Small Business Administration - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Nov 2022
News

From Kodak to Nokia, why do so many big companies end up failing?

15 Apr 2020
News

Alberto Cavallo is the Thomas S. Murphy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a... View Details

27 May 2021
News

Rethinking Commuter Benefits for a Hybrid-Work World

04 Aug 2014
News

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

Tomomichi Amano

Tomomichi Amano is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at HBS. He teaches the Marketing course in the MBA required curriculum.

Professor Amano draws on economic theories to understand novel mechanisms by which new... View Details

13 Jun 2025
Video

The AI Journey: What Changes, What Remains the Same

28 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

applications. This facilitates access of small business to large company purchasing while reducing the administrative burden on the smaller companies and increasing their... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Richard S. Ruback

Richard S. Ruback is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He is currently focusing his research in applied corporate finance, especially... View Details

Ishita Sen

Ishita Sen is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit. She teaches the Finance I course in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Sen’s research focuses on financial intermediation, asset pricing, and insurance markets. In her current... View Details

20 Feb 2015
News

How the sharing economy is changing the value of ownership

March 2021
Article

Loan Guarantees and Credit Supply

By: Natalie Bachas, Olivia S. Kim and Constantine Yannelis

The efficiency of federal lending guarantees depends on whether guarantees increase lending supply or simply act as a subsidy to lenders. We use notches in the guarantee rate schedule for Small Business Administration (SBA) loans to estimate the elasticity of bank... View Details

Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Financing and Loans; Banks and Banking; Credit

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09 Sep 2015
News

Entrepreneurship: Increasingly, the Province of the Wealthy

Emily Williams

Emily Williams is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit, teaching the Finance II course to MBA students. Professor Williams’ research focuses on financial intermediation, traditional intermediation and payments, the use of technology... View Details

Max H. Bazerman

Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His recent books... View Details

Keywords: accounting industry; management consulting; pharmaceuticals

12 Nov 2014
News

Time to Restart Small, Medium Bank M&A

07 Jun 2025
Video

Data, Tariffs, and Inflation: Tracking the Truth Behind Political Claims

16 Jun 2021
News

Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

Samuel B. Antill

Samuel Antill is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the Finance II course in the MBA required curriculum.

Professor Antill’s research interests are in corporate... View Details

August 2016 (Revised March 2019)
Case

Tom Kalil: Leading Technology & Innovation at the White House

By: Linda A. Hill and Allison J. Wigen

This case explores the role of Tom Kalil as Deputy Director for Technology & Innovation at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. With the end of President Obama's Administration drawing near, Kalil and his team of "policy entrepreneurs" must work to... View Details