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Multidivisional Form

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DuPont

DuPont turned an explosives combination into a science-based multidivisional corporation by joining product divisions, return-on-investment accounting, centralized research, and capital review. Those capabilities made diversification and large technical projects governable while repeatedly leaving workers, communities, ecosystems, and future stewards outside the account used to authorize action.

How can a technically complex enterprise allocate capital, measure business performance, and diversify without losing control or excluding harms that cross business boundaries?