Small Business Administration - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

stuck—because the solution can't be mandated solely by an organization," says McGinn, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration at HBS. "There is an interaction," she continues.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

40 or so years, SASB hopes to simplify and standardize how businesses report data from their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives. George Serafeim is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

14 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

If Mad Men advertising hotshot Don Draper was operating on Madison Avenue today, he would find competition coming from more than just other ad firms. A recent study by Harvard Business School professor emeritus Alvin J. Silk and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

directors accountable to company owners." Major business groups lost no time denouncing the reform measures as vehicles for ceding enormous power to a small number of special-interest investors, namely,... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

Harvard MBA students visit the Bo-Kaap area of Cape Town, May 1, 2017 (Photo credit: Caroline Elkins) Recently, a first-year MBA student at Harvard Business School was overheard gushing to a friend about a professor’s deep knowledge of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Apr 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management

disagrees. Key concepts include: Most B2B marketers cannot economically address thousands of small businesses using the traditional direct sales force. If left unattended, individual managers will each do... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Sports; Publishing; Auto

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

Beer, the School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become alienated from our work and find it... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

03 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 3

Lerner and Scott Stern, 483-502. University of Chicago Press, 2012 Abstract Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

Lean start-up strategies aren't just for start-ups anymore. That was the key message that Intuit cofounder Scott Cook (HBS MBA '76) shared in a small seminar with Harvard Business School faculty recently.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

When Harvard Business School dean Kim B. Clark returned from a road tour a couple of years ago, he had some important issues he wanted to discuss with Professor Myra M. Hart. Evidence—granted, most of it anecdotal—was mounting to show... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?

continuum according to the situation." Do you agree? Does unleashing the "wisdom of crowds" work well in situations where rapid-fire decision-making is called for? Or is it a luxury available only when the pace of the organization's View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

Customers value some of the most powerful brands in the world primarily for their "cultural value": They provide imaginative resources that people use to build their identities. These are what Harvard Business School professor... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

Nalls Harvard Business School Case 808-167 Barry Nalls describes lessons learned during his 25-year career-his rise at GTE and shorter-lived ventures—and how these prepared him to found MASERGY, a telecommunications start-up. Even as a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

dalliances of leaders, a kiss is never just a kiss. “A board’s oversight over culture and respect in the workplace has become much more important than it was prior to #MeToo.” A series of Harvard Business School case studies unfurls the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

29 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?

and took a plunge into the unknown. A relatively small number of largely older, uneducated voters decided that the younger generations of Britons who voted to remain should instead face the growing global competition on their own rather... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

PublicationsHarder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Authors:Austin, Robert D., Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract Being a great leader today is... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

03 Oct 2005
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

objectives on which these kinds of actions should be based? Can organized labor form the necessary kinds of alliances with business and government that might be necessary to, in Pinel's words, "address the contemporary issues of... View Details