Small And Medium-sized Enterprises - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Feb 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Do Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance?

Keywords: by Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine & Michael W. Toffel

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

to maritime trade so phenomenal that he has been compared to the father of the steam engine, Robert Fulton. As a youth growing up on a farm in a small town of Maxton, North Carolina, McLean learned early on about the value of hard work... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

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HBS - The year in Review

unique challenges of companies commercializing breakthrough technology. This year, 295 teams entered the virtual competition—117 in the Student Business Track, 48 in the Student Social Enterprise Track, and... View Details

August 2021
Case

Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (A)

By: Anita Elberse, Briana Richardson and Cydni Williams

In May 2020, Chris Lyons, a partner at leading venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz receives the news that his company has reached a verbal agreement with one of Silicon Valley’s hottest social-media startups to lead its ‘Series A’ funding round, in a deal that... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment; Talent Management; General Management; Inclusion; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Networks; Nonprofit Organizations

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26 Aug 2024
Blog Post

HBS Lingo 101

Program. Graduates earn two degrees in two years and are prepared to grow transformative organizations that will advance new drug discoveries or therapeutics. HIVES: Classrooms in Batten Hall designed with FIELD courses in mind to... View Details

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

forces operating today, business and consumer spending, in service toward eradicating deadly disease in Africa. Kiva connects small lenders-many of whom lend $50 or less-with promising entrepreneurs, mostly... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

09 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

time to enter or exit that location. Reducing your costs might not provide you with a competitive advantage at all." Walmart has been a smart expander since it opened its first store in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. Sam Walton slowly branched his growing View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

by launching the Akamai Technical Academy, which asked the question: “Why don’t we go out and find smart people to train, and create our own talent pool?” Slides Impact Investing at a Crossroads Amelia... View Details

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How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Cecil Alfaro-Mora - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st... View Details

25 Jan 2021
Book

In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

24 Oct 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

fit. “At our first startup after a series of roles at large enterprise software companies, we tried to force a big company perspective on how we did employee feedback and reviews. We were too structured with... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

21 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

"Michael Porter didn't get to be a giant in the field of competition and strategy by hunting small game." Joan Magretta begins her new book on Harvard Business School's Michael Porter's work by... View Details

Keywords: by Joan Magretta

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Search Fund Fellowship - MBA

enable graduating students from all socio-economic backgrounds to pursue a self-funded search and to encourage students to seek career opportunities at small operating companies in underserved communities,... View Details

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Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth - MBA

coming to Harvard, she’s designed a fleet of spacecraft to clear small debris from low-Earth orbit, a robotic plant to mimic users’ posture and help prevent back pain, and a... View Details

16 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

women traverse their stores. In addition, Best Buy acquired Geek Squad to broaden its footprint into installation of equipment. The company applied the same concerted effort toward serving other valuable customer segments it had discovered, including View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

timing, last Fall Congress passed the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019, which is designed to reduce the financial and administrative burden of Chapter 11 on small- to View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

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The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back - MBA

help, and most importantly, enjoy it. What is your favorite memory of your time at HBS? My fondest memories are the small dinners with my section. Our first year, COVID regulations made it hard for my entire... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Play Video duration: 2:05 2024 New Venture Competition Winner, Social Enterprise Track: Solara Solara provides an on-demand solar irrigation service to Indian farmers, increasing their access to affordable, reliable, View Details

31 Jul 2023
News

Striving for Imperfection

of other things. But they also tried this with quite small sums rather than a hundred million dollar sums for big companies, and they found that at risk-aversion tax still existed. Let me wrap it all... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

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Faculty & Advisors - MBA

Therapeutics, Cambridge Crops, Syzygy Plasmonics, and E25Bio. She has also served as a board director of WEST, a learning community for women in the enterprise of science and... View Details

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