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  • 10 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands

to AI models to analyze insect size, speed, and flight patterns, which then feeds information to small drones to intersect an insect’s flight path and kill the pest on impact. This system reduces the need for chemical pesticides.... View Details
  • 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
  • 22 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

China-based China-LuQuan, strategic and cross-cultural negotiation challenges are explored both from American and Chinese perspectives. Wyoff, a leading US chemical company has been seeking ways to secure the company's foothold in China's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 May 2019
  • Blog Post

Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics

of job that could lead to.” Her parents suggested chemical engineering. “I thought it would be a good way to get through college and become self-sufficient.” At first, the plan seemed sound. An undergraduate internship with Chevron became... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • January 1996 (Revised March 1998)
  • Case

Linking Strategy and Innovation: Materials Technology Corporation

By: Clayton M. Christensen
Materials Technology Corp. (MTC), a high-tech materials company, is struggling in its development portfolio and to achieve a better record of delivering new products on time. View Details
Keywords: Technology; Innovation and Invention; Business Strategy; Time Management; Product; Production; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; United States
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  • October 2019 (Revised February 2025)
  • Case

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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  • December 2014 (Revised January 2018)
  • Case

Yara International: Africa Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer, Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Kerry Herman
Leading fertilizer producer Yara International demonstrates the concept of creating shared value through the Southern Agricultural Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) initiative, which brought together multiple organizations to enhance agricultural development in rural... View Details
Keywords: Shared Value; Tanzania; Agriculture Reform; Value Creation; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Tanzania
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  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Ink

March 2016 We can achieve presence when we need it, Cuddy argues, through a combination of body postures, behavior, and mindset, which activate chemical changes in the body. Expansive “power poses” can cause testosterone levels to rise... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Four Professors to Retire

internationalization process of the HBS curriculum. Crum graduated from Cornell University in 1957 with a degree in chemical engineering. At HBS he was a Baker Scholar and earned his MBA with high distinction in 1960. He began teaching at... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

    Edgar S. Woolard, Jr.

    Upon becoming CEO of duPont, Woolard oversaw a massive downsizing and focused the company on its core products. In addition to drastically cutting costs, Woolard restructured duPont into twenty semi-autonomous units and expanded duPont internationally. By the end of... View Details
    Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

      Samuel P. Colt

      Colt organized United States Rubber into a vertically integrated business with a centralized administration. Colt also diversified United States Rubber to include non-footwear items, such as tires, which were a booming market at the time of his tenure. Colt grew United... View Details
      Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
      • 01 Mar 2016
      • News

      Reinventing the Wheel

      extracting carbon black from discarded models to create new ones. Cardozo first heard about the idea in 2013 while serving as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Dutch incubator YES!Delft. The idea of chipping away at the mountains of old tires without emitting loads... View Details
      Keywords: Maureen Harmon
      • 18 Aug 2015
      • News

      New HBS Fund Chairs

      worked at Chemical Bank and MasterCard after receiving her MBA. Raised as a Quaker with a life-long interest in service, in 1994 she began working at the All Souls Soup Kitchen and for the next 19 years she took a leadership... 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
      • 10 Aug 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

      timed experiments—like biological and chemical fields—research time slid 30 to 40 percent. Overall, 55 percent of the respondents reported a decline in total work hours, 27 percent indicated no change, and 18 percent said they were... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health
      • Web

      Finalists | New Venture Competition

      Brandon Chi (MBA 2024) Joseph Swift Amitesh Pratap Redefining precision agriculture through AI-powered, genetic insights. Poka Labs Malay Shah (MBA 2024) Andrew Bass (MBA 2024) Poka Labs is building a cloud-based operating system built to modernize View Details
      • 1993
      • Chapter

      Regulating the International Trade in Hazardous Pesticides: Closing the Accountability Gap

      By: L. S. Paine
      Keywords: Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Accountability; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry
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      • 04 May 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: May 4

      propagation are uncovered, and the limited opportunities for response by the firm are revealed. The case supports the notion of the Internet as an insurgent medium, better at attack than at defense. Purchase this... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 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
      • 04 Aug 2023
      • Blog Post

      Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change

      CO2 and eliminate it from existence,” Karan explains. (02:54)With this chemical and geology-driven approach, Karan can help lead the decarbonization transition anywhere with a source of the rocks, called peridotite. Karan says his... View Details