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Buying a Small Business Pt1: General (For HBS Alumni)
by Jim S. Sharpe, Entrepreneur in Residence at the Arthur Rock Center, Harvard Business School. His blog on search and running SME’s covers rich materials. Buying Existing Business – a website by... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation
By: Karen Gordon Mills and Brayden McCarthy
Small businesses were among the hardest hit in the Great Recession, accounting for more than 60% of the total jobs lost. The economic crisis was one focused on the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America’s small businesses,... View Details
Mills, Karen Gordon, and Brayden McCarthy. "The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-042, November 2016.
- May 2020
- Teaching Note
Talismark
By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 211-097. Talismark negotiated waste hauling contracts for small and medium size companies. Its owners, Charles Muszynski and Marshall Staiman, were able to grow the business by more than 30% per year since it was founded, but believed... View Details
- January 2021
- Case
PhaseNext: A Minority-Owned Small Business Restaurant Franchisee Confronts COVID-19
Kaufman, Michael S. "PhaseNext: A Minority-Owned Small Business Restaurant Franchisee Confronts COVID-19." Harvard Business School Case 321-100, January 2021.
- 28 Aug 2014
- News
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
- 31 Aug 2024
- News
Expert Steps to Evaluate and Purchase a Small Business
- 25 Jun 2017
- News
Gutting this Dodd-Frank rule will hurt America's small businesses
- June 1985 (Revised May 1986)
- Case
First Federal Corp.: Small Business Market (B), Software Case
Vitale, Michael R. "First Federal Corp.: Small Business Market (B), Software Case." Harvard Business School Case 185-106, June 1985. (Revised May 1986.)
- 14 Aug 2014
- News
How U.S. states can get small businesses growing (again)
- 06 Dec 2022
- News
Small Businesses Play a Big Role in Supply-Chain Resilience
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
The art of business today seems to be the ability to influence resources your company doesn't own—resources such as the production scheduling of manufacturing partners, the packaging requirements of distribution partners, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets
inclined to make the type of small business loans—just $5,000 for working capital or $20,000 for machinery—that can help grow developing economies. In its first six years, Entrepreneurial Finance Lab... View Details
- 14 Dec 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation
- 29 Mar 2019
- News
Hard for voice of small businesses to be heard, says former SBA head
- 01 Jun 1997
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Carla Small
counselor at a children's center confirmed her interest in family care but also made her realize that she preferred to approach the field "from a business angle." In 1988, she left Leo Burnett to follow her heart. View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 23 Apr 2020
- News