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• Supplement | HBS Case Collection | November 2019

  California Closets - Bill Barton

  Boris Groysberg

  Video supplement for the HBS Case Study "California Closets: Organizing the Customer Experience," product number 419-004.

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  Groysberg, Boris. "California Closets - Bill Barton." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 420-702, November 2019.  View Details

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• Supplement | HBS Case Collection | November 2019

  Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.

  Boris Groysberg, Sarah Mehta and Matthew Preble

  This video supplement pairs with “Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.” (case no. 418011). It contains eight individual clips that range in length from 5 to 12 minutes. Instructors can use the videos, either in whole or in part, as an additional teaching element. The case is set in April 2017. It finds Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi, CEO and CFO (respectively) of Kids & Company—a Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise—discussing how the company should proceed with its planned U.S. expansion. Kids & Company already has five U.S. childcare centers in and around Chicago, Illinois, and one under construction in Boston, Massachusetts, but before going any further, the two leaders plan to discuss what they have learned so far from their U.S. experience and how that should inform their strategic growth decisions moving forward.

  Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Leadership; Marketing; Product Marketing; Brands and Branding; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Product Design; Product Development; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Selection and Staffing; Customer Focus and Relationships; Entrepreneurship; Service Industry; Canada; United States;

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  Groysberg, Boris, Sarah Mehta, and Matthew Preble. "Kids & Company: Entering the U.S." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 420-704, November 2019.  View Details

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• Working Paper | HBS Working Paper Series | 2019

  Pathways to Materiality: How Sustainability Issues Become Financially Material to Corporations and Their Investors

  Jean Rogers and George Serafeim

  As sustainability issues, also labelled environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, become financially material, companies, investors and regulators are designing strategies and policies to improve sustainability disclosure and performance. In this paper, we outline a framework of how sustainability issues become financially material arguing that materiality is not a “state of being” but a “process of becoming.” Our framework could assist companies and investors to make resource allocation decisions based on expectations about future materiality, social entrepreneurs and NGOs to develop their theories of social change, and policy makers to design disclosure regulations. Moreover, our framework generates predictions about the conditions under which sustainability issues become financially material that could be empirically tested in the future.

  Keywords: materiality; ESG; Pharmaceutical Companies; ethics; Business ethics; sustainability; environment; finance; accounting; disclosure; disclosure and access; regulation; social impact; valuation; corporate governance; corporate accountability;

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  Rogers, Jean, and George Serafeim. "Pathways to Materiality: How Sustainability Issues Become Financially Material to Corporations and Their Investors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-056, November 2019.  View Details

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