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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
- 22 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers
because they have a deep and long-lasting effect.” About the Author Dina Gerdeman is senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Angela Sun, a Boston-based graphic designer, created the charts above. [Image: Rawpixel] What... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 29 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)
Business school is a valuable investment in your future. HBS supports that investment through generous need-based scholarships. In addition to scholarships, many HBS students utilize student loans to help... View Details
- 06 Mar 2014
- News
MBA Students Expand Their 'Across America' Outreach
- March 2011
- Article
Institutional Demand Pressure and the Cost of Corporate Loans
By: Victoria Ivashina and Zheng Sun
Between 2001 and 2007, annual institutional funding in highly leveraged loans went up from $32 billion to $426 billion, accounting for nearly 70% of the jump in total syndicated loan issuance over the same period. Did the inflow of institutional funding in the... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Financial Crisis; Credit; Debt Securities; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Investment
Ivashina, Victoria, and Zheng Sun. "Institutional Demand Pressure and the Cost of Corporate Loans." Journal of Financial Economics 99, no. 3 (March 2011): 500–522.
- 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.
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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
- November–December 2019
- Article
Making Sense of Soft Information: Interpretation Bias and Loan Quality
By: Dennis Campbell, Maria Loumioti and Regina Wittenberg Moerman
We explore whether behavioral biases impede the effective processing and interpretation of soft information in private lending. Taking advantage of the internal reporting system of a large federal credit union, we delineate three important biases likely to affect the... View Details
Keywords: Soft Information; Lending; Banking; Information; Financing and Loans; Banks and Banking; Decision Making
Campbell, Dennis, Maria Loumioti, and Regina Wittenberg Moerman. "Making Sense of Soft Information: Interpretation Bias and Loan Quality." Art. 101240. Journal of Accounting & Economics 68, nos. 2-3 (November–December 2019).
- August 2025
- Article
Revenue Collapses and the Consumption of Small Business Owners in the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: Olivia S. Kim, Jonathan A. Parker and Antoinette Schoar
Using financial account data linking small businesses to their owner households, we examine how business owners’ consumption responded to changes in business revenues during the COVID-19 crisis. In the first two months following the National Emergency, business... View Details
Kim, Olivia S., Jonathan A. Parker, and Antoinette Schoar. "Revenue Collapses and the Consumption of Small Business Owners in the COVID-19 Pandemic." Art. 104079. Journal of Financial Economics 170 (August 2025).
- 14 Apr 2020
- News
Paypal, Square Start Lending to Small Businesses Hurt by Virus
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
A few years ago, H. Kent Bowen, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration, undertook a study of smaller companies (firms in the $5 million to $50 million range) in order to develop cases and teaching materials for the... View Details
- 17 Jun 2015
- News
Is Small Beautiful?
- 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.