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Paul Baier | Baker Library

and his partner bootstrapped for ten months but were unable to get funding. So they closed their doors and Paul joined AOL and then Open Market, where he saw an opportunity to... 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

Career Coach

been a small business owner. Work Experience: General Electric, Right Management Consultants, Interim Executive assignments in Human Resources/Talent Management; Director of a nonprofit urban grant making agency; View Details

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01 Jun 2024
News

Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade

access. —Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998), is the coauthor of Level Up and the CEO of Now, where she helps small businesses grow with the payment system, NowAccount. Stell faces a classic challenge for View Details

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

27 Jul 2017
News

Seeing a Way Forward

opportunities,” Leger says. “I believe the idea that there is an inevitable tradeoff between profit and impact is fundamentally flawed and can be challenged through innovative social View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

of opportunity, America could instead be closing it down—unless we create a positive agenda to renew the American spirit," she writes in the book's introduction. Kanter believes America at the start of the 21st century has lost its way both as a beacon to the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 4

India on firm size dynamics and reallocation of resources within industries. Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, and the left-hand tail of the firm size distribution thickens... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

organizations that we have created in the last century, and that we continue to create today, could not function. Without management, chaos would reign. Enterprises would fall apart View Details

Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter

11 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

higher levels of profitability." After analyzing financial and employment data from hundreds of medium-sized and large companies, they proved that the hypothesis was true.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Keeping Your Balance With Customers

From product push to customer pull, technology has vastly reshaped the business transaction—and in turn, the customer's place in the value chain. Today, managing the customer relationship has become the single most important dimension of View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

11 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

Liverpool's Inconvenient Imperial Past, 300-332. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming Abstract John Holt & Co is one of a group of unlikely survivors from the imperial era: medium-sized firms... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

small firms, not-for-profits, and social enterprises have successfully leveraged deep metaphors to solve a wide variety of marketing problems. Marketing Metaphoria should... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

for a second-mover to challenge a first-mover. A: Firefox and Camino claim only a small market share, and those users are on the tech-savvy end of the user spectrum. In... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

venture between Intel and SAP that was launched in 1997 to create a new-market disruption selling enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to small businesses. Intel View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

18 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East

largest consumer research panel in the Middle East, and helped Yahoo!'s portal reach nearly 17 million unique users. In 2014, Yahoo! shuttered its Middle East portal, and Amira joined Facebook where she... View Details

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... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Dec 2009
News

Robert Goodwin

marketing, five days from your head IT person, and so on. Why is this approach an advantage? Three reasons: First, the organizations we partner with get more diverse expertise targeted at their specific needs. Second, for individual... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

The Faces Of Collaboration These alliances do not require grandiose strategic plans; patience and perseverance are often sufficient to turn small beginnings into significant strategic alliances. Consider,... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

28 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 28

Shippo, prepares her pitch for a Series A funding round following a successful seed round. Customer adoption of Shippo’s e-commerce dashboard application, which allows small and medium retailers to compare... View Details