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  • September 2023
  • Teaching Note

Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'

By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 323-057. Patagonia’s change of ownership from a privately held company to a perpetual purpose trust and 501(c)(4) nonprofit in order to use the company’s profit to fight the environmental crisis and be a model for future businesses. View Details
Keywords: Trusts; Business Ventures; Business Organization; Family Business; Restructuring; Change; Disruption; Transition; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Management; Governance; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Innovation Leadership; Labor; Law; Common Law; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Ownership; Ownership Type; Family Ownership; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Value; Value Creation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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  • 28 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

also encourage innovation to solve problems that people haven’t solved before.” Regulations that are too loose can lead to confusion. This was the case in Brazil, where the government chose not to establish... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications
  • 22 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

as well as the subsequent diffusion of new innovations to the immigrants' home countries. In June, Kerr and nine other HBS faculty members spent six days in China to learn more about entrepreneurship in one of the world's fastest-growing... View Details
Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers1011.html#wp11-111 Embracing Paradox Authors:Michael L. Tushman, Wendy K. Smith, and Andy Binns Abstract Trying to resolve the paradox between innovation and the core business only... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and organizational challenges ahead. He created a new narrative for the company in the era of Big Data, putting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

The aversion is equally strong whether tax revenue goes to the U.S. government or back to the experimenter (a “laboratory tax”). We discuss the implications of our results for the relationship between labor supply and taxation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online

Emeritus, Harvard Business School Show Hide Details Concepts Uncovering What Brands Mean to Consumers The Customer Value Proposition as the Foundation for Brand Storytelling The Types of Stories Brands Tell Brand Storytelling Fundamentals Connecting Stories to Culture... View Details
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55833 Managed Ecosystems and Translucent Institutional Logics: Engaging Communities By: Altman, Elizabeth J., Frank Nagle, and Michael Tushman Abstract—When organizations need input into their View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

telecommunications to tobacco and soft drinks. The dangers of excessive market concentration are greater in finance, however, because of the systemic importance of credit to the economy and the now widely held belief that governments must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

my time at HBS to explore how impact investing funds can help scale innovative solutions to permanent supportive housing,” he said. Kwame Assoku (MBA 2026)Kwame was born in Ghana and raised in New Jersey and New York. Throughout his... View Details
  • 22 Jan 2018
  • News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

Services (CMS). CMS is the government agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid, programs that provide health insurance to more than one in three Americans. Due to our size, our actions impact the entire health care system. I collect... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • August 2012 (Revised August 2014)
  • Case

Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (A)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred
Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), a U.S. network of four privately owned oncology focused factory hospitals, was weighing options for growth. CTCA was entirely cancer focused and specialized in treating patients with complex and advanced-stage cancers, who... View Details
Keywords: Cancer; Cancer Treatment; Health Care; Healthcare; Accountability; Outcomes; Outcomes Measurement; Outcomes Reporting; Hub And Spoke Cancer Care; Hub And Spoke; Hub-and-spoke; Focused Factory; Mission and Purpose; Private Ownership; For-Profit Firms; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Policy; Business Model; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Advertising; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; United States
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  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

research is widely confirmed throughout the essays of the Handbook. Chandler was primarily concerned with understanding the growth of large, diversified, and professionally managed firms from the late 19th century. The growth of big business, and its role in generating... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

heterogeneity within each BRIC. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-083.pdf Innovating at the World's Crossroads: How Multicultural Networks Promote Creativity Author:Roy Y. J. Chua Abstract This research examines the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Arthur Rock

to HBS in 2003 lead to the creation of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurism. He and his wife Toni Rembe also founded the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University. His deft touch has left an imprint on hundreds of... View Details
  • Web

What Happens When Company Tweets Get Political | Working Knowledge

05-056, May 2025. Access the paper Featured Faculty Elisabeth Kempf Jaime and Raquel Gilinski Associate Professor of Business Administration Article By : Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette Topics: Communication Government and Politics... View Details
  • Web

2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Professors at Harvard University, a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of both the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is an expert on innovation and organizational... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 20, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49873 forthcoming Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Economic Development U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—High-skilled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

suggest important strategic considerations for managers selecting supplier factories and provide key insights for the design of transnational sustainability governance regimes. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

commercial innovation in chemistry, advanced materials, and agro‐sciences. But if Dow's long history of innovation is impressive, the greatest change in the past few years has been the company's use of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne