Small And Medium Enterprises - Publications - Faculty & Research

2017
Working Paper

The Benefits of Selective Disclosure: Evidence from Private Firms

By: Joan Farre-Mensa

Private firms’ ability to communicate confidentially with selected investors implies that valuation disagreements between firms and investors are larger at public firms than at private ones. Consistent with the notion that misvaluation concerns lead public firms to... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Equity; Private Companies; Corporate Cash; Precautionary Motives; Share Issuance; IPOs; Selective Disclosure; Private Ownership; Cash; Market Timing; Corporate Finance; Public Ownership; Corporate Disclosure; United States

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01 Apr 2001
News

William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency

speedily sourcing garments and apparel for customers in the West. Its solid reputation is based on its ability to meet required specifications at a competitive price. Fung believes his company’s levelheaded approach to the IT revolution... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores

01 Dec 1999
News

Christensen and Vernon Remembered

international trade and investment. In 1965 he was asked to direct the School's Multinational Enterprise Project to study the operations of U.S.- and foreign-based... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

What’s after Fannie and Freddie?

administration in February proposed phasing out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored enterprises whose collective missteps have cost taxpayers more than $134 billion since... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

to the purposes of the old consumption, according to the principles of the old capitalism. The new medium will not fulfill its historic destiny without a new enterprise logic capable of liberating its... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

have several great examples of that. First of all, Nestlé. Since World War II, Nestlé's milk has by and large been produced by thousands of small farmers in developing countries. View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

February 2008 (Revised February 2009)
Case

The International Finance Corporation's Grassroots Business Initiative

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee

Grassroots Business Initiative was set up to financially assist small enterprises engaged in creating social value. Three years later, Harold Rosen, its creator, wished to explore an alternative funding model to provide it with scale and sustainability. View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Investment Funds; Social Enterprise

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Find at Harvard

09 Aug 2012
News

Big Business Does Best In Washington When It Plays the Underdog

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

entrepreneurial course development. The Management of New Enterprises course of 1947 was joined in the 1950s by Small Manufacturing Enterprises (SME), taught by Frank Tucker... View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

With cross-sector collaborations on the rise, a new book exploring partnerships between business and social organizations in the Americas comes at just the right time. Social Partnering in Latin America: Lessons Drawn from Collaborations... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

September 2013
Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Junko Yoda and Her Collaboration to Address Sex Trafficking in Asia

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins

In 2011, Junko Yoda with Pam McCambridge launched CLinked, a venture aimed to reduce human trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation. Since incorporation, they launched several different pilot programs in partnership with local non-governmental... View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Social Issues; Non-Governmental Organizations; Public Administration Industry; Indonesia

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2013
Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Junko Yoda and Her Collaboration to Address Sex Trafficking in Asia

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins

n 2011, Junko Yoda with Pam McCambridge launched CLinked, a venture aimed to reduce human trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation. Since incorporation, they launched several different pilot programs in partnership with local non-governmental... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Crime and Corruption; Gender; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Leadership; Change Management; Public Administration Industry; Indonesia; Asia

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24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

professorship? Why not endow a scholarship? Why not endow a laboratory?" Bolnick said. In the long run, he said, this kind of assistance is more valuable than doing nothing and, in the medium term, business will benefit from an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

June 30, 2020
Article

Bipartisan Tax-Free Solution to Health Care Financing: Coupling HRAs With a Public Option

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Richard Boxer and James Wallace

A combination of health insurance initiatives by the presumptive 2020 Democratic and Republican presidential nominees could expand health care coverage and significantly reduce costs, without raising taxes. Along the way, the combination could revitalize private... View Details

Keywords: Health Care Financing; Public Option; Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA); Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost Management

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02 Feb 2017
News

Growing and Competing at the Local Level

feet, and move on to the next one. “With the Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing and Productivity, we are one of the 51 manufacturing extension partnership centers across the country to help View Details

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Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog

including small and large companies, family-owned ventures, private and public firms, and US and international... View Details

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/719437-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 619-019 Lexoo: Building a Long-Lasting Platform Daniel van Binsbergen, Lexoo’s CEO, and web developer Chris O’Sullivan, CTO, had set up Lexoo,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Women, Work, and the "M" Word

from their employer (62%) and health insurance carriers (73%). Yet, most US workplaces—unlike their British counterparts—do not offer benefits specifically geared towards menopause. This is exactly the gap that Elektra Health is filling... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

don’t make it past five years. Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson want to help today’s entrepreneurs beat the odds by revealing the unseen tethers that keep small businesses from growing View Details

November 2009
Article

Finding Missing Markets (and a Disturbing Epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya

By: Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan

Farmers may grow crops for local consumption despite more profitable export options. DrumNet, a Kenyan NGO that helps small farmers adopt and market export crops, conducted a randomized trial to evaluate its impact. DrumNet services increased production of export crops... View Details