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- March 2023 (Revised September 2023)
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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.)
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- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
The corporate histories of Apple, Coca-Cola, and Honda are well-documented stories that offer a window into the nuances of business in a particular place, at a particular time. As such, they're invaluable resources for research that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization - Recruiting
artist. Her art and educational workshops challenge and encourage people to have meaningful conversations about social justice. She has partnered with many offices throughout Harvard Business School and here offers her expertise,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
the next decade. And I hope that through their research they'll uncover ways in which we can equip ourselves with tools that can help us navigate through complex ethical choices. Linda A. Hill The most important trend of the 21st century... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2023
- Book
Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them
controlled. You Might Also Like: The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both? Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work Corruption: New Insights for Fighting an Age-Old View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
Harvard Business School Dean Kim B. Clark made these remarks to the National Press Club on February 26.What I'd like to do is talk about a topic that I think touches the very heart of our society: the issue of corporate misconduct and the... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
(93) Budgets and Budgeting (4) Buildings and Facilities (4) Business Conglomerates (1) Business Cycles (6) Business Divisions (7) Business... View Details
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
business leaders. Those who had until then been willing to either support Trump or at least mute their criticisms clearly felt that his responses to the protests and violence made that stance no longer sustainable. For example,... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
require for economic policies and institutions. He joined the HBS faculty from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an associate professor of legal studies and business ethics... View Details
- 2018
- Working Paper
Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms
By: Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers
We provide the first large-sample evidence on the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. We find that on average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic “patent trolls.” NPEs sue cash-rich firms—and target cash in... View Details
Keywords: Patent Trolls; NPEs; PAEs; Innovation; Patents; Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation; Innovation and Invention; Corporate Finance
Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-002, July 2014. (Revised June 2018.)
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Shad Hall | About
throughout his career, generously offering his knowledge, insights, and friendship to the School’s leaders. In 1987, during the tenure of Dean John H. McArthur, Shad pledged the largest gift in HBS history at the time, to endow the View Details
- 19 Jul 2017
- News
Making Sense Of Shareholder Value: 'The World's Dumbest Idea'
- 05 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
What You Need to Know about SVMP
The HBS Summer Venture in Management Program, an immersive, weeklong experience for rising college seniors, was developed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education. During their time on campus, SVMPers gain View Details
- 12 Nov 2014
- News
How to Make Corporate Boards More Effective
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
because American managers typically separate their social and work lives, possibly reflecting the influence of the Protestant work ethic tradition of separating the personal from the professional. Chinese managers have less trouble... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Events - Health Care
the practical realities of navigating market demands, regulatory hurdles, and ethical considerations while separating genuine opportunities from overinflated promises. If you're serious about creating AI innovations that work in the real... View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
the causes of those violations and potential remedies. Restoring a healthy balance in how scholars conceive of business may provide one component of a remedy. Scholarly attention to ethics and values does... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 03 Jan 2014
- News