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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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  • May 2022
  • Supplement

Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais
Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Product Positioning; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Social Media; Forecasting and Prediction; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Service Delivery; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Statements; Cost Management; Analysis; Quality; Performance Consistency; Customer Satisfaction; Profit; Family Ownership; Food and Beverage Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia
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  • December 2001
  • Teaching Note

Parenting Magazine TN

By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-291-015). A rewritten version of an earlier teaching note. View Details
Keywords: Money; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Decisions; Cost Accounting; Economic Systems; Negotiation Process; Corporate Accountability; Negotiation Deal; Business Startups; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Journalism and News Industry; Publishing Industry
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  • November 2001 (Revised August 2005)
  • Case

BigEast Bank (A): Credit Card Approval

By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
BigEast is considering adopting a relationship-centric view in its credit card approval process. This would shift the bank's current practice of analyzing applications based on the merits of a single product to one where the customer's existing relationship is... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Forecasting and Prediction; Banks and Banking; Analytics and Data Science; Managerial Roles; Relationships; Adoption; Banking Industry
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  • March 2007
  • Teaching Note

Understanding Customer Profitability at Charles Schwab (TN)

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Teaching note to 106002. View Details
Keywords: Customers; Profit; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Decision Making; Cost; System; Transformation; Budgets and Budgeting; Performance Evaluation; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry
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  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

mainstream (i.e., not SRI funds) investment organizations, we provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. The primary reason survey respondents consider ESG information in investment View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 14

LauHarvard Business School Case 212-026 ATR KimEng is a Philippino asset management business. It is making an important decision on its own strategy going forward: should it stay independent or be taken over by a large bank in the region.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

ethical, and legal standards. A well-regarded financier I know routinely beats out others for deals while remaining a very gracious winner who doesn't swagger and always has a little something to share. His competitors or opponents up end... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

the Carter Mountain decision survived court challenges, the FCC formalized its policies concerning the importation of broadcast signals. In 1966, the Commission required cable operators operating in the 100 largest television markets... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 09 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

Fox News has influenced how companies disclose financial news. Legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on the set in 2016. Source: Wikipedia Commons, CC 3.0) The United States presidential election of 2000 took place in a simpler time. The internet... View Details
Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting
  • January 2008
  • Teaching Note

Pilgrim Bank (A): Statistics Review with Data Desk

By: Frances X. Frei
Teaching Note for 602104. View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Policy; Banks and Banking; Management Teams; Motivation and Incentives; Customers; Mathematical Methods; Service Operations; Banking Industry
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  • 05 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

firm's decision to emphasize a particular strategic orientation can depend on its competitors' orientation choices. Based on two studies of customer, technology, and production orientations, we show that the emphasis a firm places on a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

forthcoming Management Science Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions By: Adner, Ron, Jianqing Chen, and Feng Zhu Abstract— We study compatibility View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

the room in order to force its owner to get out of bed. Beset by media attention and consumer interest but still at least a year away from the ability to debut Clocky, Nanda must navigate a series of challenges and difficult decisions in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

customers by providing them adequate functionality in return for lower prices. The technology of this sort of disruptive innovation offers "good enough" performance along traditional metrics and is supported by a business model that generates attractive View Details
Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring
  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

distribution, where new startups fail within the first three years following entry. This churning emphasizes a new mechanism through which financial sector reforms impact product markets. It is not exclusively better ex ante allocation of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2008
  • Background Note

Equity Options

By: Joshua Coval and Erik Stafford
The goal of this simulation is to understand the reliance of option values on volatility. When an investor trades an option, they are essentially trading volatility. Therefore, much of the focus in this lesson is on forecasting volatility. Students are able to use two... View Details
Keywords: Volatility; Forecasting and Prediction; Stock Options; Investment Return; Price; Market Transactions; Mathematical Methods; Value
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  • November 2010
  • Supplement

Dow's Bid for Rohm and Haas (CW)

By: Benjamin C. Esty
Spreadsheet Supplement for 211020. View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Performance; Joint Ventures; Financial Crisis; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Markets; Sales; Lawsuits and Litigation; Negotiation Deal; Governing and Advisory Boards; Cash Flow; Decisions; Chemical Industry; Kuwait
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  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

conditions. In this case, Western consumers were taking responsibility not for their own health but for the health and safety of workers in a foreign land thousands of miles away. Consumer power has not been that evident as a criterion in shaping the View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 13 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

week in advance of delivery. Looking to determine how personal decisions made for tomorrow differ from decisions made for several days from now, researchers from Harvard Business School and the Analyst... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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