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- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
of the company to another owner. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716403-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 416-005 Proxy Contest at DuPont On January 9, 2015, Nelson Peltz of Trian Fund Management launched a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
some firms might be surprising—Colgate-Palmolive dates back to 1806 and Chase Manhattan, all the way back to 1799. DuPont has a history nearly as old as the nation. It was founded near Wilmington, Delaware, in 1802, during the presidency...
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- 26 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food
Advertisement for DuPont Cellophane from The Saturday Evening Post, 1950. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Advertising Department records (Accession 1803), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington,...
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- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
but he will always be remembered for causing all of us to think more creatively about management.” Katherine Lawrence, formerly of the DuPont organization, provided a thought-provoking observation that, “When workers become fungible, a...
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- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
German polymer labs occasionally made the mistake of leaving a Bunsen burner lit over the weekend. Upon discovering this mistake on Monday mornings, the chemists simply discarded the overcooked results and went on with their day. Ten years later, a chemist in a polymer...
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by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
DuPont's vision is "to be the world's most dynamic science company, creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer and healthier life for people everywhere." This vision helps DuPont employees better understand what...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
ratios. Students can apply the traditional DuPont decomposition framework to drill down into the business model of the two companies. The case then allows students to use the modified (also known as additive or alternate) View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
and Tesco. The case introduces the tools of Dupont and Modified Dupont Decomposition. While performance as measured by return on equity has been similar for the two companies, Ahold has had significantly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
B2B Branding: Does it Work?
shareholder value be the same today if it had not made consumers aware of nylon, Lycra, and Stainmaster and linked these innovations to the Dupont name? Definitely not. Do you think brand-building is essential for B2B companies? Have you...
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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
- 19 Jul 2016
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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...
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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...
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- 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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- 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 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