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Jordan Blum

Dow’s new CEO is ‘blessed to be stressed’—and steering a turnaround amid oil market upheaval

Dow COO Karen Carter wearing a white lab coat and sitting while smiling (Credit: Courtesy of Dow)

More than 30 years after joining Dow Inc. as an intern, Karen Carter became its CEO this year, taking the helm of a company grappling with financial losses, a corporate restructuring, thousands of layoffs, and the shuttering of some European plants.

Not that she hadn’t signed up for this. Carter took over the CEO role July 1 after helping create and implement the “transform to outperform” strategy announced in January.

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