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  • October 2019 (Revised February 2025)
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A Conversation with Ellen J. Kullman, Chairman & CEO of DuPont, 2009-2015

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Ellen J. Kullman, the retired Chairman and CEO of DuPont, describes how she guided the storied science and technology company through a contentious proxy battle with activist investor Trian Partners, which acquired DuPont shares in 2013 and sought to break up the... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Institutional Investing; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Transformation; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; United States
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Paine, Lynn S., and Will Hurwitz. "A Conversation with Ellen J. Kullman, Chair & CEO of DuPont, 2009-2015." Harvard Business School Case 320-017, October 2019. (Revised February 2025.)
  • 22 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 22

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511137-PDF-ENG The K-Dow Petrochemicals Joint Venture Guhan Subramanian, James K. Sebenius, Phillip Andrews, and Rhea GhoshHarvard Business School Case 912-002 In 2007, the Dow Chemical Company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2013
  • Op-Ed

Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

offices. Here's my proposal: I ask that the Association of University Technology Managers establish a set of standards, balancing public interests and private incentives, that would encourage the development of new chemical entities for... View Details
Keywords: by Richard G. Hamermesh; Biotechnology; Health
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A Life’s Work | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

A Life’s Work Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) realized what he wanted to do with his life when he was just 21 years old. Having volunteered as a Big Brother while working at Chemical Bank in New York City, he saw firsthand the need for a... View Details
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Xue (Ken) Yuan

studies and his experience in complex chemical polymers, Xue has a passion for stand-up comedy. “It started about two years ago, when a couple of my friends returned from Canada and we talked about how Shanghai had nowhere to go for... View Details
  • 20 May 2008
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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 Chemicals Private Limited (A) Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program

immense potential that sit at the intersection of life sciences and business. After studying Chemical Engineering and Finance at Penn, I worked at the healthcare investment banking group of BofA Merrill Lynch and then at a healthcare... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • News

Banking on Africa's Future

chemical engineering from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School. His résumé also includes stints at Disney and the Texas Pacific Group. With some $2 billion invested in more than 30 countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, Helios's focus... View Details
  • 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
  • 19 Jun 2014
  • News

Turning "Black Gold" to Green

which, when burned, releases more CO2 (a key greenhouse gas) into the atmosphere. C12 Energy's North Dakota project will instead capture industrial CO2 from a big chemical plant located about 50 miles away and then pump it to the mature... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

    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
      • 01 Mar 2023
      • News

      Clearing the Air

      believe that we can just take existing processes for capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air and improve them through optimizing the chemical engineering process. The fundamental bottleneck that controls the economics of direct-air... View Details
      Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge
      • 14 Feb 2019
      • News

      Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

      chemical fertilizers. Soil from the average cultivated field contains 0.5 to 1 percent carbon, while soil from the average virgin land, including forest and prairie, contains 3 to 7 percent. “Carbon capture is the only way to get out of... View Details
      • June 2024
      • Supplement

      Climate Governance at Linde plc (B)

      By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain
      In July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainability committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a focus on decarbonization and clean energy. Linde was the world's largest industrial gas supplier, with a workforce of... View Details
      Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Innovation Strategy; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; United States; Germany; Europe; North America; London
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      Paine, Lynn S., Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud, and Vincent Dessain. "Climate Governance at Linde plc (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 324-141, June 2024.
      • September 2008
      • Teaching Note

      Chi Mei Optoelectronics (TN)

      By: Willy C. Shih
      Teaching Note for [608-123]. View Details
      Keywords: Diversification; Information Technology; Market Entry and Exit; Standards; Industry Clusters; Supply Chain; Production; Experience and Expertise; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Taiwan; Asia; Korean Peninsula; China
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      Shih, Willy C. "Chi Mei Optoelectronics (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 609-040, September 2008.
      • 09 Aug 2004
      • Research & Ideas

      A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

      use to build asymmetric skills. For example, one chemical company we worked with realized that finding a way to reach nonconsumers in developing countries was its ticket to disruptive growth. It had an in-process innovation that would... View Details
      Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring
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      Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

      accommodate three pairs of socks, and durable enough to withstand cold weather. Doriot relied on his vast network of contacts in diverse industries as well. He recruited Monsanto and Dow Chemical Company to help create a lightweight,... View Details
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