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    Harold Blancke

    During his CEO tenure, Blancke embarked on a massive growth plan for Celanese. Believing that success in the petrochemical industry was predicated on size, Blancke acquired several competitors and grew the company from $135 million in revenues to over $1 billion. His... View Details
    Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

      Eugene P. Grisanti

      Grisanti presided over a decade of consecutive growth in sales and earnings – achieving 12%+ growth rates in a mature market between 1986 and 1995. He secured International Flavors and Fragrances’ position as the world’s largest supplier of flavors and fragrances by... View Details
      Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

        Crawford H. Greenewalt

        As the tenth president of duPont Corporation, Greenewalt built the Savannah River Plant for nuclear processing, one of the largest construction projects in the United States. As CEO, Greenewalt generated a stellar return on equity performance for over a decade placing... View Details
        Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

          Leo H. Baekeland

          In 1907, Baekeland invented a high-quality synthetic substance that would change the lives of individuals and businesses forever – plastic (called Bakelite). Products produced with Bakelite were considered to be synonymous with high quality and durability – essentially... View Details
          Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

            Leland I. Doan

            Doan was responsible for Dow Chemical’s greatest diversification and expansion. Doan began by delegating increased authority to department heads and building a larger sales force trained to become market and production analysts. Upon entering his presidency, Doan... View Details
            Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
            • December 2016 (Revised April 2017)
            • Case

            BASF: Co-Creating Innovation (A)

            By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain
            In 2016, BASF's chief executive officer and chief technology officer reflected on the co-creation innovation program started almost 18 months ago as part of BASF's 150th anniversary celebration. Five hundred project ideas had been created, of which 100 had already... View Details
            Keywords: Sustainability; Knowledge Sharing; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Chemicals; Environmental Sustainability; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Consumer Products Industry; Europe
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            • 03 Oct 2016
            • Blog Post

            What I Learned in the Peek Weekend STEM Cohort

            Peek has changed a lot since its founding in 2015! Please visit the Peek website for the most up to date information on dates, registration, and program events. My name is Colby DeWeese and I graduated in 2016 with a degree in Chemical... 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

                Felipe Antonio Custer

                Keywords: Food and Chemicals
                • 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
                Keywords: Chemical Manufacturing; Chemical Manufacturing
                • 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
                • 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
                • 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
                • 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
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                Kira Epler

                summer internship, Kira's accepted a management-consulting position with McKinsey, in Dallas. She plans on sticking with consulting for a few years after graduation. "Then I'd like to go back to the chemical industry," she says.... View Details
                • 19 Oct 2011
                • News

                A Good Look

                appearance of healthy-looking skin.” Rosemary is the source of a natural antirancidity agent. “In a synthetic form, the chemical compound butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) would perform the same function,” Levy notes, “but many consumers... View Details
                Keywords: Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade
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                General File - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

                Works by renowned photographers include Lewis Hine’s scenes of construction crews atop the Empire State Building, Margaret Bourke-White’s portrait of masked chemical workers at the Sherwin Williams Factory, and Arthur Gerlach’s views of... View Details
                • 04 Apr 2024
                • Blog Post

                Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water

                gas or solar pumps into a tank where it’s filtered. But you can’t filter out PFAS.” PFAS constitute a group of chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. According to the CBC report, there are more than 10,000 known View Details
                • 01 Jun 2004
                • News

                New MBA Leadership Course

                Paine: “We want students to realize their full potential as business leaders.” Courtesy HBS Communications When Andy Mulkerin (HBS ’05), a chemical engineer by training, came to HBS he knew that his class would be the first to take... View Details
                Keywords: HBS; LCA; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
                • 01 Mar 2018
                • News

                Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

                cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops were not listed anywhere; a... View Details
                Keywords: Sasha Issenberg