Introduction The project provides Dow Chemical with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become the leading petrochemical company in Argentina as well as in Latin America. In addition‚ the petrochemical sector in Argentina is also an oligopoly‚ posing a low business risk for this project. 1.1 Key advantages of the Bahia Blanca petrochemical pole • The PBB cracker is gas-based making it less costly to operate as compared to a naphtha-based cracker; • There is an excess demand for Polyethylene
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A Brief Look at the History of the Dow Jones Industrial Average Not much had changed in the twelve years between Mr. Dow’s eleven stocks’ first appearance in the daily financial bulletin‚ Customer’s Afternoon Letter‚ and the twelve ‘smokestack’ companies that debuted on the Dow Jones Industrial Average on May 26‚ 1896. An interesting thing to notice is how nearly the entire list is populated by industrial stocks. This is a far cry from the commodity and retail rich list of today. Moving ahead
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Case study This essay will look at a case study based on a company by the name of Dow Corning and what problems they faced when introducing the matrix structure to their company. It will also contain possible methods that could have minimised the impact of the problems that had arisen during the course of the development. The matrix structure as defined by David Needle (2010 p. 185) is a combination of the customer orientation of the project team and the economies of scale of the functional
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Individuals who spend a majority of the working day on the go tend to need access to certain information in real-time. Some of the most common occupations are sales‚ insurance‚ and telecommunications. In the case of Dow Corning‚ the sales force has been described as not adaptive to change unless it relates to increasing income and benefits time management. (O’Brien‚ & Marakas‚ 2011). Some of the advantages of implementing mobile Customer Relationship Management tools are having more information prior
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OTIS LE#1 (October 31‚ 2012) • Dow Jones industrial average with the largest market cap is Exxon (XOM). • Dow Jones Industrial average with the smallest market cap is Alcoa Inc. (AA). • The company with the highest P/E ratio is AT&T (T). Initially our process of choosing stocks fell into two high-level categories; a look-back and a look forward approach. Many of our stocks (AAPL‚ ORCL‚ IBM) were picked after much research into “the numbers.” Members of our group that looked at historical
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Once there was a boy named Alfred Dow. He is tall‚ strong‚ happy go lucky‚ stripling‚ is a hard worker‚ and the women never say he was listless. He loves to make things with his hands‚ and hates to be inside. He lived on a farm with his family‚ and when they play there is no way they can’t be gambol. The farm was a sojourn for the summer and fall. Most of his family is itinerant among farms. The family farms where sequestered from each other by about 1 mile. He will never forget the fall of 1972
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management and has become a benchmark of how to handle a crisis. The Dow Corning silicone breast implant crisis has become a benchmark of how not to handle a crisis. There are a number of valuable lessons learned from this particular crisis. Both crises dealt with public health and safety issues‚ but both were handled very differently. Because of this‚ Dow Corning’s reputation and image suffered considerably. As a result‚ Dow Corning is still suffering today from a crisis that began in the late
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Executive Summary No organization could be further from the image of the "tree hugger" than the world ’s largest chemical producer‚ Dow Chemical Company. Yet for all of industry ’s superficial acknowledgement of the need for environmental responsibility‚ no other organization has so completely focused on balancing financial‚ social and environmental results. Dow has incorporated a highly successful e-commerce strategy‚ not only for the benefits it can yield in business results‚ but also as part
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Dow Corning Silicone Breast Implants Albert Tapia Dr. Robert Vega BUAD 5304 Ethics July 5th 2015 Dow Corning Dow Corning Corporation was a start up venture between Dow Chemical Company and Corning Inc. in 1943. The goal of Dow Corning Corporation was to create and market a new material‚ silicone. The joint venture proved successful‚ with nearly 10‚000 employees and revenues upwards of $2 billion‚ it accomplished this goal with the collaboration of Dow Chemical and Corning‚ both interested in increasing
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Ethics of Penn Square and Dow Corning Ethics of Penn Square Bank and the Dow Corning Bankruptcy Penn Square Bank: What were the ethical pressures on the firm concerning documentation‚ credit extension‚ and revenue recognition that lead to the final collapse? What should have been done to reduce or offset these pressures? Penn Square Bank was a small commercial bank in Oklahoma City which made high-risk financial loans during the late 1970s in the oil boom. The bank ultimately collapsed
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