Small Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track

business at the intersection of consumer electronics, media, and lifestyle branding. Skullcandy, which Andrus helped build with founder and former CEO Rick Alden, is expecting between $280 and $300 million in revenues this year. The... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

24 Apr 2014
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Digital ID network empowers individuals, disrupts the data brokers

disadvantage of the Internet has been a lack of trust. We are creating trust and disrupting data brokers by providing individuals with a medium that provides them with control over the use of their personal data.” says Hall. ID.me was awarded Most Veteran-Friendly... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Contributing to a Better Future

attending HBS, Keller worked at McKinsey and then served as global program director for Open for Business, a small LGBTQ+ rights nonprofit that used research on the connections between business performance,... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2010
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Additional alumni books for your consideration.

The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work by Cathleen Benko (MBA ’89) and Molly Anderson (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors argue that a lattice model rather than the corporate ladder is... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

23 Jan 2019
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The Promise of Personalized Medicine

passion. It’s just my passion is the technology, not the problem. That’s a great way of doing things. Many really good businesses have been built up on that. The other way, that’s more familiar to me, is saying, I have a problem and I... View Details

23 Oct 2018
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Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart

say. So that was just one small piece of this sort of obsession with perfection, which just happened to spill over into this oratorical competition. My sister and her friends helped me come up with a speech, and I just rehearsed and... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Celebrating Women at HBS

and other faculty members will present his new case, "Women at HBS and in Business." Featured speakers will include Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995), COO of Facebook; Ann Moore (MBA 1978), former chairman of Time Inc.; and Karen Gordon Mills (MBA 1977), administrator of the... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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Kiwi Star

WHINERAY: A national hero looks back. Photos by (L) Getty Images; (R) David White/ New Zealand Herald One of five brothers growing up in New Zealand during World War II, Sir Wilson Whineray (MBA 1969) experienced a childhood in which “the View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom

small monthly fee of about $6 for access to primary health care and specialists for urban individuals and families with annual incomes of less than $3,500. This is just the sort of BoP business solution that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

30 Mar 2017
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Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest

and all those other things, that also established the basis of long-term relationships starting to be built outside strictly conflict. And we didn't have any marriages out of this or anything. I'm not suggesting that. But that was absolutely necessary. And in a View Details

24 Apr 2014
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For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success

beekeeping demonstrations and training. It purchases honey at fair-trade prices and also processes, packages, and distributes the honey to markets. HCA’s business model, which is being replicated in other African countries, places an... View Details

04 Mar 2008
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HBS Blogs

if necessary, of the blog’s subjects and a note about how long it has been going. This list probably represents only a very small fraction of the alumni blogs that are out there, so please send us Web addresses of HBS blogs you know of... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

21 Mar 2019
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Helping Veterans Build Careers

the quality of the jobs and that employers recognize the value of veterans.” The success has benefited vets like Watson, who landed an IT job for a small business owner and was quickly promoted. That’s the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

06 Dec 2021
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New Wave

control room, located in a converted shipping container The hardware reset was successful, and Oscilla recently deployed a version of Triton off the coast of Hawaii. (Known as Triton-C, this iteration should someday be capable of powering View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

10 Aug 2015
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Support for the Healers

currently run Schwarz Rounds in the UK. Point of Care offers Sandford the chance to use her business experience to maximize the impact of a small nonprofit with a large mission. “We're engaged in a space... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People

50 years of marriage, together the Krafts left a lasting legacy through their philanthropic endeavors, particularly in their work to help underserved children and to further cancer research. Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977 Administrator, US View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

04 Sep 2019
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Clicks and Mortar

selfies, where you can take a picture of yourself in Glossier pink and share that on social media. They might serve a small number people during a pop-up experience, but if those people send that message out on social media, the effect is... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

18 Apr 2019
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Community Celebrates Dedication of Schwartz Common and Pavilion

and Pavilion recognize a gift from the Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation in honor of Schwartz’s 50th Reunion. Schwartz (MBA 1970) and family members were on hand for the dedication ceremony. “The sense of place on Harvard View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Case Study: Something New

over and over. Additionally, because most women aren’t fashion design- ers, it reduces the overwhelming responsibility of designing some- thing from scratch. —Erica Keany Blob (MBA 2006) Change the business model, and morph into a... View Details