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Patagonia: Corporate social responsibility as a behavior-binding asset driving demand
“For nearly 40 years, Patagonia has prided itself on selling high-quality, high-performance outdoor apparel to dirt bags.”
Drizly: the disruptor of the 3-tier system?
Since the proliferation of on-demand transportation apps– Uber and Lyft, more and more startups have entered the on-demand service arena. For example, there is 鈥淯ber for food,鈥� e.g. DoorDash, Eat24, and GrubHub. 鈥淯ber for drycleaning鈥� e.g. Washio and NimNim, and […]
鈥淎mul 鈥� The Taste of India鈥�
How an uprising against corrupt middlemen launched one of India鈥檚 longest standing and arguably most successful cooperative movements
Goodwill: Doing Good While Doing Well
How Goodwill, one of the nation's largest charities, has designed its operations to support a healthy triple bottom line.
Prosper Marketplace 鈥� 21st Century E-Peer-to-Peer and Institutional E-Lending
Prosper Marketplace is a modern peer-to-peer and e-institutional lending marketplace, efficiently matching borrower and lender supply and demand.
Akindo Sushiro: Tasty Sushi for All at $1 per plate
鈥淭asty sushi for all. Tasty sushi for the heart鈥�
Sushiro changed sushi from high-end meal to more daily meal
COSTCO: Big Bad Amazon can鈥檛 blow this brick and mortar house down.
COST SAVING, Costco's business and operating models' singular focus.
Chipotle: It’s not the burrito – it’s the operating model
Chipotle, the popular Mexican restaurant chain, is a great example of effective alignment between business model and operating model. “It works because of our system,” says the founder Steve Ells [1], and I think he is absolutely right. We can […]