Weber, Eugene

Eugen Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 (Stanford Stanford University Press, 1976), p. 156. 

As Du Pont and especially Dow overtook Union Carbide, the first company to commercialize petrochemicals turned to a strategy of unrelated diversification and soon paid the price. After an attempt to rationalize its new strategy of unrelated diversification proved to be technologically barren and financially unsuccessful, the company refocused on its chemical businesses, only to be destroyed by a corporate raider. In these years. Allied Chemical had all but departed from the chemical competitive arena, in part because its initial CEO, Eugene Weber, had scorned R D decades earlier. It devolved into a division producing specialty chemicals for Allied Signal s automotive and aircraft units. 

For Eugene Weber s legacy, see Alfred D. Chandler, Development, Diversification, and Decentralization, in Philip E. Freeman, ed.. Postwar Economic Trends in the United States (New York Harper Bros., 1960), pp. 275-277. See also Derdak, ed.. International Directory, vol. 1 (1988), pp. 414-416 quotation from p. 414. 

First proposed by James Weber and Eugene Myers before Celera existed and later eagerly adopted by the company. See Weber, J.L., Myers, E.W. Human whole-genome shotgun sequencing. Genome Res. 1997, 7, 401 09. 

Walter J. Weber, Jr., Weilin Huang, and Eugene J. Leboeuf... 

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