Small ＆ Medium-sized Enterprises - Publications - Faculty & Research

April 2020
Case

The Board's Role in Refocusing Bahrain Development Bank

By: Paul M. Healy and Alpana Thapar

In March 2016, Bahrain Development Bank’s (BDB) existing board term came to an end and Khalid Al Rumaihi was appointed the new chairman. Determining a need for change, he immediately overhauled the board and replaced BDB’s long-standing CEO. The new board quickly... View Details

Keywords: Board Of Directors; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Banking Industry; Bahrain

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David Ager is a Senior Lecturer in Executive Education. He engages CEOs, CHROs, and their teams to design and deliver customized executive development experiences for executive, senior and high potential leaders. The companies hail from diverse sectors including... View Details

Rosabeth M. Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

mounting internal tensions over the company’s strategic direction. Untapped had developed a data-driven revenue-based financing (RBF) model to address the “missing middle” problem—the $5.2 trillion funding gap for small and View Details

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

timing, last Fall Congress passed the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019, which is designed to reduce the financial and administrative burden of Chapter 11 on small- to medium-sized businesses (those... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

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SME research

What are the top databases to research small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)? ABI/Proquest Suggested search (copy and paste into database): (small & medium sized enterprises-SME) and (your... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity

financial services firm helps small and medium-sized enterprises raise capital and scale their businesses. In the past year NISK itself has grown, and now its team of eight... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

Profile

Michael O. Braimah

marketability." After Amal Sale, Michael reached out to an HBS contact he met a few years earlier at the Africa Business Conference, joining him at his private-equity firm, Kaizen Venture Partners. There, Michael was part of a small... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Capitalizing the Corner Shop

Republic, eager to find more space in what the World Bank estimates to be a $1.2 trillion global credit gap for small to medium-sized enterprises in emerging markets. Success... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jun 2022
News

Vision: Into the Breach

local schools and colleges in the education sector and the small- to medium-size businesses it serves in the United States. (The firm also raised $205 million in Series D funding, saw an eightfold increase in year-over-year premium... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Mar 2023
News

Is AI OK?

approach to evaluating job candidates is virtually bias-free when compared with traditional methods: Men and women perform almost identically on the game-based assessments, with only minute variations occurring across racial and ethnic groups. As a result, View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

09 Apr 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel

feedstock, as well as carbon capture technology. They are part of various industry groups, sharing technology learnings with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Launch Codes

away from you quickly. In the early days of WAVE, with a fairly small team, it was easy for me to model the expected behavior. But as we started to scale up, and our original culture ambassadors became the minority to the new hires, we... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Alvaro Dominguez

01 Jun 2024
News

Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade

Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

16 Nov 2021
Blog Post

How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation

distribute our payments and financial services products through these platforms to their SMB (small and medium-sized business) customers. It is a super interesting and challenging position, as it combines sales, partnerships, and the need... View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

entrepreneurs have excelled both as progenitors of startup enterprises and as prime movers in the transformation of small or medium-sized companies into corporate giants. In... View Details

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

10 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

with small companies looking for help, struggles to define a growth plan for the future. The company, started as a class project in HBS' FIELD 3 course, is assessing three growth paths: shifting its target from small- and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

efficacy. Most important of all, they showed farmers that Notore and its products could be trusted. Earning confidence among trading partners is a slow but essential enterprise in professionalizing agriculture, especially in a country... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2000
News

Latin America's Decade

funding, but most of that will come from outside the country. Essentially, there is no capital available to small or medium-sized companies here." Beyond financing, additional regional problems cited by... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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