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Building Small Business Utopia: How Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Can Increase Small Business Success

Small business lending has remained unchanged for decades, laden with frictions and barriers that prevent many small businesses from accessing the capital they need to succeed. Financial technology, or “fintech,” promises to change this trajectory. In 2010, new fintech... View Details
  • March 2008
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Linguistic Network Configurations: Management of Innovation in Design-intensive Firms

By: Claudio Dell'Era, Alessio Marchesi and Roberto Verganti
In today's business and academic arenas, design is more and more viewed as an important strategic resource. In fact, over the last couple of years, we have seen a real explosion in business and research literature that see scholars and companies alike trying to... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Design; Innovation and Management; Product Development
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Dell'Era, Claudio, Alessio Marchesi, and Roberto Verganti. "Linguistic Network Configurations: Management of Innovation in Design-intensive Firms." International Journal of Innovation Management 12, no. 1 (March 2008).
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Creating Firm Disclosures

By: Amir Amel-Zadeh, Alexandra Scherf and Eugene F. Soltes
Managers expend significant time and effort preparing disclosures about firm performance and strategy. Although prior literature has explored how variation in the style and presentation of disclosures impacts investors' perceptions of firms, little is known about how... View Details
Keywords: Disclosure; Earnings Conference Call; Field Study; MD&A; Textual Analysis; Corporate Disclosure
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Amel-Zadeh, Amir, Alexandra Scherf, and Eugene F. Soltes. "Creating Firm Disclosures." Journal of Financial Reporting 4, no. 2 (Fall 2019): 1–31.
  • 01 Mar 2014
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No Small Beer

The biggest thing in the beer business these days is the little guy. Research firm Technomics reported that the craft beer and premium import market rose almost 15 percent in 2012, with an "upward trajectory" that continued in 2013. And... View Details
Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; craft beer; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

    Building small business utopia: how artificial intelligence and Big Data can increase small business success

    Small business lending has remained unchanged for decades, laden with frictions and barriers that prevent many small businesses from accessing the capital they need to succeed. Financial technology, or “fintech,” promises to change this trajectory. In 2010, new fintech... View Details
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Patent Trolls and Small Business Employment

    By: Ian Appel, Joan Farre-Mensa and Elena Simintzi
    We analyze how frivolous patent-infringement claims made by “patent trolls” affect small firms’ ability to create jobs, raise capital, and survive. Our identification strategy exploits the staggered passage of anti-patent-troll laws at the state level. We find that the... View Details
    Keywords: Patent Trolls; Patents; Small Business; Employment; Venture Capital
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    Appel, Ian, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Elena Simintzi. "Patent Trolls and Small Business Employment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-072, February 2017.
    • March 2007
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    Authority, Risk, and Performance Incentives: Evidence from Division Manager Positions inside Firms

    By: Julie Wulf
    I show that performance incentives vary by decision-making authority of division managers. For division managers with broader authority, i.e., those designated as corporate officers, both the sensitivity of pay to global performance measures and the relative importance... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Performance; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Model; Globalization; Measurement and Metrics; Status and Position; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Divisions
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    Wulf, Julie. "Authority, Risk, and Performance Incentives: Evidence from Division Manager Positions inside Firms." Journal of Industrial Economics 55, no. 1 (March 2007): 169–196.
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Management as a Technology?

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
    Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country... View Details
    Keywords: Management Practices; Productivity; Competition; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity
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    Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Management as a Technology?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-133, June 2016. (Revised October 2017.)
    • 06 Sep 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

    on inner work life," Amabile says. "This is good news! Big breakthroughs at work are really rare. But small wins are something people can experience pretty regularly if the work is chunked down to View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 01 Jun 2024
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    Firm Foundation

    Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
    Keywords: Janelle Nanos; private equity; Warren Buffett; career path; investment strategy; family business; Finance
    • Oct 05 2015
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    Improving Firm Performance

    • 2015
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    The Corporate Headquarters in the Contemporary Corporation: Advancing a Multimarket Firm Perspective

