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be such a thing as limited liability? • What more can UCC or Dow Chemicals do? • Should the Indian Government bear a substantial portion of the responsibility? • Should criminal cases be brought against local Government officials as well as Warren Anderson? Responsible Care • Direct Result of Bhopal Tragedy • All major chemical companies signed on • Objective to make the chemical industry serve society better Responsible Care (Dow) • Our industry creates products and services that make life

Introduction The case presents an American company Dow, producer of commodity chemicals, who is in the final stages of acquiring another company Rohm and Haas. Dow’s CEO has been working for four years to transform Dow from a producer of low-value, highly cyclical commodity chemicals to a producer of high-value, specialty chemicals and advanced materials. Rohm is a perfect match for Dow in respect of the strategic and financial perspective. Dow is also pursuing another key deal with Kuwait’s Petrochemical

very specific niche. Your clients are industrial companies- that is, they sell primarily to other manufacturing firms and government agencies- that have developed- as unintended outcomes of their R&D programs- products for the retail trade. Dow Chemical Company, while not a client of your agency, is an almost ideal example of this type of firm.

Bhopal Gas Tragedy – Who is responsible? It was a normal day in Bhopal – the heart of India. Fathers coming back from work, mothers cooking dinner for the family, some kids studying and most playing out in the gallis (small streets in India). After dinner they all go into their world of dreams. Kids dreaming of their games the next day, pregnant ladies dreaming of the fast approaching days when their babies would be born into this world, worker fathers dreaming of saving more money for their kids’

absolutely detrimental. Chemical leaks are a rather harmful accident, especially in industrialized factories. This was the case in 1984 when Union Carbide’s safety mechanism failed to detain three tanks of Methyl Isocyanate (MCI for short). As a repercussion, a massive chemical leak of white fog polluted the city of Bhopal’s atmosphere within a moment. The tragedy of the Bhopal Chemical Leak leads to the world’s curiosity of what happened on that day, why exactly chemicals– such as Methyl Isocyanate

HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL PROJECT December 2nd of 1984 marked the eve of one of the world’s most extensive and deadliest industrial disasters, known now, thirty years later, as ‘The Bhopal Gas Tragedy’ or ‘The Bhopal Disaster’, among others. Essentially: between twenty-seven and forty tons of methyl isocyanate gas and other assorted chemicals leaked from a tank at a plant owned by Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL), the Indian subsidiary of the American company Union Carbide Corporation (UCC), itself a

1. Title of the Case: ABBOTT LABORATORIES: DRUG PRICING CHUTZPAH 2. Statement of the Problem: * Is the increase of the anti-AIDS drug Norvir by Abbott justifiable? 3. Statement of Relevant Facts from the Case i. The company (Abbott) raised its anti-AIDS drug Norvir by 400 percent unless the product is used in conjunction with other Abbott products where there will be no price increase. ii. Norvir is generally too toxic for safe use as a protease inhibitor however works

by 19%. This has aided in solving the problem of transportation from the previous constructed bridge and its traffic congestion and reduces life cycle cost to maximize project performance (OGC, 2007 p.39) EXAMPLE FROM PRIVATE ORGANISATION The Dow Chemical Company over the last four years has developed a vision, functional systems, and tools, for the ‘value management’ of its Intellectual Assets (IA). This initiative has developed some competencies in the area of ‘measuring and valuing’ IA, and in

One company in particular, Dow Chemical, was the leader in polystyrene and fueled the high demand during WW2.) When the use and production of polystyrene boomed during WW2, polystyrene was being used in items from radio transmitters to plastic bottles. Later in the 1950s Dow Chemical Company scientist, Ray McIntire invented the material that changed the world of plastics, the material we all know a

Executive Summary Rohm & Haas recently introduced a new product, Kathon MWX, in order to exploit an untapped portion (reservoir capacity under 1,000 gallons) of the biocide market. Even with limited competition within this segment, Kathon MWX has not been able to produce its annual target revenues, only capitalizing on roughly 6% of said target in a 5 month period. Large-scale distributors, who exhibit the most buyer power and influence over end customers in the industry, threaten manufacturer