976), the former chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank and Chemical Bank, died on January 11, 2019, at the age of 83, prompting a flood of fond remembrances in the media. Over his 40-year tenure, Shipley is... View Details

Blog

What's the Right Fit for You–An In-Person or Virtual Program?

sales & marketing and general management. Currently I am part of the Group CEO Office of the Petroleum & Chemicals Solution Group. This division focuses on securing stable supplies of energy and chemical... View Details

September 1979
Teaching Note

Monsanto Co.: The Queeny Division (A) and (B) TN

By: Francis Aguilar

Keywords: Chemical Industry

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November 1976 (Revised February 1977)
Case

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.--1976

By: Jay O. Light

Keywords: Chemical Industry

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December 1995 (Revised April 1997)
Teaching Note

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.: Project ICON (D) TN

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Keywords: Projects; Chemical Industry

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March 2011
Teaching Note

First Boston's Union Carbide Deal: Acquiring a New Client (TN)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Penny Rossano

Teaching Note for 897201. View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Negotiation Offer; Investment Banking; Relationships; Revenue; Capital Structure; Chemical Industry

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August 2010 (Revised March 2012)
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The Dow Acquisition of Rohm and Haas (C)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa Barton

The global economy entered a crippling recession in the fourth quarter of 2008 and Dow lost its primary source of funding for its planned acquisition of Rohm and Haas. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Crisis; Financing and Loans; Chemical Industry

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November 1990 (Revised June 1993)
Case

FMC Corp.: A Recapitalization

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Julie H. Hertenstein

A proposed recapitalization will use new debt to pay a large dividend to some shareholders in return for a reduction of their voting power. The result will be a highly leveraged financial structure and negative owners' equity. Students can trace the effects of proposed... View Details