Small Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Being patients compelled us. Sequoia inspired us. HBS sustained us.

better than us. Which at the time, wasn’t saying much. Today, Deborah and I (an HBS MBA 2010 graduate) run FertilityIQ, an online educational resource used by over 90% of all US fertility patients. We’re imperfect, but we’ve managed to help patients and build an... View Details

2009
Working Paper

Does Competition Favor Delegation?

By: Christian Alejandro Ruzzier

This paper studies the consequences of product-market competition on firms' decisions to delegate more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the choice of both competitive actions and organizational design, the paper makes... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Competition; Decision Making

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01 Aug 1998
News

Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

linked to the Harvard Business School in perpetuity through the building that will bear their name." Speaking briefly, Spangler thanked the Dean for the opportunity to make an investment so closely tied to the quality of student life at... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

02 Aug 2021
What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

management back to the home office is applicable. Is it limited to businesses and organizations in which collaboration is important? Does it apply more to large than small organizations? "We can ask how far... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

09 Feb 2012
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing

Groupon Effective? Is Groupon Good for Retailers? For retailers offering deals through the wildly popular online start-up Groupon, does the one-day publicity compensate for the deep hit to profit margins? A new working paper, "To Groupon or Not to Groupon," sets out to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Technology

28 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 28

distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929. Despite their failures, this first... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2005
News

Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971

wanted to join a small business where I had maximum opportunity for growth. Drive-In Concessions gave that to me," he explains. Less than a year later, O'Donnell worked out a deal with Sportservice, the... View Details

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

spread over 45 countries. Comcraft produces steel, plastics, and aluminum products. Chandaria had the option of taking well-paying jobs after his studies in the United States and India in 1951, but opted to take the risk of working in the View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

23 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf

so rapidly over the past 18 months of being home-bound by the pandemic that many of the world’s pressing plants are backed up with orders until 2023. The Harvard Gazette spoke with Caren Kelleher, a 2010 Harvard Business School graduate... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Music

04 Oct 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

in his upcoming book, Win From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage, available in January 2022. References: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro, Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

Most company distribution systems are designed ad-hoc when needed, and serve neither value chain partners nor end users well—just look at the frustrating new-car buying process set up by American auto makers. At the same time, says Harvard View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
Supplement

Keroche (C): The Excise Tax Increase

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding

This case discusses the Kenyan government’s decision to increase excise taxes on wines in 2007. The tax increase would cause an average increase in price of 367% on Keroche’s fortified wines. Meanwhile, Keroche’s competitor EABL had effectively lobbied the government... View Details

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16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

people who are thinking about it. But the HR director is a very experienced and quite strategic thinker and he's an adviser to the CEO on strategy as well as the CFO and others. SS: How does a small business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Intermediation Best Paper Award for "Large Banks and Small Firm Lending" (October 2021) with Vitaly Bord and Ryan D. Taliaferro. Kristin W. Mugford : Received the 2021 HBS Student Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching. Ishita... View Details

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

phenomenon, suggesting that the benefits of stock-bond diversification have increased in all developed markets. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52494 Harvard Business School Case 417-054 Merging... View Details

27 Jan 2014
Blog Post

Opportunity Abounds

natural resource: human capital. I found that most Indians are incredibly entrepreneurial, much more than in the West, where a large number of people are needed to work in large corporations for other people. For comparison, India has around 40 million View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Dec 2016
News

In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)

challenge over the next few years,” says Brewer. He describes the mix of business and a sport he loves as “a great and fortunate combination.” Putt-putt: “I don’t remember how old I was when I first picked up a club, which means I was... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

Innovation Lab. Upon his appointment last year, Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria named innovation, along with globalization and business ethics, as one of the most important focuses of the School... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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