Small Companies - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jun 2017
News

Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement

is filling a need in the market. That is due, in no small way, to the fact that top-performing senior executive women remain critically underrepresented in corporate governance across all industries. Currently only about 19 percent of... View Details

Keywords: Margaret Kelley

Career Coach

Warren Radtke

been a small business owner. Work Experience: General Electric, Right Management Consultants, Interim Executive assignments in Human Resources/Talent Management; Director of a nonprofit urban grant making agency; View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing; Social Enterprise

Joseph W. Crosby

Crosby built a small $3 million military supply (jet propulsion fuels) company into a $275 million advanced research and development operation. During his tenure, Thiokol designed sophisticated rocket launch... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

Profile

Thomas Grenier

in Asia. "Eventually," Thomas says, "I'd like to apply entrepreneurial thinking to a small company — to take an existing company and make it great." View Details

Richard T. Crane

Beginning with a small brass foundry at his Uncle’s lumber yard, Crane built one of the largest plumbing supply companies in the world. Though he diversified into the manufacture of elevators in the late... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

10 May 2023
News

Students Strive to Solve Climate Change

As part of the Business & Environment Initiative’s “Accelerating Climate Solutions” conference on May 10, 2023, four HBS MBA Class of 2023 students discuss their efforts toward solving climate challenges: Chidalu Onyenso founded EarthBond to link Nigerians with... View Details

Keywords: Carbon capture

01 Dec 2018
News

Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders

(founded in 2013) and too small (valuation of $55 million) to pass muster for listing on any exchange. But for the 1,080 people who otherwise would have been shut out of owning a piece of the startup—lacking the wealth or credentials to... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

Lore Harp

company apart from other competitors. Taking the company public in 1981, Harp became one of the first women to head a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

22 Sep 2015
News

Getting New Ideas off the Ground

of the things that we learned was that you could target advertising in a very different way if you were to think about the cable infrastructure differently. So we built another company in the advertising technology space, called Spot... View Details

Profile

Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde

the broad connections of international field work. In her internship, Tuce will work with a Colombian non-profit that connects MBA students with small or start-up companies looking for expert advice. “I was... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Entrepreneurship

02 Jan 2014
Blog Post

Preparing for a career in investment banking

on evaluating a firm to name a few. The majority of people I met were people that I found from searching class cards. I am infinitely grateful for all the people who spared me their precious time. By the time actual company presentations... View Details

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

moment, and elbow their rivals aside. However tough the market or small the transaction, they know exactly what they must give up—and what they can get away with—while finalizing deals under pressure. N. R. Narayana Murthy, the man who... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

called a "true credit crunch," rendering capital scarce, new companies need to look more seriously at outsourcing. "Money was so easy [that small companies] could own and employ everything... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

07 Jun 2011
News

Back to the Future

undergraduate, Alden did read economist Joseph Schumpeter on entrepreneurship and wrote his honors thesis on his father as an entrepreneur of the family company. At HBS, Alden notes that several courses were helpful to anyone starting or running View Details

25 Apr 2014
Blog Post

Get the Scoop on Date Release at HBS

for details on the many ways to connect with current students. We have a variety of options throughout the year, including interviews in Boston and San Francisco, company presentations, and small group... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Power Trip

field. Business really didn’t have anything like that. So as part of our work for the Leadership Initiative, Nitin and I compiled a list of 1,000 founders or CEOs who led U.S.-based companies for at least five years between 1900 and 2000.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Fast Answer

Private companies: fast growing

Companies, Small Giants: Best Small Companies) Fortune Rankings (ex: 100 Fastest Growing Companies) Inc. 5000 FormDs.com Nearly all startups and investment firms file Form Ds with... View Details

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

emerged in areas ranging from labor markets to credit applications to housing—sometimes made worse by a lack of regulation, the absence of in-person interactions, and the use of automation and big data. How can companies reverse the tide?... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Career Coach

Scott Renner

consulting (or both). He often discusses the tradeoffs of the two paths, and can help craft a dual search approach if needed. Scott’s experience in both large and small companies working in traditional roles... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing; Real Estate

Amos Hostetter, Jr.

With a few thousand dollars, Hostetter and a partner embarked on the development of a small cable company in the early sixties. Beginning with two small towns in Ohio,... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

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