DuPont - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 May 2015
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New DuPont CEO needs to step up quick

09 Apr 2015
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Peltz’s Attacks on DuPont Threaten America’s Research Edge

11 May 2015
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How DuPont went to war with activist investor Nelson Peltz

10 Apr 2015
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Peltz not qualified for board, go after weak companies

27 Jun 2011
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Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

of nonalcoholic beverages. The livestreamed event also included a Founder’s Chat between 2018 aNVC Crowd Favorite winner Benoit Dupont (PLDA 2016), cofounder and CEO of WeMaintain, and Jodi Gernon (MBA 1991), director of the HBS Rock... View Details

09 Feb 2021
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Investing in Entrepreneurship

Nuclear, which was bought by DuPont in 1972. The success of that, he said in an interview with the Computer History Museum, “made me think that the venture business was easy.” By all accounts, Crisp made it look easy. He worked closely... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2007
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

Chandler observed. Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. was born in Guyencourt, Delaware, on September 15, 1918. A 1940 graduate of Harvard College, Chandler returned to Harvard after service as a Navy officer in World War II, earning his Ph.D. in... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events

Recent HBS Alumni Events Around the World 1 Daniel Peng, Wendy Lim, and Jackie Valentine (all MBA 2017) with Derrick Hsu and Anish Nahar (MBA 2017) at the Young Alumni Networking Reception held in March at the Barbarossa Lounge in San Francisco. 2 Ben View Details

16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

Alumni Runner-up prize with Magma Trading, a stock market for block-size trades that he calls “the Costco of trading.” Benoit Dupont (PLDA 20, 2016) (Europe region) took the $5,000 Crowd Favorite prize with his pitch for WeMaintain, a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

19 Apr 2018
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One Last Pitch

instructions to patients via text or email in an effort to eliminate misunderstandings and no-shows to appointments and procedures. Benoit Dupont (PLDA 20, 2016) charmed the crowd with his pitch for WeMaintain, a business-to-business... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes

Until the funds are wired to your bank account, there is no deal. —Benoit M.M. Dupont (PLDA 20, 2016) cofounder and CEO, WeMaintain; Alumni track, European region, finalist and crowd favorite, 2018 People and Patience People are the most... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Alvaro Dominguez

01 Feb 2002
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As the Future Catches You

genetics revolution is occurring 50 percent faster than the computer revolution; private companies, from IBM to DuPont to L'Oreal, will have the ability to rewrite the source code of life; and nanotechnology will soon produce "biorobots"... View Details

Keywords: life sciences; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Mar 2018
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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

01 Jun 2009
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Crisis and Creativity

during an economic downturn. My colleague, HBS associate professor Tom Nicholas, has found that while the pace of patent applications slowed during the Great Depression, some contrarians pressed ahead with innovation, including DuPont... View Details

Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti

01 Jun 2006
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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
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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)

01 Dec 2012
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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

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