The soot king.

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      CABOT Corp. 001013580 CBT
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      BODMAN, Samuel W., 1938-2018
    • Abstract:
      The article presents information on Cabot Corp., a $1.6 billion (sales) manufacturer of carbon black and other industrial chemicals. Samuel Bodman, the 60-year-old ex-college professor who has been running Cabot since 1987, doesn't want to hear from investment bankers. Bodman started out teaching chemical engineering at MIT. Then he worked as a venture capitalist and spent 17 years rising through the ranks at Fidelity Investments, eventually becoming president. But he seems to be an alchemist at heart, bent on hiring people to invent things. Two years ago, eight decades after carbon black was first added to rubber, Cabot came out with a new use of carbon black in rubber that reduces leaks in tires.