Small Firms Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 May 2013
News

Looking Through Glass, Historically

Dolphin Comport: To Wilson, the bowl of this piece (c. 1929) "suggests a body in an endless pirouette." Photo Courtesy of Charlie Wilson When Charlie Wilson (MBA 1967) was a small boy, he lived for a time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with... View Details

Keywords: Visual arts; crafts; glass making; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

Business School and Professor in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Even though Chipotle’s supply chain is shorter, with fewer intermediaries between supplier and restaurant, the use of local... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

JP(D) and foreign inventors JP(F) patenting in Japan. Source: Tom Nicholas, "The Origins of Japanese Technological Modernization", Explorations in Economic History (2011, forthcoming). http://people.hbs.edu/tnicholas/Jmod.pdf Willy C. Shih, Professor of View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

specific to Lincoln Center's international business development initiatives. MD Anderson Health Care Cost Management Focus: Health Care Value Team: Stephen Schleicher Description: Our project's purpose was to assess the actual cost (vs.... View Details

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2.17 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA

their Program Managers directly and not use the Student Absence Notification Tool to report that they will need to be absent from a session. Participation Due to the condensed format and teamwork required in Immersive Field Courses,... View Details

15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

themselves more and worry about mission impact. I believe nonprofit leaders get too bogged down in operational issues, be it fundraising, or managing the board, or program execution. They need to be more strategic. Q: What role can HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

David Blumenthal, professor at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital; Michael Newman, a senior research manager at Harris Interactive; Kinga Zapert, vice president for... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

20 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

Consolidation and the Institutional Contingency of Professional Counter-Mobilization in US Banking Authors:Christopher Marquis and Michael Lounsbury Periodical:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Past Issues - Alumni

us—and what we still need to learn Leading with Heart How personal tragedy shaped the empathetic management style of Panera CEO Niren Chaudhary My Favorite Case Alumni reflect on the class discussions and case protagonists that indelibly... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

the College Avenue facility as a state-of-the-art ice-cream plant. Fifteen years later, the firm was on the verge of bankruptcy when Dreyer’s son, then in charge, sold it to key officers, including Ken Cook, who took over as president. It... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

online advertisers, these are poor substitutes.4 The harm to advertisers will be particularly acute for those advertisers that currently advertise on Yahoo for average to obscure search terms—e.g., small businesses selling unusual... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

01 Feb 1998
News

Running Up the Score

adds that Nike's soccer equipment sales, while soaring, still represent a relatively small percentage of the company's nearly $9 billion in total sales. Nike is working to change this by moving aggressively into the $5 billion... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni

HBS students and recent alumni who are making a difference working in Asia. The GO: ASIA Fellowship is awarded to a small number of graduating students who accept a full-time post-HBS job in Asia with total guaranteed annual compensation... View Details

23 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

vulnerable to superior service alternatives. Along the way, we also show that firms trade off price and service quality and that when the incumbent offers relatively low service quality in a local market, it is susceptible to the entry or... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jan 2018
News

Finding Faith in an NFL Locker Room

of family members, taking care of bills, managing personal relationships, balancing work-life with family. You've got a lot of players who are married, that have children. And spend a lot of time away from their children, and oftentimes... View Details

October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
Supplement

Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting... View Details

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03 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

short-term debt financing, an attractive source of funding in good times but an accelerant of financial crises when things go bad. And we're getting closer to adopting a "resolution regime" that could enable regulators to wind down a financial View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

accreditation. Also, the use of the LEED standard increased among private builders in the same local markets. "Our paper describes several different ways in which these policies might stimulate private markets for greener building," says Toffel, an associate professor... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

happened in natural gas in the late 1980s and early 1990s. And, there's always money to be saved in industrial sourcing. If management really focuses on purchasing and puts effort into it, you can always save money by creating more... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

03 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

tomorrow are going to be of the unsavory variety, 30 years of experience dealing with Iran shows that neglect and isolation are ineffective strategies for managing conflict. Second, diplomacy is about identifying what makes this situation... View Details

Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities

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