Small Companies - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2008
News

Sarah Talley’s Key Negotiation Principles

ignore small issues or let things fester. Do not let Wal-Mart become more than 20 percent of your company’s business. It’s hard to negotiate with a company that controls yours. Never go into a meeting... View Details

Keywords: General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2022
News

Ink: Comfort in Discomfort

particular order, are all about survival, growth, or the downfall of enterprise: How the Mighty Fall and Why Some Companies Never Give In, by Jim Collins; A Good African Story: How a Small View Details

03 Aug 2022
News

Hungry for Change

damaged the health of the planet, with single-use plastic from food packaging clogging landfills. Flynn had never imagined herself as an entrepreneur, but she quickly recognized that the food system was not one she could change from within the existing structures. She... View Details

Keywords: April White

Richard W. Sears

After having much success selling a small order of watches he had come across while working as a telegrapher, Sears entered the merchandising business full time and devoted his business to rural, relatively poor farmers. Though Sears was... View Details

Keywords: Retail

04 Mar 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

employees to raise their creative game. But Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, has a different approach, creating an organization that values and rewards innovation rather than attempting to create it with his bare hands. AG Lafley, P&G's chief executive, revivied the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

Jean Nidetch

Nidetch believed that her efforts to lose weight would be enhanced by talking to others going through the same process. What began as a small support group meeting in her New York apartment in 1963 turned into a phenomenally successful... View Details

Keywords: Services

Career Coach

Christina LaMontagne

Christina (HBS '09, Dartmouth '03) has held senior roles across innovative healthcare companies. She has led small digital health companies to achieve market leadership and >$100M ARR and has helped... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

company-no matter how large-was immune to failure, and that the lessons he was learning from startups could be applied far more broadly. "I realized it wasn't just small companies who were fragile, and whose... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts

entertainment player, but it changed the viewing habits of millions of watchers. In this Cold Call Podcast, Anita Elberse discusses her case study on the impact of this pioneering series and the small production View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

24 Apr 2014
News

Reawakening rural America

Jack Schultz (MBA 1976) founded Agracel, an industrial development firm, to boost the economies of rural America in places such as Teutopolis, Illinois, the small farming hamlet where he grew up. The Effingham, Illinois-based View Details

19 Feb 2020
News

Running a Decathlon

Group, a small company that advises and invests in aerospace, defense, and homeland security companies and whose advisory board includes a number of U.S. Air Force generals,... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

6 PM – 8 PM EST, 01 Feb 2016

Alumnae Circles Open House: Boston

Women's groups are launching- are you interested? Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma

keep up, he said, they create the potential for a disrupter to take hold: to fill a ready niche and quietly, over time, expand and invade the market. And as each company gets big and successful, it loses its ability to pursue View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

28 May 2019
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2019

upset me.” Machine dream: “There were companies that displayed different rates and prices. But none of them ever considered why people would want all that information on one screen, with it placed in charts and graphs that allowed users... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan

On December 6, four firms became the first recipients of the Porter Prize, a new award that recognizes innovation in Japanese companies. Matsui Securities Co., Ltd., and Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd., were named the winners in the single-business View Details

Keywords: awards

01 Jan 2008
News

Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

firms that are American household names—Disney, Stride Rite, Procter & Gamble— and then applied her multifaceted talents to a fledgling start-up auction site. During her ten years at the helm, eBay grew from a small operation where... View Details

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Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde

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

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

a rewarding field for American Research and is particularly well suited for creative capital investment. . . . In specialized technical areas with products protected by patents and know-how, it is easier for small View Details

09 Jul 2024
News

On Balance

in the Parliament of Victoria, has the data to back that up, too. According to the agency’s most recent report card, which looks at pandemic-era employment between April 2020 and March 2021 in private companies with 100 or more employees,... View Details

05 Oct 2022
News

Inside the Chip Shortage

says, adding that demand will continue to grow for applications in cars, robots, manufacturing, and health care. Semiconductors are the tools that make it possible to process data, which makes them foundational to modern technology. Most are manufactured by a View Details

Keywords: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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