Size - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

led by Peter Barrett, PhD, faculty chair, and an advisory board of seasoned business and biotechnology leaders who serve as one-on-one mentors and provide strategic direction during the fellows' program year. “Since joining the Blavatnik Fellowship five years ago, the... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Disrupting India’s Dental Market

ethical standards.” Indian dental clinics, where size is measured in the unit of chairs, had much smaller overhead, with a specialist’s time by far the most expensive element. For that reason—perhaps along with advertising restrictions... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

05 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit

time and effort in conserving the mangroves that reside on of its headquarters land just outside of Mumbai. India has an interesting CSR policy, which came up a few times in our conversations with companies. In 2013, India enacted a law requiring that companies above a... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Ink: Start Small, Rise Above

the way businesses get paid, we can change the US economy. Sometimes people look at me like I’m a sandwich short of a picnic when I say that, but I know this can be done. We are on a mission to enable businesses of all sizes to have... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

17 Oct 2019
News

Venturing Away from Venture Capital

ultra-high-net-worth individuals, and micro-VC firms whose relatively small size translates into a willingness to proceed at a pace and scale that are sustainable over time. She has also won a fair bit of grant money and is currently... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Jan 2002
News

Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

others, which is much more difficult to do in developed nations." Starbucks met that challenge by creating a "third place" for the customer between home and office, increasing the size of its stores and adding enticements such as soft... View Details

24 Jul 2014
Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

that increase the required size of a foreign target to ensure the tax benefits of an inversion can deter these transactions but can also lead to more substantive transactions. More substantive transactions are likely to involve the loss... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Corporate Strategy

structure for meetings where managers can quickly see which aspects of their strategy are succeeding and where they are falling short. The causal relationships enable managers to test whether the theory of their strategy is valid. Q: Does it matter what View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

you build it, they will come' kind of marketing." "Our goal is to foster habits of mind, ways to be present to one's work," he explained. "We realize that because of our small size we're not going to train people to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

shifted his research to project finance, one of the hottest applications of leveraged finance today. "The projects I study are financed with 65 to 90 percent debt, compared with 25 to 35 percent for the typical industrial firm," he notes. Both the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Jan 2004
News

Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

which asked Nielsen to remain as chairman and CEO for five more years. He agreed and doubled the size of the company during that time. With revenues of $165 million and 2,500 employees in five countries on three continents, Hazleton was... View Details

01 Jan 2006
News

Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969

developed a loan guarantee program for Palestinian banks that enables them to increase the size of the loans they make to small and medium-sized businesses. “The views of businesspeople in the region tend to be more moderate,” notes... View Details

01 Jan 2007
News

Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968

a current client and supplier, Google, which has shown an interest in expanding its reach beyond online search advertising and aims to use the entire gamut of video, audio, and print media to create advertisements for companies of all View Details

28 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

second piece of legislation, the Small Business Jobs Act (SBJA), temporarily continued the increased guarantees and fee waivers, and permanently increased SBA loan size limits from $2 million up to $5 million; the maximum microloan grew... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking

09 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

impact. Nonetheless, boards have been focusing strictly on monetary rewards as an incentive for CEOs to achieve desired results, tying the returns that go to stockholders to the size of the chief executive's paycheck. At the same time,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

02 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 2

size and age in shaping intra- and inter-cultural trust. Relative firm size has a stronger negative effect on executives' cognition-based trust if their partners were of a different cultural ethnicity.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: January 5

externalities, two traditionally under-emphasized forces, exert consistently strong effects. Within each macro network, there is a large heterogeneity across subsidiaries. Subsidiaries with greater size and higher productivity attract... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2006
News

The Producers

audiences to the theater than selling toys and other consumer product tie-ins, which is a significant revenue stream for studios. At Roadside Attractions, Eric d’Arbeloff (MBA 1993) has found a niche as a distributor of independent films such as the fast-food... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf Abstract—Top management structures in large U.S. firms have changed significantly since the mid-1980s. While the size of the executive team-the group of managers reporting directly to the CEO-doubled during this... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

13 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants

ad effectiveness might come down to the size of the brand. eBay may not have experienced as much of a boost from its ads since its brand was widely known long before the ads appeared, whereas highlighting the mere presence of a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

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