Chemicals - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2007
News

Mead Treadwell

available search-and-rescue, as well as no oil or chemical spills and no rust buckets allowed. By secure we mean no single nation has control or the ability to unfairly tax ships passing through. Reliable means having enough... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Transportation

February 2015
Case

Continental Hope Group

By: Christopher Marquis and Qi Li

This case provides an opportunity to examine and discuss how a traditional Chinese private business was launched and developed into a globalizing, multi-industry corporation. It also highlights how second generation entrepreneurs successfully developed an innovative... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; China; Technology; Real Estate; Talent Retention; Incentives; Talent and Talent Management; Diversification; Family Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; China

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24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

increasing importance; measures of transfers have grown twice as fast as measures of the scale of affiliate operating activity over the last two decades. Transferred information can take the form, for example, of a specific formula used to produce a particular View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

in the economy in order to conserve foreign exchange, and to allocate the limited resources available at the time to a few sectors that could provide critical basic commodities, such as chemicals and steel. The early intervention, under... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

01 Dec 2010
News

Innovation Takes Center Stage

“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 MIT, he... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

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

02 Feb 2023
News

Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

Point-source capture or direct-air capture, both of which use filters or sorbent materials that can chemically bind to the CO2 to isolate it. Point-source capture means collecting carbon right at its production source. JM: whether it's an... View Details

04 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

on income and deforestation, but diverged on chemicals and legality, leading to low uptake. The Alliance responded by launching a second sustainability standard called the CRAFT Code in 2018. Whereas certification rewards the use of best... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Jun 2021
News

On the Road Less Traveled

commitment to academics would see him earn a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester and eventually HBS. After HBS, Ed would begin a storied investment career, eventually becoming CEO of Ferman Selz. And it was... View Details

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

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

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

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12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

adopt integrated reporting? A: The experience of the German chemical company BASF provides an excellent model to follow. Understand stakeholder information needs—that is, answer the questions, What information do stakeholders need? What... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Representative cases include Lobbying in the chemical industry in the U.S.; Unrest in Chile, Looting at Walmart International; and Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News. The fourth module ("The Future of Globalization") uses the... View Details

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