Dow Chemicals

Dow Chemical's CEO William Stavropoulos'
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William Stavropoulos began his career with Dow Chemical in 1967 as a research chemist. He worked his way up through the company culminating with being appointed CEO on November 1, 1995. He led the company five years before stepping down from that position when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 60 in November of 2000. Under his leadership, Dow Chemical made a major transformation from a consumer products company to an industrial products company (Hodgetts, 1999).…