Publications

01 Sep 2010
News

Reinventing the Annual Report

in this effort, including Southwest Airlines (with its Southwest Airlines One Report), United Technologies Corporation (UTC), the Dutch electronics and health-care giant Philips, the German chemical company BASF, and Danish pharmaceutical... View Details

Keywords: Robert G. Eccles

October 1997 (Revised September 2003)
Case

Eli Lilly and Company: Drug Development Strategy (A)

By: Stefan H. Thomke, Ashok Nimgade and Paul Pospisil

Describes how Eli Lilly and Co. tries to accelerate its new drug development process with the aid of "combinatorial chemistry"--a rapidly emerging and revolutionary approach to preclinical drug discovery. The product manager of a potential blockbuster migraine drug... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Time Management; Markets; Product Development; Organizations; Business Processes; Problems and Challenges; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Competition; Pharmaceutical Industry

01 Jun 2012
News

A Better World, One Idea at a Time

A dozen budding social entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for innovative products and services during the annual Social Enterprise Conference in February, and four came away with top honors. The sold-out event marked the 13th year of the conference, which is jointly... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; cosmetics; Chemical Manufacturing; Chemical Manufacturing; Chemical Manufacturing; Chemical Manufacturing; Chemical Manufacturing; Chemical Manufacturing

15 Aug 2015
News

Victoria Tsai: Skin Secrets of a Geisha

Keywords: beauty products; Chemical Manufacturing; Chemical Manufacturing; Chemical Manufacturing; Chemical Manufacturing

15 Sep 2020
Blog Post

One Month into the New MS/MBA Biotech

medicine. Can you elaborate on that? For example, if I was a chemical engineer or a math major, does that mean I’m not eligible? How much biology do I need to be prepared for the program? We really feel it is important for students in the... View Details

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

February 1986 (Revised November 1992)
Case

Novo Industri A/S--1981

By: W. Carl Kester and Glynn Ferguson

This small but rapidly growing Danish biochemical company must choose among several financing opportunities that include a convertible Eurobond, a rights offering in Denmark and an issue of new common shares in the United States. The case involves a broad range of... View Details

Keywords: Capital Markets; Cost of Capital; Bonds; Stock Shares; Financing and Loans; Globalization; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Denmark; United States

August 1994
Teaching Note

Nippon Kayaku TN

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Tokyo

September 1998
Teaching Note

Gordon Cain and the Sterling Group Series TN

By: Michael C. Jensen and Brian Barry

Teaching Note for (9-492-021) and (9-492-022). View Details

Keywords: Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Houston

March 1995 (Revised January 1996)
Teaching Note

Portfolio Planning at Ciba-Geigy and the Newport Investment Proposal TN

By: David J. Collis

Teaching Note for (9-795-040). View Details

Keywords: Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Switzerland

January 1997 (Revised July 1998)
Case

Dendrite International (Condensed)

By: John A. Deighton

This version has been shortened to concentrate on the issue of managing a long selling process and long post-sale account relationship. The focus on the pharmaceutical industry in the United States, Europe, and Japan is preserved. Broader questions of expansion into... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Marketing Strategy; Product Development; Sales; Expansion; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Japan; Europe; United States

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April 1995 (Revised July 1996)
Supplement

Governance at Metallgesellschaft (B)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Samanta Graff

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Corporate Accountability; Business Conglomerates; Governing and Advisory Boards; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Germany; United States

April 1995 (Revised July 1996)
Case

Governance at Metallgesellschaft (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Samanta Graff

MG Corp., a U.S. subsidiary of Germany's international conglomerate, Metallgesellschaft, engaged in a disastrous hedging strategy that nearly dragged the entire enterprise into bankruptcy. This case explores issues of responsibility and accountability among the... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Corporate Accountability; Business Conglomerates; Governing and Advisory Boards; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Germany; United States

April 1988
Case

Restructuring European Petrochemicals: Update 1988

By: Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Europe

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November 1987 (Revised March 1990)
Case

Ethyl Corp. in 1979

Describes the competitive situation facing the market leader in antiknock additives, the Ethyl Corp. Demand is declining rapidly and Ethyl has to decide whether to close capacity, and if so, how. Raises issues of corporate as well as SBU strategy because antiknock... View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Corporate Strategy; Performance Capacity; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry