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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Alternative Paths of Green Entrepreneurship: The Environmental Legacies of The North Face's Doug Tompkins and Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard

By: Geoffrey Jones and Ben Gettinger
This working paper examines the impact of two entrepreneurs who offered alternative paths to reach their shared goal of a more sustainable world. Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins were respective founders of the prominent outdoor apparel brands Patagonia and The North... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    Forest L. Reinhardt

    Forest L. Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and HBS’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotions and Tenure.

    Professor Reinhardt is interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket... View Details

    Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; beverage; biotechnology; chemical; energy; federal government; food; food processing; forest products; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; paper; petroleum; tourism; transportation
    • October 2019
    • Teaching Note

    Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?

    By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg
    A Teaching Note for the "Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?" case study (HBS#820-048). The case discusses recent controversies regarding how Google manages temporary help agency workers, workers supplied by vendors, and independent contractors ("TVCs"). Such TVCs reportedly... View Details
    Keywords: Workforce; Independent Contractors; Talent Management; Silicon Valley; Google; Employee Attitude; Employee Compensation; Employee Engagement; Future Of Work; Innovation; Innovation And Strategy; Inequality; Talent Acquisition; Labor; Talent and Talent Management; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Employees; Attitudes; Innovation and Management; Human Resources; Information Technology Industry; United States; San Francisco
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    • Apr 29 2016
    • Testimonial

    Blazing Trails in the Digital World

    • 19 Feb 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 19

      PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • May 30, 2019
    • Article

    Twitter Is Showing More Ads Instead of Better Ideas

    By: Scott Duke Kominers
    A social media company that doesn’t know much about its users needs to work harder on its business model. View Details
    Keywords: Twitter; Business Model; Advertising; Strategy; Social Media
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    • August 2020 (Revised September 2020)
    • Case

    Facelift at Olay (A)

    By: Sunil Gupta, Rajiv Lal and Olivia Hull
    By October 2017, Procter & Gamble’s skincare brand Olay has been struggling with declining sales for several years. The team has tried many remedies, but none has returned the brand to growth. As pressure grows from Olay’s competitors, including hundreds of new... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Demographics; Age; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Digital Marketing; Transformation; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; United States; Ohio
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    • February 2021 (Revised April 2024)
    • Case

    Shopify: The Conquest for Chinese E-Commerce

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Avani Patel, Samantha Lin and Ariel Yang
    In mid-2020, Tobias Lütke, CEO of Shopify, faced a critical decision on how to time potential expansion into the China market. Over the prior 15 years, his Canadian software-as-a-service company had grown from a small e-commerce solutions provider to a full service... View Details
    Keywords: Timing; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Service Operations; Business Model; Organizational Design; Change Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Health Pandemics; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Digital Platforms; Alliances; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Internet and the Web; E-commerce; United States; Canada; China
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    • April 2005 (Revised November 2008)
    • Case

    Banco Real: Banking on Sustainability

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
    ABN AMRO REAL made corporate social responsibility central to its brand, adding to customer focus and reflecting its values. Leaders developed the Bank of Value theme and implemented it through activities such as microfinance in poor communities, environmentally... View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
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      Michael Beer

      MICHAEL BEER

      Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

        Archie L. Jones

        Archie Jones is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School, where he currently teaches Venture Capital and Private Equity, Field... View Details

          Frances X. Frei

          Frances Frei is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School. Her research investigates how leaders accelerate performance and design for excellence in leadership, strategy, and operations. She regularly advises senior executives... View Details

          Keywords: airline; banking; fast food; financial services; health care; hotels ＆ motels; management consulting; media; nonprofit industry; professional services; retail financial services; service industry; sports; telecommunications; tourism; travel
          • 20 May 2015
          • News

          The Right Way to Brag About Yourself

          • February 2011 (Revised February 2012)
          • Case

          Online Marketing at Big Skinny

          By: Benjamin Edelman and Scott Duke Kominers
          Describes a wallet maker's application of seven Internet marketing technologies: display ads, algorithmic search, sponsored search, social media, interactive content, online distributors, and A/B testing. Provides concise introductions to the key features of each... View Details
          Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Digital Marketing; Resource Allocation; Marketing Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Internet and the Web; Retail Industry
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          • Web

          Alumni

          shifted to remote work. As you navigate a remote work environment, keep the following best practices in mind to set yourself and your team up for success. Social Media Feeds HBS doesn't go dormant during the summer! We've been busy at... View Details
          • March 2022
          • Case

          In Data We Trust: Be Mobile Africa and Furthering Financial Inclusion Across the African Continent

          By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Pierre Marchesseault
          To Cédric Jeannot, leveraging technology to promote financial inclusion was personal. After no established financial institution would accept his technology platform to lower transaction costs for free, Jeannot launched FinTech company Be Mobile Africa in May 2020.... View Details
          Keywords: Finance; Fintech; Emerging Market; Fundraising; Financial Inclusion; Strategy; Expansion; Management; Entrepreneurship; Personal Finance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Africa; Togo; Nigeria; Ghana
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          • Web

          Publications - Faculty & Research

          Keywords: Retail ; Place Making ; Bookstores ; Industry Evolution ; Digital ; Commoditization ; Organizational Change and Adaptation ; Adaptation ; Business Strategy ; Digital Transformation ; E-commerce ; Distribution Channels ; Civil... View Details
          • 2021
          • Working Paper

          The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States

          By: Shai Bernstein, Rebecca Diamond, Abhisit Jiranaphawiboon, Timothy McQuade and Beatriz Pousada
          We characterize the contribution of immigrants to US innovation, both through their direct productivity as well as through their indirect spillover effects on their native collaborators. To do so, we link patent records to a database containing the first five digits of... View Details
          Keywords: Innovation; Economic Growth; Immigrants; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Patents; Innovation Strategy
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          • January 16, 2020
          • Article

          How Global Leaders Should Think About Solving Our Biggest Problems

          By: Mark R. Kramer, Marc W. Pfitzer and Helge Mahne
          The corporate social conscience will soon be on full display in Davos, Switzerland, where global leaders from business, government, and civil society will assemble on January 21 for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. Hundreds of millions of dollars will be... View Details
          Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Global Range; Partners and Partnerships; Strategy
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          • 17 Aug 2010
          • First Look

          First Look: August 17

          capacity. In an unanticipated finding, however, our analysis raises the possibility that the company's most prolific publishers begin to migrate to the periphery of the intra-firm social network, which may occur because these individuals'... View Details
          Keywords: Martha Lagace