TOMS and the "One-for-One"
Business Model
The power of shoes. It's something most women and many men understand completely. And it is what transformed the young entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie into a visionary business leader in less than three years. The 32-year-old founded Toms Shoes based on the simple idea that for every pair of his canvas shoes you buy, a pair is given to a child in need.
To date, he's given away 140,000 pairs of shoes in the U.S., Argentina, Ethiopia and South Africa...