DuPont - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Sep 2006
Op-Ed

Rising CEO Pay: What Directors Should Do

at a minimum insist on surveys that reflect company performance. Second, as former DuPont CEO Ed Woolard has suggested, it is helpful to gauge CEO pay in relation to what the next echelon of management is being paid, thus placing the... View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch

01 Jun 2006
News

CEO Compensation Troubles

should recognize that consultants’ surveys are flawed and are a huge source of the problem. In this regard, directors should at a minimum insist on surveys that reflect company performance. Second, as former DuPont CEO Ed Woolard has... View Details

Keywords: Jay W. Lorsch; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Mar 2018
News

Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

sector has been dominated by big players. A few buyers like Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland dominate global commodity trades, while a cluster of conglomerates like Monsanto and DuPont control vital farm inputs like seeds and chemicals,... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

19 Jul 2016
First Look

July 19, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216021-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-077 Trian Partners and DuPont (A) No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216077-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

widespread, the type of criticism activists levy seems less out of place. Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) both backed Peltz’s campaign for a board seat at DuPont this year, for example. Leveraging the growth of... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

Web

Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

hotels and taverns, libraries, halls, churches, government buildings (including the Old State House), and residences. Several photographs depict the aftermath of the 1872 fire. Also included is a group photograph of the National Typographical Union in 1859. Pierre... View Details

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

valuation inputs feeds into a valuation model. Students also learn the modified Dupont decomposition technique and how to reclassify financial statements to perform the modified Dupont analysis. Purchase... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

unsatisfactory history of capital allocations, acquisitions, and divestitures. But Trian’s $1.8 billion stake in DuPont was worth only 2.7 percent, making it easy for the management team to reject reform proposals. So Trian, recognizing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

the Deutsche Bank): "My son, the clerk." In the nineteenth century, the elder DuPonts also had trouble initiating a more sophisticated managerial organization—so it is not just an autocratic "German" quality, but one... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2012
News

The Accidental Pioneers

1965). "During case discussions, people disputed your conclusions, and you had to defend your thinking. That was very good practice for the future." For Brackenridge, that future included work as a marketing analyst for DuPont and—as she... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806092 Endo Pharmaceuticals (A): From LBO to...? Harvard Business School Case 806-064 Endo Pharmaceuticals was formed in 1997 as a leveraged buyout spin-off from DuPont Merck.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

the economist’s normal pastimes of rummaging through data sets, crunching numbers, and testing theories. But one day, he found himself hung up on the opening line of a teaching case: DuPont was considering entering the titanium dioxide... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

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