Small Business Loans - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

"Dutch" Leonard Periodical:California Management Review 51, no. 1 (fall 2008): 77-102 Abstract What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important to that development are the particular companies we work for? For Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

22 Feb 2022
News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

don’t make it past five years. Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson want to help today’s entrepreneurs beat the odds by revealing the unseen tethers that keep small businesses from growing and thriving. Drawing on... View Details

19 Feb 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

provided support and inspiration for me along the way. So, it’s nice to think that I can be that for others in some small way.” Pathipati: “It offers a gratifying moment to pause, smell the roses, and reflect on what I’ve accomplished to... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

Editor's note: As traditional hierarchical organizations flatten, new ways of thinking about internal communications must be developed—news no longer flows just from top to bottom. In Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA

4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures Background Harvard Business School (HBS) has a long tradition of entrepreneurial activity. In recent years, the emphasis on entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School... View Details

03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

continue growing in the company's core business: equipment for the steel production. The second option offered growth in a related, but nearly new business for Tenova: the equipment for mining, mineral processing, and extractive... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

developed by the company’s marketers and strategists. “They want to react to changing demand and supply conditions,” says study author Alexander J. MacKay, an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

then at least in the fog” "We negotiate, if not in the dark, then at least in the fog," says Michael Wheeler, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and retired MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice, who taught... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

private firms differs.” So when Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Joan Farre-Mensa learned he'd been granted access to a database of accounting information on tens of thousands of private American firms, he knew it was an... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

After decades of destructive outsourcing, America's ability to innovate and create high-tech products essential for future prosperity is on the decline, argue professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih. They won the prestigious McKinsey Award for their July-August 2009... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

When Apple introduced the iPod, it had a simple but compelling tag line for music fans: "1,000 thousand songs in your pocket." The company sold 300 million of them. On the eve of debuting its digital payment system, Apple Pay, two Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

30 May 2025
News

Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte

HBS Club of Mexico Celebrates Connection with Gala Dinner The HBS Club of Mexico joined the Harvard Club of Mexico in celebrating the latter’s 75th anniversary with the Harvard Gala Mexico, held on May 12 at the Club de Industriales in Mexico City. Approximately 275... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

10 May 2022
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

in his big leather chair and knew I wanted to be in business someday. Those visits entered my DNA.” Culture shock: “My HBS study group had a good laugh when we went grocery shopping together. I was absolutely overwhelmed by choosing from... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

practices, which resulted in an offer to teach at Howard University. There, Fitzhugh created a marketing program and organized the school’s Small Business Center, in addition to introducing generations of... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

From the Editors

Bill Falcon for a few issues before Ted Anthony assumed the job in 1962. Anthony, who had publishing experience in the military and at the Small Business Administration in Washington, kept the Bulletin on a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2010
News

M.I.A. Boards

business judgment rule, directors must have “knowingly and completely failed to undertake their responsibilities” or had “an actual intent to do harm” — a standard that has let thousands of failed boards off the hook over the years. While... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

depth in a focus group.—Gerald Zaltman Underhill shuns academic market research as being too theoretical. Yet some of this research supports Underhill's commonsense findings. Such is the case with the work of Gerald Zaltman, a Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail

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OWN: The Power of Company Ownership - Course Catalog

companies are privately held, or they are publicly traded but controlled by founders (e.g., Google, Facebook), families (e.g., Ford), or charities (e.g., Novo Nordisk). In all these cases, a relatively small number of owners exercise... View Details

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

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