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

06 Jul 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

like transportation, and develop an industry around it, with meaningful careers and a meaningful solution.” So in our small sample we have an answer to one of our questions:... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Manufacturing

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

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

or, in other words, to exploit and explore. To achieve your goals, consider leveraging cross-functional teams, employing creative exercises, adjusting expectations and deliverables, supporting an agile View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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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

07 Jun 2021
Book

9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'

regard, helping to open and secure support. "It is hard work and absolutely vital if the organization is to succeed." McFarlan has spent the past 40 years serving on social View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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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

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

in which agents recruited by a public health organization to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a View Details

06 Jul 2023
News

Home Economics

In a remote village in the Mexican state of Chiapas, 13 women gather in an open-air community space. Each has arrived at their weekly meeting with a small deposit for El Banco—“the bank”—as the women have named the savings club they’ve... View Details

Keywords: April White

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

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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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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

company Excara and switched to selling enterprise software for managing product content. In 2002, he started two nonprofits in response to the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. He is currently... View Details

28 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

Biomedical Research: Building a Sustainable, Globally Integrated Research Enterprise Vicki Sato, Christoph Jaeker, and Pooja Mehta SolankiHarvard Business School Case 612-048 As the head of the Novartis... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Succession in Small and Growing Enterprises C. Roland Christensen 1976 Policy Formulation and Administration C. Roland Christensen 1961 Problems... View Details

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SVMP Gave Me the Courage to Fail - MBA

internal case teams. At the start of the program, we were assigned to small teams to prepare for the broader case discussions. The small teams provided safe spaces to test new ideas View Details

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

also find important insights into how to motivate people, allocate resources, and act with great integrity in moments of crisis. I firmly believe that the template for business education can be very broad. As soon as that ship was frozen,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

economies, many business enterprises defy traditional industry boundaries. In this study, we evaluate six "big data" approaches to peer firm identifications and show that some, but not all, "wisdom-of-crowd"... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

role in addressing social issues? When is an enterprise generating high social value or destroying it? In the process, the course delves into the intersection of business, government, and civil society. For... View Details

17 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

Employees are feeling alienated Abdelal and DeLong see all of these phenomena as stemming from a common cause: the rise of contractual relationships with employees in place of emotional investment. “We’ve moved more View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

that's what it takes to make something truly new. Miles had reached the pinnacle by playing and innovating in the bebop tradition. But in Kind of Blue he walked away from all that, in the direction of a very different sort of music called... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

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My MBAid Story: Christine Keung (MBA 2020) - MBA

restaurant after school. She reflects on what made HBS such an incredible experience, how she took full advantage of the opportunities available to her, and how her formal business education complemented the informal lessons she learned... View Details

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