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  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

Kerr-McGee. They demand two board seats and ask the company to make several operational and financial changes, including the repurchase of equity and divestiture of their chemicals business. The case protagonist, Luke Corbett, CEO,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2024 (Revised March 2024)
  • Teaching Note

X: The Foghorn Decision

By: Kyle Myers and Walter Frick
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 618-060. View Details
Keywords: Alternative Energy; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Climate Change; Green Technology; Selection and Staffing; Knowledge; Product Design; Product Development; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Science-Based Business; Innovation and Invention; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry
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  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

"business is an extraordinary force for good." While Nohria earned a chemical engineering degree from prestigious IIT Bombay, he harbored a dream of becoming an entrepreneur even as he applied to a doctoral program at MIT. At... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education
  • 20 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

conglomerate Tata & Sons, played a significant role in building India's economic infrastructure. Under his guidance, Tata & Sons built locomotives, steel refineries, airlines, chemical plants, and technology-based enterprises.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

chemical company Novacap. For each company, the case describes how Ardian decided on the investment and established a board of directors and details the deliberations around some of the critical decisions made by each board during... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Inside Out

at which time “permissible” exposure limits were set for many chemicals based on a report from 1968, and those existing, unprotective limits were grandfathered into the new law. And as for new permissible exposure limits, OSHA has only... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Life Lessons

cultural and political perspective.” Next she was admitted to the prestigious University of the Witwatersrand where, in 1996, she became the first black woman to graduate from the school of chemical engineering; she now sits on the... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner; Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective

By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper examines the evolution of concepts of the responsibility of business in a historical and global perspective. It shows that from the nineteenth century American, European, Japanese, Indian and other business leaders discussed the responsibilities of... View Details
Keywords: Rachel Carson; Sustainability; Local Food; Operations Management; Supply Chain; Business And Society; Business Ethics; Business History; Corporate Philanthropy; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Environmentalism; Environmental Entrepreneurship; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Ethics; Globalization; History; Religion; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; Africa
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  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

and a team of investors bought the shuttered plant and got it up and running again. Adopting a local word for "genesis," Okoloko would call his new company Notore Chemical Industries Ltd. Looking for professional managers two years later,... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 2013
  • Book

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World

By: Geoffrey Jones
This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making of the modern world. In recent years economists, historians, and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty,... View Details
Keywords: FDI; Economic History; Business History; Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mines; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; South America
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  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM’s global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company’s final moves away from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Women at the Top

worked for fourteen years in human resources at Chemical Bank in New York. For her part, Busch, who has been with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter since graduating from HBS, observed a salient business lesson unfolding across centuries. "What I... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
  • 06 Aug 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

the boom in LED manufacturing, Chinese local governments would pay for 100 percent of the cost of the metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) tool used to make LEDs, so naturally what followed was a dramatic over-expansion of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

chemistry. This led to a growing divergence between R&D and manufacturing and the eventual replacement of biological manufacturing with chemical manufacturing. The article explores the changing trajectories of R&D and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

of the back of her house, selling chemical products on the side," laughs Mayo. "To their credit, students were excited to help with the business despite the tiny revenues, but we decided to pull the plug and found a more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

opportunity to engage in a virtual dialogue on these matters. Some major corporations are starting to take the lead in this effort, including United Technologies Corporation, Philips (the Dutch electronics and health care giant), the German View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 03 Oct 2019
  • News

Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns

continue mitigating those risks and advancing the technology?” The government is in the best place. They have all the testing. And while it will take much longer done by government, we’re still riding down that cost curve with chemical... View Details
Keywords: Space Research and Technology; Government
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Profiles from the class of 2007

has shown a similar ease when it comes to changing course. Although she studied chemical engineering at University College Dublin, she went to work for McKinsey & Co. in 2001. Stints in private equity and commercial banking followed, as... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

The U.S. energy policy, under the Obama administration, authorized a handful of gas exporters, despite pressure from domestic chemical and utility interests, and approved oil exports for the first time in 40 years. Environmental issues... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

Based on surveys gathered from 140 employees in a division of a global chemical company, we found that direct knowledge and reflected knowledge enhanced trust differentially. While both enhanced feelings of closeness with others, results... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne