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- 24 Jul 2013
- News
Pro-Baby, but Stingy With Money to Support Them
- 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
Trelstad, Brian, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris, and Susan Pinckney. "Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'." Harvard Business School Case 323-057, March 2023. (Revised September 2023.)
- 12 Mar 2020
- Video
Muhammad Alagil
Muhammad Alagil, Chairman of Jarir Investment in Saudi Arabia, discusses the decision to go public in 2003, which he argues was due to family dynamics and the desire to ensure the continuity of the... View Details
- February 2017
- Teaching Plan
Dhamani Jewels: Becoming a Global Luxury Brand
By: Lynda Applegate
Dhamani started as a loose gemstone dealer in 1969 in Jaipur, India. By the 2000s, it was headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and had expanded into diamonds and retail. The family business was now in its second generation of leadership and aimed to become a... View Details
- 23 Apr 2024
- Cold Call Podcast
Amazon in Seattle: The Role of Business in Causing and Solving a Housing Crisis
- July 2010 (Revised September 2023)
- Case
Werner von Siemens and the Electric Telegraph
By: Geoffrey Jones and Bjoern von Siemens
This case describes the nineteenth century founding by Werner Siemens of the Siemens electrical business in Germany. Werner's dual role as inventor and entrepreneur is explored as he created one of the world's first multinational enterprises, whose growth initially... View Details
Keywords: Business Organization; Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Growth and Development Strategy; Electronics Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Germany
Jones, Geoffrey, and Bjoern von Siemens. "Werner von Siemens and the Electric Telegraph." Harvard Business School Case 811-004, July 2010. (Revised September 2023.)
- February 2016 (Revised April 2020)
- Case
In the Name of Democracy? The Rise and Decline of India's Congress Party
By: Akshay Mangla and Jonathan Schlefer
In 1950 it looked highly doubtful that Indian democracy would hold—typical family income was $6 a month, only about 15% of the population was literate, there were deep religious and ethnic differences, and more than a dozen national languages were spoken. But after a... View Details
Keywords: Congress Party; Economic Development; Democratization; Economic Reform; Economic Systems; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies; Development Economics; India
Mangla, Akshay, and Jonathan Schlefer. "In the Name of Democracy? The Rise and Decline of India's Congress Party." Harvard Business School Case 716-068, February 2016. (Revised April 2020.)
- 10 Nov 2015
- News
Founders’ vision keeps engine running
- July 1998 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Anderson Steel Service, Inc.
By: John A. Davis
Explores the management of family and business issues and helps to identify a range of topics with which families in business wrestle. Describes a dilemma faced by sixty-eight-year-old Charles Anderson, the semi-retired founder of the company and the father of three... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Family Business; Problems and Challenges; Business or Company Management; Family and Family Relationships; Strategy; Steel Industry
Davis, John A. "Anderson Steel Service, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 899-011, July 1998. (Revised May 2005.)
- 04 Feb 2020
- Video
Dr. Manu Chandaria
Manu Chandaria, Chair of the Comcraft Group based in Kenya,describes the challenge of managing his far-flung enterprise with family members doing in business in a number of different locations, including... View Details
- 2025
- Working Paper
With a Little Help from My Family: Informal Startup Financing
By: Brian K. Baik, Johan Ludvig S. Karlsen and Katja Kisseleva
Using Norwegian administrative data, we identify family equity investments in startups
and examine their effects on investor returns and firm behavior. Informal investors
earn lower returns than external individuals, and the firms they back are less
likely to secure... View Details
Keywords: Early Stage Finance; Informal Investment; Household Finance; Risk Taking; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Personal Finance; Family and Family Relationships; Business Startups; Investment; Norway
Baik, Brian K., Johan Ludvig S. Karlsen, and Katja Kisseleva. "With a Little Help from My Family: Informal Startup Financing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-053, April 2025.
- August 2019 (Revised November 2021)
- Case
Helena Divišová
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Helena Divišová (MBA, 2016) decided to return home to the Czech Republic after graduation to be near her father who became seriously ill soon after she started HBS. She had considered leaving HBS immediately to help run his business, but her father—who grew up in the... View Details
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Helena Divišová." Harvard Business School Case 220-020, August 2019. (Revised November 2021.)
- September 2018
- Supplement
Advent International: Kroton Investment
By: Victoria Ivashina, Priscilla Zogbi and Ruth Kostas
Keywords: Private Equity; Acquisition; IPO; Valuation; Education; Distance Learning; Turnaround; Growth; Exit; PE; Buyer; Middle-class; Low Income; K-12; Entrepreneur; Family Business; University; College; Consolidation; Fragmentation; Penetration; Value; Shares; Control; Negotiation; Equity; Transaction; Board; Majority; Minority; Post-secondary; Leverage; Campus; Deal; Shareholder; Tag Along
- 04 Feb 2020
- Video
Dr. Manu Chandaria
Manu Chandaria, Chair of the Comcraft Group in Kenya, explains the importance of maintaining consistency in one’s core values and that, in family businesses, these values extend both to company- and... View Details
- 27 May 2022
- Video
Celebrating the Harvard Business School Class of 2022
- 05 Jan 2021
- Video
Beatriz Fernández
Beatriz Fernández, Co-Founder and Manager of Crepes & Waffles S.A., discusses the important and vastly different roles her children play in the family business and how this has contributed to the growth of the company. View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Video
Shinta Widjaja Kamdani
Shinta Kamdani, owner of Indonesian-based consumer products and energy company Sintesa Group, describes the four E's of her corporate value system - empowerment, entrepreneurship, excellence, and empathy, which are derived from her family values. View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- Video
Thai Lee - Making A Difference
- 08 Aug 2016
- Video