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  • 2017
  • Book

HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Find, acquire, and run your own business. Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: you can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurs; Small Companies; Small Business Finance; Negotiation; Due Diligence; Sourcing; Search Funds; Search; Deal Sourcing; Deal Structuring; Funnel; Debt Financing; Small And Medium Enterprises; Small Business; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation Deal; Ownership; Equity; Borrowing and Debt
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  • November–December 2022
  • Article

Your Company Needs a Space Strategy. Now.

By: Matthew Weinzierl, Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Alan MacCormack and Brendan Rosseau
Space is becoming a potential source of value for businesses across a range of sectors, including agriculture, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, and tourism. To understand what the opportunities are for your company, the authors advise you to consider the four ways in... View Details
Keywords: Space Strategy; Emerging Markets; Natural Resources; Analytics and Data Science; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Adaptation; Competition; Aerospace Industry
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  • 26 Apr 2023
  • In Practice

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

irrelevant construct when considering how to harness generative AI’s capabilities. Processes ranging from negotiating contracts with vendors to developing marketing messages will be redesigned from the ground up in order to exploit the full View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Doing It Your Way

potential employees and investors as well as to customers." Your Inner Entrepreneur But if entrepreneurship is, as Professor Howard Stevenson defines it, truly "a way of managing" rather than a specific set... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)
  • 16 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

offering refunds, deferred payments, and no charges to small businesses experiencing financial hardship, knowing these companies are likely to continue as long-term clients. Turn threats into opportunities. Instead of waiting for their customers, firms need to... View Details
Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service

    Keep Your AI Projects on Track

    AI—and especially its newest star, generative AI—is today a central theme in corporate boardrooms, leadership discussions, and casual exchanges among employees eager to supercharge their productivity. Sadly, beneath the aspirational headlines and tantalizing... View Details
    • 26 Mar 2008
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!

    Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How does disaster change leadership goals?... View Details
    • 17 Sep 2014
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills

    Knowledge for a decade-and-a-half. Here are a number of articles and working papers you might find beneficial in upping your negotiation game. Negotiators Should Remain Cool And Collected. Right? The Role of Emotions in Effective... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Mar 2009
    • News

    Your Taxi Is Waiting

    reservation system, or phone, a customer reserved the entire plane, with pricing set on a per-hour basis. A typical day trip, such as the Boston–Syracuse example above, would run $4,400. Divided among the Caravan’s eight passengers, the per-person cost could View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation
    • 10 Feb 2016
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development

    Few of us want to take less money to move to another organization, but Boris Groysberg and Abhijit Naik point to research that shows hooking up with the right manager—whether in sports or business—can quickly increase your value even if... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
    • 01 Sep 2018
    • News

    Your Keyboard Is Listening

    potential to change how doctors diagnose and treat neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and Alzheimer’s. Samzelius and his team at NeuraMetrix, based in the Bay Area, had been studying typing cadence, measuring how... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • 19 Mar 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Unlocking Your Investment Capital

    extreme, poorly implemented risk management can lead to the firm's demise. Under Sarbanes-Oxley 404, both the CEO and CFO have to attest with personal liability to the accuracies of the financial statements (including footnotes with respect to View Details
    Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
    • 25 Nov 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    When Your Passion Works Against You

    rubs off on everyone around you and attracts enthusiastic people into your orbit.” But when does passion work, and when does it not? Jachimowicz and his team designed a series of six studies to better understand passion in the workplace.... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 14 Jul 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

    typical consumers think. That's fine if you only want to keep making incremental improvements to your products, says Jill Avery, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a former brand manager at Gillette, Samuel Adams, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 22 Feb 2018
    • Blog Post

    Five Steps to Jump Start Your MBA Recruiting at HBS

    you target potential hires with interest in your industry. 2. Familiarize Yourself With the Recruiting Guide – Once you have determined your ideal candidate, review the HBS... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • March 2001 (Revised July 2007)
    • Background Note

    Power and Influence: Achieving Your Objectives in Organizations

    By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Elizabeth Long Lingo
    Power is the potential to mobilize energy. This rather neutral definition does not address the issues of how to exercise power or to what ends. The answers to these questions determine the ultimate value of an individual's power. This note is written to help readers... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Culture; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Value
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    • 03 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

    still do well. Founders who headed still active firms (not yet determined to be a success or a failure by the project sample’s 2021 end date) received a seniority gain of two years when they did move on. Founders’ careers progress higher in the long run. Founders on... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • Blog

    Is AI Coming for Your Job?

    irrelevant construct when considering how to harness generative AI capabilities. Processes ranging from negotiating contracts with vendors to developing marketing messages will be redesigned from the ground up in order to exploit the full View Details
    • October 14, 2022
    • Editorial

    Is Agenda Theater Ruining Your Meetings?

    By: A.V. Whillans, Dave Feldman and Damian Wisniewski
    Like triaging our inboxes, clearing our Slack messages, or managing our to-do lists, preparing an agenda can make us feel like we’ve accomplished something. And when we go through our detailed, bulleted agendas with our colleagues before or during a meeting, it sure... View Details
    Keywords: Management Practices and Processes
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    • 20 Feb 2020
    • Blog Post

    Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology

    experience. You can also connect with the Tech Club to include a job posting in their newsletter or let students know who they can reach out to at your organization for more information. The Power of Remote... View Details
    Keywords: Technology