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The Business Administrator and Government Policy - A Course Description for Teachers
By: J. Ronald Fox
Keywords: Business and Government Relations
- 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
- 23 Apr 2020
- News
‘Staying Nimble’: How Small Businesses Can, and Do, Shift Gears
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The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation
By: Karen Mills
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
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Fundbox Wants to Be Paypal for Small Businesses.
- 06 Mar 2014
- News
MBA Students Expand Their 'Across America' Outreach
- 2012
- Chapter
The Small Worlds of Business Groups: Liberalization and Network Dynamics
By: Jon Brookfield, Sea-Jin Chang, Israel Drori, Shmuel Ellis, Sergio G. Lazzarini, Jordan I. Siegel and Juan Pablo von Bernath Bardina
Using comparative data from six major emerging economies — Brazil, Chile, Israel,
Mexico, South Korea, and Taiwan — we examine how ownership networks in those
societies responded to a roughly similar “ structural break ” of economic liberalization during the 1990s... View Details
Brookfield, Jon, Sea-Jin Chang, Israel Drori, Shmuel Ellis, Sergio G. Lazzarini, Jordan I. Siegel, and Juan Pablo von Bernath Bardina. "The Small Worlds of Business Groups: Liberalization and Network Dynamics." Chap. 3 in The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance, edited by Bruce Kogut, 77–115. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.
- 07 Dec 2020
- News
Big Wisdom on Small Business from Amazing Aussie, Bill Lang
- March 2022 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
Climate Change & the Biden Administration
By: Gunnar Trumbull and James Barnett
Trumbull, Gunnar, and James Barnett. "Climate Change & the Biden Administration." Harvard Business School Case 722-030, March 2022. (Revised February 2024.)
- December 1998
- Background Note
Cash Management Practices in Small Companies
By: H. Kent Bowen, Andrew R. Jassy, Laurence E. Katz, Kevin E. Kelly and Baltej Kochar
Most small business managers claim that cash management is their leading concern. Often walking a tightrope between growth and illiquidity, small business managers face different cash management challenges than their counterparts in larger companies. Compared to larger... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Working Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Cash; Forecasting and Prediction; Policy; Business Strategy
Bowen, H. Kent, Andrew R. Jassy, Laurence E. Katz, Kevin E. Kelly, and Baltej Kochar. "Cash Management Practices in Small Companies." Harvard Business School Background Note 699-047, December 1998.
- 06 Feb 2015
- News
Online Lending: A Boon for Young and Small Companies?
- May 2011
- Article
The Power of Small Wins
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step forward every day. In an analysis of knowledge workers' diaries, the authors found that nothing contributed more to a positive inner work life (the mix of emotions, motivations, and... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Working Conditions; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Performance Productivity; Attitudes; Behavior; Happiness; Perception; Trust; Time Management; Resource Allocation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Managerial Roles
Amabile, Teresa M., and Steven J. Kramer. "The Power of Small Wins." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011).
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Buying a Small Business Pt2: Search funds (For HBS Alumni)
Filled with input from experienced searchers, operators, and investors, this document aims to be a potential blueprint for searchers during the search phase. (Suggested prior reading: “Search Fund Primer” available on the Stanford Graduate School of View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- News
As Climate Risk Grows, So Will Costs for Small Businesses
- 14 Apr 2020
- News
Paypal, Square Start Lending to Small Businesses Hurt by Virus
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
No Small Beer
The biggest thing in the beer business these days is the little guy. Research firm Technomics reported that the craft beer and premium import market rose almost 15 percent in 2012, with an "upward trajectory" that continued in 2013. And... View Details