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Top stock in the DJIA: How DuPont does it
The chemical giant suffered along with the rest of the economy during the downturn, but it's now hiring. CEO Ellen Kullman discusses its rebound, and its future. by Beth Kowitt, writer-reporter...
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Immelt: GE to 'double down' on clean energy in China
GE CEO Jeff Immelt, Dupont CEO Ellen Kullman, and Sinopec CEO Fu Chengyu, offer ideas for solving one of China's biggest problems: the environment. By Brian Dumaine, senior editor-at-large FORTUNE --...
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Transcript: Fortune Global Forum panel on innovation
Fortune Global Forum Innovation: Building a Sustainable Future Panelists: Fu Chengyu, Chairman, Sinopec Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO, GE Ellen Kullman, Chair and CEO, DuPont Moderator: Andy Serwer,...
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The women who STEM-ed their way to power
One of my favorite days of the year at Fortune is MPW day, the day the list of Fortune‘s Most Powerful Women in business comes out. It's a great celebration of women in power, of women in business...
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DuPont CEO on what’s driving the company into the future
DuPont was founded 212 years ago as a chemical company. But in her five years as CEO and chairman, Ellen Kullman has remade the $36 billion-in-revenue operation into an organization that capitalizes on...
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Nelson Peltz’s plan to bust up DuPont doesn’t add up
Activist investors can’t go after crappy companies. Bad businesses are really hard to turn around, especially if you are an outside shareholder. If a company is truly in trouble, a spin-off or boosting...
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Corporate raider Nelson Peltz simply can’t resist women
Does Nelson Peltz have a problem with women? The billionaire activist investor, who takes stakes in big-name companies and demands board seats and strategic overhauls, is now gunning for DuPont DD ,...
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DuPont’s earnings disappointment: A win for raider Nelson Peltz?
On Tuesday, it looked like corporate-raider-turned-activist hedge fund manager Nelson Peltz scored a victory in his battle with DuPont. The chemical giant announced that it had earned $4.01 a share in...
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In fight over DuPont, CEO Ellen Kullman can point to a stellar track record
DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman will be put to the test this week. The chemical giant’s proxy vote is scheduled for May 13. How shareholders will vote--either with DuPont or its rival, activist hedge fund...
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Ellen Kullman’s quest to make DuPont great again
This article was originally published in the April 15, 2010 issue of Fortune magazine. The announcement that Ellen Kullman would rise from DuPont’s DD executive ranks to CEO within weeks couldn’t have...
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Ellen Kullman retires after 27 years at DuPont
Ellen Kullman is retiring as chairman and CEO of chemical giant DuPont DD after six years at the helm. Kullman, who ranked fifth on Fortune's 2015 list of Most Powerful Women in Business, will be...
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DuPont’s CEO Ellen Kullman wasn’t pushed out by Nelson Peltz
DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman, who had been at the chemical giant for nearly three decades, had ran it for nearly seven years, and had recently survived a brutal fight with an activist investor, decided to...
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Lessons from Kullman’s ouster
Dupont CEO DD Ellen Kullman won the battle, but lost the war. Her hard-fought victory in a proxy fight against activist Nelson Peltz was celebrated in corporate boardrooms around the country (she even...
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Ellen Kullman’s resignation exposes one major failure at DuPont
Of the many surprises surrounding Ellen Kullman's abrupt departure as DuPont's CEO on Monday, the greatest is being largely overlooked in the news coverage: It's the company's utter succession failure....
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Ellen Kullman’s ouster at DuPont should worry GE’s Jeff Immelt
When DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman announced her resignation yesterday afternoon, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt must have swallowed pretty hard. Just hours earlier, activist investor Nelson Peltz had...
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Another suicidal board? How DuPont’s directors failed Ellen Kullman
Investors, analysts, employees, and the business media were all equally startled by the exit of DuPont's accomplished CEO Ellen Kullman this month, just one quarter after her triumphant proxy battle...
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Apple’s earnings, baseball, and a Fed meeting — 5 things to know this week
Hello friends and Fortune readers. This week, the market’s eyes turn once again to the leaders of the U.S. Federal Reserve who will meet to set the nation’s monetary policy for the second-to-last time...
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Gunboat diplomacy and Apple earnings — 5 things to know today
Hello friends and Fortune readers. Wall Street stock futures are mixed Tuesday in the absence of major international news overnight. The dollar is also flat against the euro, with markets unimpressed...
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DuPont Names ‘Breakup Expert’ Edward D. Breen CEO and Chairman
On Monday morning, chemical giant DuPont made it official: Edward D. Breen is the company’s new CEO and chairman, effective immediately. Breen has served as interim CEO since Ellen Kullman stepped down...
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Why the Dow-DuPont Merger is Bad For America
Unless you are an investment banker, it's hard to feel good about the deal to merge Dow and DuPont, two storied American science companies with 330 years of history between them. The plan is to combine...
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