small businesses - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

process that comprises many small projects, that evolves to meet the emerging demands of the ever-changing marketplace, that allows for frequent experimentation, and that delivers value on an ongoing basis. "Several decades ago, we... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

01 Jan 2004
News

Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

Former Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Hazleton Laboratories Corporation Former President, Seattle School Board Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION University of Washington, 1960 B.A., Business... View Details

Profile

Brian T. Bedol

For Brian Bedol, the founder and CEO of Bedrocket Media Ventures, entrepreneurship was deeply engrained from his childhood in Cleveland. Bedol’s father founded a successful small housewares manufacturing and metal stamping View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Feedback

from Nigeria's agriculture minister. No Small Beer Re: Alumni brewers You omitted Peter Doering (MBA 1987), a local HBS alumnus, who started a brewery about 15 months ago. We did an HBS alumni club event at his brewery recently, and it... View Details

17 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Tech for the People

Box to archive videos of city council meetings, and a registry designed with IBM to monitor rent-control compliance. “It’s incredible how much I learned about ways that tech companies can develop products and services that both benefit the public and align with their... View Details

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Lessons from History - Creating Emerging Markets

Conferences Lessons from History Lessons from History Video Clips & Discussion Questions Resources on Indian Business History The Harvard Business School Creating Emerging Markets project (CEM), in... View Details

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

donor and grateful recipient, toward deeper, strategic alliances. These changes are already under way, and the changing alliance landscape is rich in variety, with businesses and nonprofits from Boston to Seattle finding new ways to work... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

professor Sumner Slichter (the School’s first University Professor) wrote in 1945, “Something should happen to men who come to the Business School which could not happen to them anywhere else in the world, and which will leave its mark on... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2020
News

The Complete Package

Courtesy Susan Chong The typical wooden shipping pallet, constructed of mixed hardwood, ccan weigh 50 pounds, Susan Chong (OPM 48, 2016) explains. But a pallet made of pine weighs half that, and for businesses air shipping their products,... View Details

Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

her latest book. An authority on business history as well as branding, consumer behavior, and business strategy, Koehn cut her historical teeth on understanding and interpreting the economic and social... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Apr 2021
News

The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)

roles do each of you fill within the organization? MGA: “My official title is Secretary and Treasurer, but we are small enough to remain flexible and fill whatever role is needed at the time. Austin still jumps in to teach me how to be... View Details

18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

Working PapersDeterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

that the prices are right, because they usually are," says Harvard Business School finance professor Lauren H. Cohen, who serves as an editor of Management Science. "From there, you can look for the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

Profile

Paris Wallace

with the help of a mobile app, and that number is growing.” By amassing hundreds of millions of data points from more than a million women entering data into Ovuline’s pregnancy and fertility apps, Ovuline is seeking to not only build a profitable View Details

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Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need | Working Knowledge

nurture it. Featuring Amy C. Edmondson . By Kara Baskin on June 14, 2023 . Perks like remote work or unlimited vacation time might be nice, but when it comes to true fulfillment in a post-pandemic workscape, psychological safety is essential. Harvard View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Meditations on the Bottom Line

For many managers today, the greatest business challenges are no longer technical; rather, they involve figuring out how to put more "soul" into the workplace. For Belinda L. Bothwick (MBA '77), however, the new executive director of... View Details

11 May 2021
Blog Post

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

company to a larger one. In contrast, startups funded by a VC syndicate with less familiar co-investors are most likely to exit through a potentially splashy IPO that could let founders retain more control, says Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

24 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

and the sport of rodeo kayaking quickly emerged from the rapids. Harvard Business School professor Carliss Baldwin and her colleagues Christoph Hienerth and Eric von Hippel were drawn to the sport as well, but not to get their feet wet.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

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Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog

footprint. Finally, for those interested in evaluating economic and business environments generally, EOV provides a robust macro setting in which to understand how various levers aid or hinder economic development by examining one of the... View Details

26 May 2016
News

2016 Alumni Achievement Awards

Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises “My first job was starting a small manufacturing unit that made bicycle parts. Then I launched another business for yarn. Once I made a bit of money, it went into the... View Details

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