Harvard Business Review
MAY 31, 2013
acreage treated with insecticide fell from 25% in 2005 to just 9% in 2010. The development threatens to undermine one of the main benefits of genetically modified crops: that they reduce the need for chemical pest control, says the Wall Street Journal.' But the rootworm has modified its genetics too.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
For example, after its spin-off from International Paper, Arizona Chemical drastically changed its market approach from a drive for volume to margin optimization. Whatever the motives, though, SBOs do enable successive waves of add-on acquisitions to the initial divested business.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 20, 2014
This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. In chemicals, energy, technology, beer and more, you can see a multi-decade trend toward the consolidation of behemoths. Much of this is driven by the needs of the financial sector, which itself has consolidated massively. In the guitar business , too.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
BP had experienced a similar major accident only a few years earlier – the 2005 Texas City Refinery explosion, which claimed 15 lives and injured 170 people. After the 2005 explosion, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board pushed BP to focus more on safety.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 23, 2011
Remember how after Chemical Bank launched the first Automated Teller Machine in the 1960s, waves of bank branches shut down? And remember when banks went online, how waves of local bank branches shut down? In both cases the new technology ended up augmenting, rather than replacing existing channels. This isn't unusual.
Terry Starbucker
JULY 4, 2010
I’m just glad my laboratory is an office, and I don’t have to wear those white coats, or mix chemicals, or put anything under a flame. Scientists collect data, conduct experiments, observe behavior, calibrate measuring devices, and make and test hypothesis, among many other things. ( Popularity: 1% [ ?
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 22, 2014
When Lyndon Faulkner joined as CEO in 2005, he felt the then-$80 million firm had to make acquisitions to grow. CRC Health Group, which by acquiring more than 30 companies since 1995 has become the biggest provider of chemical dependence and behavioral healthcare treatment services in the U.S.
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