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  • 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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  • January 1994
  • Article

Foreign Multinationals in British Manufacturing, 1850-1962

By: G. Jones and Frances Bostock
This article draws on a new database to describe the dimensions and characteristics of 685 foreign companies which established British manufacturing subsidiaries between 1850 and 1962. The numbers of foreign companies grew from the 1890s, expanded rapidly in the... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Expansion; Chemicals; Metals and Minerals; Food; Mergers and Acquisitions; Market Entry and Exit; Research and Development; Trade; Investment; Production; United Kingdom; United States; Scotland; Wales
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  • 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
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  • August 1994
  • Teaching Note

Nippon Kayaku TN

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Tokyo
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
  • 10 Jun 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

companies encouraging and funding ESG innovation. Dow Chemical has enormous energy consumption in their operations, but they've managed to save more than $10 billion through efficiency programs and are moving the world toward the adoption... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
  • 02 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

United States. Along with Jiao Luo and Stephan Meier, both of Columbia Business School, Oberholzer-Gee collected data on several thousand oil and chemical spills (most of them, thankfully, quite small) over a six-year period from 2001 to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy
  • 02 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 2, 2009

chemical company, this paper explores the effects of firsthand experience on intersite trust. We find firsthand experience leads not just to direct knowledge of the other, but also knowledge of the self as seen through the eyes of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jul 2025
  • News

Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast

Utah Alumni Explore Future of Great Salt Lake The HBS Club of Utah recently got an insider’s look at the economic and ecological health of the Great Salt Lake (GSL) with a presentation by Utah’s first GSL commissioner, Brian Steed, at the headquarters of Traeger Grills... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 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
  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

This case analyzes Dow Chemical Company's proposed acquisition of Rohm and Haas in 2008. The $18.8 billion acquisition was part of Dow's strategic transformation from a slow-growth, low-margin, and cyclical producer of basic View Details
  • 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
  • Web

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