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

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

12 Jan 2015
News

Good Investments

greatest investment successes is Vistaar, a financing firm that offers funding to small- and medium-sized businesses in India that fall into the “missing middle”: too small for commercial bank loans, too big... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

firm, he put in place a system of franchised brokerage offices that greatly reduced overhead costs and eased the impact of dramatic market downturns. Specializing in the stocks of small and medium-sized... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

especially small- and medium-sized domestic companies. They provide the jobs, the income, and the motivation for individuals to become educated and move up in the world. For local business to flourish, however, it often needs access to... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

Alfred Chandler, it became clear that Thyssen was developing many features of the "visible hand" of management that paralleled U.S. methods without aping them, including the seminal multidivisional form. Q: Many of us have a stereotype of the German View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Feb 2016
First Look

February 9, 2016

proportion of cross-institutional publications between funded and unfunded firms. Specifically, we measure the impact on each of these variables based on three dimensions—small- and medium-sized enterprises... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707446 SAP: Industry Transformation (A) Harvard Business School Case 707-435 SAP seeks growth in the small- and medium-sized enterprise market.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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