    By: Markus Menz, Sven Kunisch and David J. Collis
    The corporate headquarters (CHQ) is the central organizational unit in the contemporary corporation and is critical for value creation in the overall firm. Since the early 1960s, a significant body of research on the CHQ has evolved along two separate but related... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Headquarters; Corporate Center; Corporate Parent; Corporate Strategy; Multimarket Firm; Multibusiness Firm; Multinational Corporation; Management; Organizations; Strategy
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    Menz, Markus, Sven Kunisch, and David J. Collis. "The Corporate Headquarters in the Contemporary Corporation: Advancing a Multimarket Firm Perspective." Academy of Management Annals 9 (2015): 633–714.
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Managing Firms in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from the Time Use of Indian CEOs

    By: Raffaella Sadun
    The success or failure of a company is often ascribed to the behavior of its CEO. Yet little is known about what top managers actually do, whether this matters for firm performance, and why it differs across firms. We provide some answers by developing a new survey... View Details
    Keywords: Management Style; Performance; Outcome or Result; Management Teams; Manufacturing Industry; India
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    Sadun, Raffaella. "Managing Firms in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from the Time Use of Indian CEOs." Working Paper, 2013.
    • November 2012
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    Does Management Really Work?

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
    HBR's 90th anniversary is a sensible time to revisit a basic question: Are organizations more likely to succeed if they adopt good management practices? The answer may seem obvious to most HBR readers, but these three economists cast their net much wider than that. In... View Details
    Keywords: Best Practices; Consulting Firms; Corporations; Cost Control; Employee Training; Executive Ability (Management); Executives—training Of; Hospitals—administration; Industrial Management—research; Productivity Incentives; School Management Teams; Work Environment; Management; Research
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    Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Does Management Really Work?" Harvard Business Review 90, no. 11 (November 2012).
    • 01 Feb 2012
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

    then the obvious answer (to the question) is NO!" Other comments emphasized values of small business for management development. David Lindsay commented that " View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 1 Aug 2010
    • Conference Presentation

    Firm Performance, Top Management and Minority Hiring: African‐American Coaches in the NFL, 1970‐2007

    By: Andrew Hill and David Thomas
    Studies of minority hiring have found that low-status firms are more likely to hire minority candidates. However, most work has examined hiring for entry and mid-level positions, not senior management, which differs in the level of 1) uncertainty regarding the optimal... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Management Teams; Recruitment; Relationships; Risk and Uncertainty; Ethnicity; Sports Industry; Africa; United States
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    Hill, Andrew, and David Thomas. "Firm Performance, Top Management and Minority Hiring: African‐American Coaches in the NFL, 1970‐2007." Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC, August 01, 2010.
    • May 2006
    • Article

    How Do Family Ownership, Control, and Management Affect Firm Value?

    Keywords: Family Ownership; Business Ventures; Value
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    Villalonga, Belen, and Raphael Amit. "How Do Family Ownership, Control, and Management Affect Firm Value?" Journal of Financial Economics 80, no. 2 (May 2006): 385–417.
    • 03 Apr 2020
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    The Small Business Administration Confronts an Historic Crisis

    • November 2018
    • Case

    Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Small Businesses Program

    By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Aldo Sesia
    In 2008, Goldman Sachs started the 10,000 Small Businesses program to help small businesses in the United States by providing education and a network of support—at no cost —and access to capital. It required the firm to create a new business ecosystem with a wide... View Details
    Keywords: Ecosystem; Public/private Partnership; Small Business; Programs; Education; Partners and Partnerships; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States
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    Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Aldo Sesia. "Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Small Businesses Program." Harvard Business School Case 319-005, November 2018.
    • June 2016
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    Advika Consulting Services: Challenges and Opportunities in Managing Human Capital

    By: Alison Wood Brooks, Francesca Gino, Julia J. Lee and Bradley R. Staats
    Keywords: Consulting Firms; Consulting Industry
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    Brooks, Alison Wood, Francesca Gino, Julia J. Lee, and Bradley R. Staats. "Advika Consulting Services: Challenges and Opportunities in Managing Human Capital." Harvard Business School Case 916-033, June 2016.
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