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  • March 2023 (Revised September 2023)
  • Case

Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'

By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney
In September 2022, Yvon Chouinard, the iconoclastic founder of outdoor apparel company Patagonia, announced a new ownership model for his company. Chouinard and his family had held complete control of the company's voting and non-voting stock since its founding 50... 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; Leadership; Labor; Law; Common Law; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; 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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  • 21 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

donated to nonprofits, Accion Chicago is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to build communities through entrepreneurship. We all know that small business is the growth engine of any economy. This is even more true for distressed... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 16 Sep 2015
  • Op-Ed

The Real Duty of the Board of Directors

We routinely hear board directors, CEOs, and CFOs of publicly-listed corporations refer to shareholders as owners of the corporation. Under this thinking, it is natural to conclude that the board’s duty is to its shareholders. Contrary to... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans

    Peter Tufano

    Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; credit card; education industry; energy; federal government; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; microfinance; mining; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; real estate; retail financial services; state government; utilities; video games
    • January 2024
    • Case

    ECOALF: Fashion for the Future

    By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz and María José Satrústegui
    ECOALF, a Spanish fashion brand and sustainability pioneer, aimed to tackle the industry's challenges of excessive consumption and production. The brand's mission was to create timeless apparel exclusively from recycled and eco-responsible materials, matching the... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Decisions; Business Earnings; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Communication Intention and Meaning; Values and Beliefs; Mission and Purpose; Competition; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Social Marketing; Marketing Channels; E-commerce; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Fashion Industry; Spain; Germany; Italy; Europe; United States
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    • January 1994 (Revised June 1994)
    • Case

    Dean Witter, Discover & Co.

    By: Dwight B. Crane and W. James Whalen
    Early in 1993, Sears was in the process of spinning off its Dean Witter, Discover subsidiary. This subsidiary consisted of a securities brokerage that was acquired in 1981 and also the Discover Card, a general purpose credit card, the firm introduced in 1985. The key... View Details
    Keywords: Valuation; Business Subsidiaries; Initial Public Offering; Credit Cards; Corporate Strategy; Asset Pricing; Financial Services Industry
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    • October 2017
    • Article

    Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971, The Concept... View Details
    Keywords: Business Admnistration; Market Structure; Firm Structure; Market Efficiency; Competency and Skills; Organizational Structure; Strategy
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    • 23 Jan 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

    Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding

      Leslie A. Perlow

      Leslie A. Perlow is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. She leads the Crafting Your Life Special Project, dedicated to helping individuals make purposeful life choices while gathering... View Details

      • 20 Jun 2011
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

      To Nancy F. Koehn, the history of the Irish rock band U2 has it all as a business case study: teamwork, leadership, creative destruction, branding, and strategy. Koehn's case "Bono and U2", co-written with Katherine Miller and Rachel K. Wilcox, reconstructs the story... View Details
      Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
      • 2014
      • Article

      Framework for China's Novel Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy

      By: Robert G. Eccles and Peijun Duan
      China’s sustainable development faces three challenges: first, the follow-up momentum of sustainable economic growth and economic transformation is insufficient; second, some resources and environment loads have reached their limits; third, some products affecting the... View Details
      Keywords: Sustainable Development; Integrated Report; New Evaluation System; China
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      • 16 Dec 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

      internalizing what's being taught. What do we need to know in a corporate setting about how we evaluate the people we're trying to teach, and evaluate the teacher as well? DL: I think it's very difficult to evaluate for some of the softer... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • December 2005 (Revised January 2007)
      • Case

      Ben & Jerry's: Preserving Mission & Brand within Unilever

      By: James E. Austin and James Quinn
      In the months after Ben & Jerry's was acquired by Unilever, Ben & Jerry's head social mission faces challenges and opportunities unique in the company's history, including: how to manage employee morale; whether to include synthetic ingredients to meet consumer... View Details
      Keywords: Brands and Branding; Problems and Challenges; Mergers and Acquisitions; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Management Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards; Value Creation; Corporate Governance; Employee Relationship Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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      • January 2010 (Revised April 2011)
      • Case

      Google Inc.

      By: Benjamin Edelman and Thomas R. Eisenmann
      Describes Google's history, business model, governance structure, corporate culture, and processes for managing innovation. Reviews Google's recent strategic initiatives and the threats they pose to Yahoo, Microsoft, and others. Asks what Google should do next. One... View Details
      Keywords: Digital Marketing; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Network Effects; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Information Technology Industry
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      • October 2013 (Revised August 2016)
      • Case

      NOWaccount

      By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Lauren Barley

      It was September 2013, and NOWaccount Network Corporation (NOW®) co-founders John Hayes and Lara Hodgson were putting the final touches on the presentation deck for their annual shareholders' meeting. Along with co-founder Stacey Abrams, the pair had designed NOW's... View Details

      Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Finance; Entrepreneurship
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      • Career Coach

      Elizabeth Miller

      Elizabeth enjoys helping others find their purpose and passion in work. Through helping you reflect on the pros and cons of your past roles, Elizabeth can provide valuable advice on identifying a role that will align with your natural... View Details
      • January 2009 (Revised May 2009)
      • Case

      College Summit: Rethinking the Relationship Between Growth and Impact

      By: Stacey M. Childress and Geoff Eckman Marietta
      College Summit, a nonprofit organization "committed to the day when every student who can make it in college makes it to college," was faced with an important strategic decision. After growing rapidly at more than 30% a year for the last several years, founder and CEO,... View Details
      Keywords: Secondary Education; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Education Industry
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      • January 1983 (Revised May 1984)
      • Case

      Beliefs of Borg-Warner

      Shows how the Borg-Warner Corporation developed a statement of values and beliefs under the leadership of its chief executive officer, James F. Bere. The "Beliefs," a set of general principles intended to guide business behavior, now must be given operational meaning... View Details
      Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Business Processes
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      • 04 May 2023
      • Blog Post

      Sustainability: Career Advice from HBS Career Coach Hillary Mann

      Hillary Mann is a Corporate Relations Director in the Career and Professional Development Office covering Consumer Products, Retail & Luxury Goods, Hospitality, Agribusiness, and Sustainability. She enjoys helping students and alumni... View Details
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      By: Rebecca M. Henderson
      My work focuses on two tightly related topics. I explore why purpose or mission driven firms might be significantly more productive and creative than their more conventional rivals, focusing particularly on the role of trust in building path dependent relational... View Details