small businesses - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Dec 2012
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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

01 Sep 2013
News

Who Are We?

business I've ever operated," says Whiteside, surveying a herd of Aberdeen Angus and Red Devon cattle from the cab of a 1992 Ford pickup with an odometer topping 143,000 miles. "For one thing, it involves nature, which you can't control.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

12 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch

video we really want to see. But assuming a captive audience on these video sites may not make online marketers more effective at reaching consumers. Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Thales S. Teixeira notes that it's just as... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

attempt at starting his own company. Because venture capitalists were unwilling to fund travel businesses in the wake of the 1973 fuel crisis, Belkin financed his startup with an American Express card and View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Sep 2024
News

Alumni Books

(MBA 1997) River Grove Books Family offices are business entities built to primarily support a family’s wealth. Several trillions of dollars of wealth are concentrated in a small number of these offices... View Details

28 May 2019
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

financial guts of the business world when I was a teenager.” Big fail: Missing the cut for the high school volleyball team. “I asked the coach what I needed to do to make the team the next year. She told me, and I ended up being captain... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

A Life by Design

design — a career as varied as the teams she assembled. Fresh out of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, Ross started her own highly successful jewelry business on the strength of a $60,000 purchase order written on the spot by a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2004
News

One-on-One with Robert McNamara

is energetic and vigorous. His gaze is intense, and the legendary steel-trap mind is still in evidence. “My HBS experience was a major event in my life,” he eagerly volunteers, gripping his visitor’s hand. “It opened my eyes to the role of View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

03 Jul 2024
News

Surviving the Iditarod

Athabaskan communities and small native villages, and then you get to the coast. And the coast is a really big deal because the final roughly 200 miles or so, 250 miles, of the Iditarod trail, run along the shore off the Bering Strait,... View Details

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

Competition keeps you hungry. It forces you to continually find new and more cost-effective solutions to business problems. Although there's nothing new in this insight, recent research suggests some often-overlooked ways in which... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

01 Jun 2022
News

What We’re Reading

important not to forget the humans “on the other side” at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions. —Felix Oberholzer-Gee is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit and author of the upcoming... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

eventful. The lessons of their experience speak volumes for all of American industry, as firms large and small grapple with a host of new challenges that those beginning their careers in 1971 never anticipated. Another MBA '71 graduate,... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

They also detail how the city's business leaders stepped in to begin the slow, arduous process of creating new organizations, strategies, and alliances that eventually turned Cleveland into a vibrant commercial center. As part of... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Josh Baron Leading a Family Business (LFB) Strategy Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Ownership (OWN): Define Success, Create Advantage, Build to Last, Engage Effectively Strategy Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 John Batter Law, Management and... View Details

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

Nation in health care, with a focus on preventing diabetes in indigenous populations. "I quickly realized that business alone was not enough to reverse the dysfunction of some tribal economies," says Keen. Earlier, he'd experienced the... View Details

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

fierce business competition, your bargaining endowment can spell the difference between closing the deal and being shut out. A healthy bargaining endowment explains how Darren Rovell won a job on national television while other journalism... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

Cuts Harvard Business School Case 709-037 As his inauguration approached, President-elect Obama faced a financial sector meltdown, a costly bailout, and massive government deficits. With the economy in recession, interest rates near zero,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

http://hbr.org/product/3d-systems/an/614035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-010 Cyprus (A) Cyprus is a small Mediterranean island located at the crossroads of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

differentiation: de-emphasizing the strategic orientation their main rival is emphasizing. Finally, we show that the greater the competitive intensity, the greater the contribution strategic orientation differentiation has on business... View Details