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- 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...
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by Jay W. Lorsch
- 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,...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 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...
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- 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...
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Hanna, Julia
- 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...
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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...
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- 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...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 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....
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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...
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Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
signed it? And they were in the middle. Derek van Bever: Students of BSSE will remember no doubt the DuPont Kevlar case study. And when Gordon Swank goes up to the top floor of the Nemours Building with a proposal for a tire factory under...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
they were in the middle. Derek van Bever: Students of BSSE will remember no doubt the DuPont Kevlar case study. And when Gordon Swank goes up to the top floor of the Nemours Building with a proposal for a tire factory under his arm, they...
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