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- 2023
- Working Paper
Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy
By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Mitchell Hoffman and Benjamin Iverson
In a randomized control trial (RCT) with U.S. small businesses, we document that a large share of firms are not well-informed about bankruptcy. Many assume that bankruptcy necessarily entails the death of a business and do not know about Chapter 11 bankruptcy, where... View Details
Bernstein, Shai Benjamin, Emanuele Colonnelli, Mitchell Hoffman, and Benjamin Iverson. "Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30933, February 2023.
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Companies: small or private
Where can I find information on small and/or private companies? Information on private companies in the U.S. is hard to come by, particularly financial information, and many sources that provide revenue data are unreliable for particular... View Details
- 06 Feb 2015
- News
Online Lending: A Boon for Young and Small Companies?
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
to recent research, the single most important factor is simply a sense of making progress on meaningful work. But creating an environment that fosters progress takes some careful effort. In their new book, The Progress Principle: Using View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Aug 2022
- News
As Climate Risk Grows, So Will Costs for Small Businesses
- 2014
- Working Paper
The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game
By: Karen G. Mills and Brayden McCarthy
Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation's private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. Yet in recent... View Details
Mills, Karen G., and Brayden McCarthy. "The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-004, July 2014.
- January 2025
- Article
Overcoming Barriers to Employee Ownership: Insights from Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
By: John Guzek and Ashley Whillans
This research investigates the limited adoption of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) among small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. Through interviews with 30 SMB owners across various industries, we identify the key barriers to ESOP adoption as lack of... View Details
Keywords: Profit Sharing; Employee Ownership; Management Practices and Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Small Business; Adoption; Employees
Guzek, John, and Ashley Whillans. "Overcoming Barriers to Employee Ownership: Insights from Small and Medium-Sized Businesses." Compensation & Benefits Review 57, no. 1 (January 2025): 64–81.
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Working capital loans have a big impact on India’s small business owners
Maya Chorengel (MBA 1997), managing director of Elevar Equity, describes her investment firm’s work to provide working capital loans to small business owners in India. (Published October 2014) View Details
- 02 Apr 2020
- News
Rescue Plan for U.S. Small Business Kicks Off Beset by Concerns
- 21 Sep 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
The Targeting and Impact of Paycheck Protection Program Loans to Small Businesses
- 2010
- Conference Presentation
Induced Variation in Administrative Systems: Experimenting with Contexts for Innovation
By: Adrian Caldart, Roberto Vassolo and Luciana Silvestri
Keywords: Evolutionary Perspective On Strategic Management; International Business; Management; Organizational Design; Globalization
Caldart, Adrian, Roberto Vassolo, and Luciana Silvestri. "Induced Variation in Administrative Systems: Experimenting with Contexts for Innovation." Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montréal, Canada, 2010.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Giving business tools to small farmers so they can compete and succeed
Sylvia Wachsner (PMD 35, 1978), director of Sociedade Nacional de Agricultura, runs business training programs for small organic and sustainable farmers in Brazil. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
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