Du Pont: The Birth of the Modern Multidivisional Corporation HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL August 2008 RICHARD S. TEDLOW DAVID RUBEN The year 1919 should have been a very good one for E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. World War I had blessed the 117-year-old‚ Delaware-based explosives manufacturer with the kind of booming growth that only an arms-maker in a global conflagration can dream of. The company had then leveraged this wartriggered glut of cash‚ plants‚ and personnel to accelerate its
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Samuel Francis Du Pont played perhaps the most influential role in the direction that the United States Navy has taken in the past 200 years. His skill as a naval officer helped the US to win wars‚ and his efforts to improve the nation’s Navy have proven vital in the development of what is today the most powerful navy the world has ever seen. Du Pont was born in New Jersey on the 27th of September in the year of 1803 into a very renowned family. His uncle was the founder of a successful gunpowder
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The case “Du Pont Kevlar Aramid Industrial Fiber (Abridged)” states the development history of Du Pont’s products‚ and focuses on investing and marketing of Kevlar. Kevlar is a fiber which Howard W. Swank‚ general manager of Du Pont’s Textile Fibers Department‚ and other Textile Fibers Department’s managers were keen on. Kevlar is based on the former products of Du Pont‚ such as nylon‚ and Nomex Aramid fiber. Kevlar’s development was closely related to that of Nomex. It is a much stronger and
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Thoma Bravo – Citect Corporation (HBS 9-209-022) Study Questions 1. Do you think TB or Schneider would create more value as the owner of Citect? 2. TB would assume what risks if they are the winning bidder? 3. Should TB continue to bid on Citect and at what price? Are the expected ROIs and IRRs to TB sufficient at your revised bid amount? (* note: a detailed evaluation model will be constructed during the class session *) Study Questions 1. Is Newell just another conglomerate? How
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Applied Research on Creative Du Pont Analysis System in Listed Companies CHENG Lamei‚ TANG Bin School of Business and Management‚ Chang Chun University of Technology‚ P.R. China‚ 130012 chenglamei1962@126.com Abstract: The theory of traditional Du Pont Financial Analysis System is based on the purpose of maximizing stockholders’ equity and the core evaluating indicator of Du Pont Financial Analysis System is “Return on Equity”‚ therefore‚ it reflects concerns on maintaining and adding values on
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Case: Land Securities Group (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS Case Number: 9-105-014 Topic: Financial Reporting and Control Description: A U.K. real estate firm‚ required to adopt international accounting standards (IAS) by 2005‚ must change the reporting of its primary asset (investment property) from the revaluation model under U.K. GAAP to either the cost or fair-value model under IAS. This would have a number of effects on European investment property firms‚ including
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FINS5530 HBS Case Assignment Semester 2‚ 2013 Instructor: Lixiong Guo Readings: 1. Note on Bank Loans. 2. US Bank of Washington case. Assignment: Please prepare a Credit Proposal Memo similar to the one shown in Exhibit 1 of “Note on Bank Loans”. Given the limited information you have from the case‚ you are not expected to include all components of Exhibit 1. The following is a suggested structure of your report: Purpose of the credit extension o Keep this part short
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HBS Case Report: Shenzhen Development Bank Contents Executive Summary This report provides an analysis and evaluation of Newbridge’s proposed investment into Shenzhen Development Bank. Methods of analysis include an assessment of the bank’s financial performance‚ examining factors such as its asset quality‚ earning capability and capital adequacy. It also provides an in-depth analysis into the appropriateness of the price Newbridge must pay for the
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W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on February 23‚ 1868‚ in Great Barrington‚ Massachusetts‚ to Alfred and Mary Silvina (née Burghardt) Du Bois. Mary Silvina Burghardt’s family was part of the very small free black population of Great Barrington‚ having long owned land in the state; she was descended from Dutch‚ African and English ancestors. William Du Bois’s maternal great-grandfather was Tom Burghardt‚ a slave (born in West Africa around 1730) who was held by the Dutch
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HBS 9-501-050 Customer Value Measurement at Nortel Networks ’’ Optical Networks Division Nortel Networks was a global player in telephony‚ data and wireless and wireline Internet solutions. Maureen Conroy and Nathalie Sauve‚ members of the Customer Value Management (CVM) Team at Nortel Networks Optical Networks‚ must recommend one of three customer value measurement methodologies to ON President Greg Mumford. In December of 1997‚ ON took a “right-angle turn” ’’ innovative cultural‚ operational
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