Small Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

everything that the business needs, from raising financing, to customer interactions, to sales and marketing, to product development. It’s a challenge to be able to cover, as an individual and even as a View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management

have big consequences for how people spend the money and its impact on their businesses and their livelihoods.” “That paper was very influential and one of the first indications to academics that small... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

25 Aug 2022
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Ink: The Three-Step Startup

three-step process, and you can’t skip the second step. Solve is an iterative process. You will not get it right the first time. So iterate, test hypotheses, invest small amounts of resources at first, and make incremental progress to the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Jun 2013
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Notes from W50

negotiation tactics and responsible investing. Keynote speakers included Karen Gordon Mills (MBA 1977), administrator of the US Small Business Administration; Ann Moore (MBA 1978), retired chairman and CEO... View Details

13 Nov 2020
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Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

digital technology to augment and expand their offerings. Guiding Small Business Owners Zoe Cullen, Mike Luca, and Chris Stanton, working with several MBA students and Harvard economist Ed Glaeser, created a... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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Charting the Year Ahead

will enhance club vibrancy. This year’s committee is headed by Paul Hayre (MBA 1999). Alumni Marketing. During the past two years, the board has focused on the wide array of programs and resources available to alumni, seeking answers to why they are relatively unaware... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

09 Oct 2024
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Worker welfare: From theory to tangible good

Good Business Lab cofounder Anant Nyshadham on demonstrating the ROI of better worker conditions and getting from academic exercise to large-scale implementation. View Details

18 Mar 2008
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Election ’08, HBS Style

bring down those costs. When the floor opened for questions, the audience played hardball. Invoking “apathy and disillusionment” and noting the small audience of no more than fifty people, one student asked, “How low a voter turnout would... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

14 Jan 2014
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Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship

SCHULTZ Jack Schultz (MBA 1976), the oldest of eight children, grew up in the farming hamlet of Teutopolis, Illinois, population 1,100. It's fitting that his father was in the seed business (raising soybean and grass seed) because... View Details

Keywords: CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities); Educational Services; Agriculture; Manufacturing

November 2007 (Revised August 2014)
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D2Hawkeye: Growing the Medical IT Enterprise

By: Robert F. Higgins, Rosie O'Donnell, Sophie LaMontagne and Brent Kazan

In mid-March 2007, Chris Kryder sat in his office and thought about how to best finance his company's growth. Over the previous five years as founder and CEO of D2Hawkeye, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based healthcare analytics company, Kryder had grown the firm from a... View Details

Keywords: Strategy Development; Strategic Positioning; Strategic Vision; Venture Capital; Small Business; Investment; Growth Management; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Financial Strategy; Business Strategy; Service Industry; Health Industry; Waltham

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Filippo Mezzanotti

I was born in Italy and grew up in a small town called Cesena. I moved to Milan after high school to attend Bocconi University, where I earned my Bachelor and Master of Science in Economics and Social Sciences. During my undergraduate... View Details

01 Sep 2013
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Faculty Books

a small one. See hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7271.html. The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World by Joseph L. Badaracco (Harvard Business Review Press) Leading responsibly is crucial in... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

October 2023
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Shredder Setups or Straightlining into Risk?: Investing in What You Love

By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger

Bob Hall, President of Green Gables Partners, evaluated whether to angel invest into an up-and-coming ski brand. As the son-in-law of the founder of Vera Bradley and having retired from a lengthy career on Wall Street, Hall was well-versed in both direct investing and... View Details

Keywords: Family Office; Angel Investors; Direct Investment; Family Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Small Business; Financial Strategy; Personal Finance; Investment Portfolio; Private Equity; Decision Choices and Conditions; Risk and Uncertainty; Consumer Products Industry; Montana; United States

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22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

Knowledge. [Image: alvarez] Related Reading Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought Research Paper: Financial Distancing: How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation Your... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2010
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A Smooth Stretch

explained, “Yoga became a great way to work my body and quiet my mind at a time when my life as a full-time mother of two small children was feeling quite chaotic.” And yoga also offered a great business... View Details

Keywords: Yoga; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

11 Oct 2017
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The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

of America’s shareholders from voicing their concerns. When a shareholder has a beef with a company’s business practices, they can submit a formal proposal to suggest a policy change. The company can respond to the proposal in one of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 May 2023
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Students Strive to Solve Climate Change

As part of the Business & Environment Initiative’s “Accelerating Climate Solutions” conference on May 10, 2023, four HBS MBA Class of 2023 students discuss their efforts toward solving climate challenges: Chidalu Onyenso founded EarthBond to link Nigerians with... View Details

Keywords: Carbon capture

01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits

blockbuster projects we just can't seem to get enough of. Your book's thesis suggests that, in the business of entertainment, big moves are the best moves. That's right. Many people think that making many View Details

Keywords: Patrick Kirchner; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2020
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We Rise

change can level the playing field. Social distancing has disrupted the traditional connection-based networks of venture capital. No one is going out for drinks anymore and there’s less small talk over Zoom. In the online environment,... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

19 Apr 2017
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Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action

Silicon Valley’s name is dominant in the history of entrepreneurship. So where does that leave other cities that want to get in on the action? On April 13 in Spangler Auditorium, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a panel of area business... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Emmanuel

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