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- 2025
- Working Paper
Small Business Innovation Applied to National Needs
By: Kyle Myers, Lauren Lanahan and Evan E. Johnson
Small businesses have long supplied a disproportionate share of major innovations in the United States. We review a centerpiece policy on this topic: the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. We trace its legislative history and summarize program... View Details
Keywords: Small Business; Innovation and Invention; Government Legislation; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business and Government Relations
Myers, Kyle, Lauren Lanahan, and Evan E. Johnson. "Small Business Innovation Applied to National Needs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-062, June 2025.
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
School of Business, to craft the survey and analyze responses. “Firms today are very lean and cash-strapped.” The survey captured a snapshot of the pandemic’s impact on small businesses, including business owners’ perceptions about their... View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
Barry Johnson (MBA ’89) has over 20 years of business experience as an entrepreneur and corporate executive with media giants such as the Walt Disney Company, Bertelsmann, and Sony Music Corporation. With expertise in public-private... View Details
- November 2019 (Revised January 2025)
- Case
Russia: A Drama In Three Acts
By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella, Galit Goldstein, Sogomon Tarontsi and Lavinia Teodorescu
The collapse of central authority in the Soviet Union in 1991 ushered in a period of revolutionary transformations for the states that emerged in its wake. The leaders of Russia, the USSR's successor, struggled to reestablish central authority while also seeking to... View Details
Keywords: Government Policy; Policy Change; Policy Making; Economic Systems; Economics; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Privatization; Non-Renewable Energy; Governance; Global Strategy; Corporate Governance; Policy; Business History; Lawfulness; Problems and Challenges; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Change Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Russia; Moscow
Abdelal, Rawi, Rafael Di Tella, Galit Goldstein, Sogomon Tarontsi, and Lavinia Teodorescu. "Russia: A Drama In Three Acts." Harvard Business School Case 720-020, November 2019. (Revised January 2025.)
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
railroad, the telegraph, and a host of other innovations related to them—along with the rise of powerful business figures, such as John D. Rockefeller—gave many observers pause. The reaction was increased... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 May 2025
- HBS Seminar
Dan Iancu, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Web
Faculty & Research - Business History
Geoffrey G. Jones General Management 55 results Related Faculty Rawi E. Abdelal Business, Government and the International Economy 2 results Caroline M. Elkins Business, View Details
- September 1999
- Article
Cooperative or Controlling? The Effects of CEO-board Relations and the Contents of Interlocks on the Formation of Joint Ventures
By: Ranjay Gulati and James Westphal
Gulati, Ranjay, and James Westphal. "Cooperative or Controlling? The Effects of CEO-board Relations and the Contents of Interlocks on the Formation of Joint Ventures." Administrative Science Quarterly 44, no. 3 (September 1999): 473–506.
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
relate to your areas of interest and expertise. Then we'll discuss some of the challenges they pose. Brian, what about the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
"Delivering phone books is the worst way to spend a Sunday when you're a kid," says Olds, now an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurship Management unit at Harvard Business School. The family lived paycheck to paycheck. And... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
Governance ; Investment Citation Register to Read Related Wu, Shaolong. "Are ESG Improvements Recognized? Perspectives from the Public Sentiments." Journal of Impact and ESG Investing 5, no. 4 (Summer 2025):... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
Much like how disruptive technologies can threaten established businesses, the growing epidemic of AIDS has the power to blindside and possibly topple companies who choose to ignore the threat, participants concluded at a Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Business Groups, Entrepreneurship and the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey
By: Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan
This article examines the emergence and development of what became the largest business group in Turkey, the Koç Group. This venture was an important factor in the emergence of modern business enterprise in the new state of the Republic of Turkey from the 1920s. After... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governance; History; Strategy; Auto Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; Turkey
Jones, Geoffrey, and Asli M. Colpan. "Business Groups, Entrepreneurship and the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey." Special Issue on Business Groups around the World. Business History 58, no. 1 (2016): 69–88.
- 1989
- Book
British Business in Asia since 1860
By: G. Jones and R.P.T. Davenport-Hines
This book examines the historical experience of British business in Asia since 1860. Chapters on Iran, India, Thailand, Malayasia, China, Russian Asia and Japan explore the British impact on the region, and the relationship between British business and British and... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Business and Government Relations; India; Iran; Japan; Malaysia; Thailand; Great Britain
Jones, G., and R.P.T. Davenport-Hines, eds. British Business in Asia since 1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
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Assessing the Impact of CEO Activism
By: Aaron K Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
CEO activism refers to corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their company’s core business. Distinct from nonmarket strategy and traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of CEO activism... View Details
Keywords: Business And Society; Leadership; Policy; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Governance; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Public Opinion
Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel. "Assessing the Impact of CEO Activism." Organization & Environment 32, no. 2 (June 2019): 159–185. (Profiled in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Chief Executive magazine, CEO magazine, and by Edelman and Weber Shandwick.)
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
recognizing the importance of business in shaping broad outcomes-including those related to the future of globalization. Globalization has gone into reverse before—between the two world wars—and could do so... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2024
- Working Paper
Private Regulation, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change: A Business History Perspective
By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Geoffrey Jones
Private regulatory systems, including voluntary efforts by firms to restrain their own behavior are the primary form of global climate change governance. However, when environmental challenges first rose up on the scientific and political agendas during the 1970s, the... View Details
Keywords: Certification; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Business History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy
Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, and Geoffrey Jones. "Private Regulation, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change: A Business History Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-041, January 2024.
- 2023
- Book
The State and Capitalism in China
By: Meg Rithmire, Margaret M. Pearson and Kellee S. Tsai
This element explains China's political economic evolution from state socialist economy to a reform era state capitalism model to a more politicized, risk management approach we call "party-state capitalism." We emphasize the internal and external sources of perceived... View Details
Keywords: China's Political Economy; State Capitalism; State-business Relations; State Ownership; Economic Systems; Government and Politics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; China
Rithmire, Meg, Margaret M. Pearson, and Kellee S. Tsai. The State and Capitalism in China. Cambridge Elements, Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023.