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  • 29 Aug 2016
  • Blog Post

First Year at HBS: A Foundation for Business

As a chemical engineer considering an MBA, I wanted more to learn and gain mastery of business principles with both breadth and depth. Like nearly everything else in the modern world, the business landscape has become quite complex and... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

into bribery? How can CEOs manage and prevent outbreaks of corruption? These and other questions are raised by three short case studies of corruption in Germany: at the global engineering firm Siemens, the automaker VW, and the chemical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

over-application and excess chemicals leaching into water systems. Wet processing is also particularly impactful. The World Bank estimates that 17–20 percent of industrial water pollution worldwide comes from textile coloration and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; United States
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  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

three major cities. The first six years of my life were in Calcutta. Then we moved to Delhi, where I finished my schooling at St. Columba’s. Afterward I enrolled at IIT Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and earned a chemical... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
  • 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
  • Profile

Gerald Chertavian

founded that helps economically disadvantaged young adults gain skills for professional careers. Chertavian’s inspiration for Year Up stems from his experience as a volunteer in the Big Brother Big Sister program. After earning a degree in economics from Bowdoin... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Entrepreneurship; Services
  • Profile

Jeremy Burnham

In the past year, Jeremy Burnham, a chemical engineer with a background in oil and energy, has experienced a dizzying succession of transitions. “Last June, my wife Perisha and I moved to Cambridge,” Jeremy explains. “In July, she gave... View Details
  • 16 Jan 2014
  • News

Learning from Helping Others

marketed credit cards for Chemical Bank, then MasterCard. But she always found time to volunteer, recording books for the visually impaired, and reading to elementary school students on her lunch hour. A change in management at MasterCard... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Health, Social Assistance
  • 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 restructure. Until Japan stops protecting industries such as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

successful product managers, general managers, startup founders, and CEOs of mature technology companies. Blending technical skills and business management knowledge Like all students in the MS/MBA program, Kaelyn and Adam had backgrounds in computer science or... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries

By: Regina Abrami and Yu Zheng
Why have China's petrochemical and steel industries behaved so differently in seeking trade protection through antidumping measures? We argue that the patterning of antidumping actions is best explained in terms of the political economy of economic restructuring in... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Price; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; China
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  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

napalm, it turned to several companies with experience in chemicals manufacturing. One in particular—The Dow Chemical Company—bore the brunt of the moral opprobrium associated with the production of napalm.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

Ely says. “In fact, there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that it’s going to undermine the quality of the work.” A chemical reaction When Ely’s team suggested to the consulting firm that its employees worked an unnecessary number of hours,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service
  • 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 infrastructure we need just for domestic expansion could cost as... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 02 Nov 2015
  • News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

Ralph Lauren Home shop in Filene’s. That forced me to engage with people on a new level and to convince them to spend $50 on a towel,” he says. He ultimately finished Duke and moved to New York City in 1987 to work at Chemical Bank, first... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

The Sparkles in Our Skies

Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Aether Diamonds makes its precious gems out of thin air—literally. The three-year-old company uses carbon dioxide drawn from the atmosphere to synthesize stones that are View Details
Keywords: April White; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 12 Jan 2017
  • News

Personalizing Women’s Path to Success

degree in chemical engineering, in 1989, she worked at Procter & Gamble in engineering and product development, and then in product supply, as the company started buying cosmetics businesses. When a New York–based startup recruited her in... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken