We collaborate with corporate affiliates to disseminate illuminating research findings, inform students of current industry challenges and opportunities, and elevate innovations and bold ideas that accelerate responsible business. Cases are conceived, developed, written, and published on various subjects ranging from entrepreneurship and strategy to finance and marketing. Each case includes a teaching note for use in the classroom.

Truck

Perpetual Purpose Trust and Organically Grown Company: Rethinking Corporate Ownership for the Future

by Laura Tyson, Steen Thomsen, Robert Strand, Emily Pelissier, Eva Gurfein Borge

July 1, 2024

Textiles

Waste not, want not: Eliminating Patagonia's Pre- and Post-Consumer Textile Waste

by Rachel Dzombak, Clayton Critcher, Henry W. Chesbrough, Kate O’Neill, Seren Pendleton-Knoll, Christine Rosen, Robert Strand

May 1, 2020

Fields

General Mills: Driving Food Systems Change through Regenerative Agriculture

by William Rosenzweig, Toby Stuart, Elaine Hsu, Emily Pelissier, and Christina Skonberg

November 1, 2019

Underwater

Patagonia: Closing the Loop on Packaging Pollution

by Sara L. Beckman, Kate O’Neill, Seren Pendleton-Knoll, William Rosenzweig, Robert Strand

April 1, 2019

Mountains

Patagonia's Path to Carbon Neutrality by 2025

by Daniel M. Kammen, Paul Hendricks, Seren Pendleton-Knoll, Vincent Stanley, and Robert Strand

April 1, 2018

Glass of beer

Sustainability Through Open Innovation: Carlsberg and the Green Fiber Bottle

by Henry W. Chesbrough, Marcel Bogers, and Robert Strand

October 1, 2018

Sprouts in a cup

Reversing Climate Change Through Sustainable Food: Patagonia Provisions Attempts to Scale a 'Big Wall'

by William Rosenzweig, Alastair Iles, Seren Pendleton-Knoll, and Robert Strand

April 1, 2017

Denim jeans

Levi Strauss & Co.: Driving Adoption of Green Chemistry

by Robert Strand and Martin Mulvihill

July 15, 2016