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  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Fast Forward

welfare,” Desai noted. Middle-Skills Gap Senior Lecturer Joe Fuller worked with consulting firm Accenture and workforce analytics company Burning Glass Technologies to produce a report highlighting the ways... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
  • November 1984 (Revised March 1985)
  • Case

Restructuring European Petrochemicals: British Petroleum, P.L.C.

By: Francis Aguilar, Joseph L. Bower and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres
Keywords: Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Europe
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  • November 1984 (Revised March 1985)
  • Case

Restructuring European Petrochemicals: Hoechst A.G.

By: Francis Aguilar, Joseph L. Bower and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres
Keywords: Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Europe
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  • November 1984 (Revised March 1985)
  • Case

Restructuring European Petrochemicals: BASF A.G.

By: Francis Aguilar, Joseph L. Bower and Benjamin Gomes-Casseres
Keywords: Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Chemical Industry; Chemical Industry; Europe
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  • 26 Oct 2017
  • News

Can Farming Save the Planet?

interest in the health of the soil. “If you restore soil and agriculture and don’t use chemical fertilizers to grow crops, and you change your... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Organic farming; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness

middle skills jobs,” Worrell says. “We focused our research on that gap and the failure in the talent supply chain that’s leading to that gap.” HBS alumnus Matt Sigelman (MBA 1999) also stepped up to help understand the talent gap. As CEO... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson; Walmart; Health, Social Assistance; Retail Trade
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

Biglari initiates a proxy fight in an attempt to win a board position and change the direction of Cracker Barrel's strategy. Two leading proxy advisory firms, ISS and Glass... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

New HBS Alumni Board Members

director of the Irish Seafood Producers Group. Born and raised in Ireland, Garvey studied chemical engineering and earned a BS from University College Dublin in 1976 View Details
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Professor Thomas Kennedy Remembered

industry. In 1950, he became director of industrial and public relations at the Atlas Chemical Company in Wilmington, Delaware, before joining the HBS faculty six years later. A memorial service will be held... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Managing the Map

precisely target individual diseases. Isolating the genome's three billion chemical units is a task of such immense scope that the NIH formed a consortium of academic and government research laboratories to... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2014
  • News

Turning "Black Gold" to Green

which, when burned, releases more CO2 (a key greenhouse gas) into the atmosphere. C12 Energy's North Dakota project will instead capture industrial CO2 from a big chemical plant located about 50 miles away View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction
  • 03 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Van den Ende Rozen

50% of the water used in rose cultivation is captured, treated with UV light, and reused for future crops. The Van den Ende brothers also continue to explore ways to reduce the use of chemical pesticides.... View Details

    Arnold O. Beckman

    Beckman is considered one of America’s foremost inventors. Starting with the invention of the pH meter (the first accurate test for acidity) in 1935, Beckman went on to secure 14 patents and produce dozens of scientific instruments that... View Details
    Keywords: Healthcare
    • Profile

    Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde

    needs.” Tuce and her colleagues decided to think small, developing a little device that allows people to track important items – like glasses and keys – through a smart-phone... View Details
    • 01 Oct 2013
    • News

    Banking on Africa's Future

    chemical engineering from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School. His résumé also includes stints at Disney and the Texas Pacific Group. With some $2 billion invested in more... View Details
    • Profile

    Sebastian Vargas

    Kraft Foods, but I regret not pursuing my teenage dream. Later in life, I was able to get closer to my childhood dream by learning Python and transitioning from chemical to digital research View Details

      Henry G. Walter, Jr.

      Walter built International Flavors and Fragrances into the world’s largest producer and supplier of scents. He was a pioneer in the burgeoning field of aromatherapy and... View Details
      Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

        Francis B. Davis Jr.

        In 1928, United States Rubber lost $10 million due to the collapse of the world crude rubber market. Taking over the helm in 1929, Davis reorganized the company, putting in place a multi-divisional organizational structure. Davis reduced the company’s debt by $40... View Details
        Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
        • 28 Apr 2009
        • First Look

        First Look: April 28, 2009

        purest drinking waters, sold at an ultra-premium price in a sleek cylindrical glass bottle of minimalist design. In the U.S. (the company's primary market), VOSS's high-end brand presence is strongest in on-premise locations—specifically,... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace