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- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
genetically modified foods in Europe. Betting the company on a "life sciences" vision, Shapiro had sold or spun off Monsanto's traditional chemical businesses and moved aggressively to acquire seed... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- November 2015 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
Air Products' Pursuit of Airgas (A)
By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Paul M. Healy, Penelope Rossano and Kyle Thomas
This case centers around the Air Products' hostile takeover attempt of Airgas in 2010. Air Products argued that its offer of a 38% premium is generous given Airgas' poor performance, which Air Products attributed to underperforming and entrenched managers at Airgas. On... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry
Wang, Charles C.Y., Paul M. Healy, Penelope Rossano, and Kyle Thomas. "Air Products' Pursuit of Airgas (A)." Harvard Business School Case 116-024, November 2015. (Revised March 2018.)
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
raises topics of fund selection and investing in country-specific funds such as Mexico. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208097 Patel Food and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
nonprofits and corporations can create value for society more effectively by applying strategy principles to philanthropy. Part V explores the link between strategy and leadership. Risk Frameworks View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
move on, become more ambitious." Nike and Dow Chemical are examples of companies that have made it to the innovation stage. After Nike faced accusations about violations of human rights by... View Details
- February 1994 (Revised February 1996)
- Case
Union Carbide Corporation: Interest Rate Risk Management
By: Peter Tufano
Union Carbide's board of directors is asked to evaluate a proposal from the staff treasurer's that would articulate policies to manage its debt portfolio. The staff proposes that shareholder value will be maximized if the firm manages its exposure to interest rates by... View Details
Tufano, Peter, and Jon Headley. "Union Carbide Corporation: Interest Rate Risk Management." Harvard Business School Case 294-057, February 1994. (Revised February 1996.)
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
Remember, we don't yet have the capability to serve the chemical and pharmaceutical industries here. There are still only 38 of us, and I estimate that building the support... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
The competitiveness of many multinational companies depends on their ability to transfer intellectual property and other intangible assets to their worldwide production processes. These sources of competitive advantage can be anything... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=33313&i=33315&cs=0fce70d96a0fde28d25d9feec060c2e7 August 2013 Business History Making 'Green Giants': Environment Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
themselves and new industries will grow. The number-one priority is to change the competition laws and the whole approach to regulating competition. Without competitive pressures, sick industries will never... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
the inconvenience of extracting color from plants and seeds. For instance, American dye and food producers imported some 914,000 pounds of annatto from Jamaica in 1935, up from 364,000 pounds in 1887.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
United States. Along with Jiao Luo and Stephan Meier, both of Columbia Business School, Oberholzer-Gee collected data on several thousand oil and chemical spills (most of them,... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
savings in the development of art assets for their video games. However, the firm's management find themselves at a point at which they feel they need to make a strategic decision that will enable Glass Egg to grow more substantially... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
Prisoners were housed in old stone barracks and newly constructed huts made of corrugated iron. The researchers examined the corporate archives of three German multinationals that employed the largest number of people interned in India... View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
Kodak. If you were Kodak [several years ago], you were selling to consumers, your suppliers were chemical companies, and there was no substitute for high-quality film. Kodak was among the most profitable... 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... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
PublicationsThe Rise of the Modern Firm Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Walter A. Friedman, eds. Publication:Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2012 This authoritative volume focuses on the rise of modern firms, from their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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 View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
primarily by the sale of the glasses themselves. VisionSpring is what organization scholars call a "hybrid" social venture, since it combines the social welfare logic of a nonprofit and the commercial logic... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
consideration, both sensory and economic. On the sensory side: He has designed several eating utensils, including an espresso spoon that sports a hole in the middle so as not to break up the continuity of the crema on top. On the economic... View Details