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- 20 Feb 2018
- News
Electronic Health Records Don’t Reduce Administrative Costs
- January 2021
- Case
PhaseNext: A Minority-Owned Small Business Restaurant Franchisee Confronts COVID-19
Kaufman, Michael S. "PhaseNext: A Minority-Owned Small Business Restaurant Franchisee Confronts COVID-19." Harvard Business School Case 321-100, January 2021.
- 28 Aug 2014
- News
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
- 31 Aug 2024
- News
Expert Steps to Evaluate and Purchase a Small Business
- 25 Jun 2017
- News
Gutting this Dodd-Frank rule will hurt America's small businesses
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets
inclined to make the type of small business loans—just $5,000 for working capital or $20,000 for machinery—that can help grow developing economies. In its first six years, Entrepreneurial Finance Lab... View Details
- 23 Apr 2020
- News
‘Staying Nimble’: How Small Businesses Can, and Do, Shift Gears
- 14 Dec 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation
- 31 Jan 2025
- News
New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses
When the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) launched its Small Business Partnership Initiative (SBPI) in 2020, its goal was to simply help small View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 2016
- Working Paper
The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation
By: Karen Gordon Mills and Brayden McCarthy
Small businesses were among the hardest hit in the Great Recession, accounting for more than 60% of the total jobs lost. The economic crisis was one focused on the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America’s small businesses,... View Details
Mills, Karen Gordon, and Brayden McCarthy. "The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-042, November 2016.
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
counselor at a children's center confirmed her interest in family care but also made her realize that she preferred to approach the field "from a business angle." In 1988, she left Leo Burnett to follow her heart. View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
The art of business today seems to be the ability to influence resources your company doesn't own—resources such as the production scheduling of manufacturing partners, the packaging requirements of distribution partners, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- Research Summary
The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation
By: Karen Mills
Small businesses were among the hardest hit in the Great Recession, accounting for more than 60% of the total jobs lost. The economic crisis was one focused on the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America’s small businesses,... View Details
- August 2025
- Article
Revenue Collapses and the Consumption of Small Business Owners in the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: Olivia S. Kim, Jonathan A. Parker and Antoinette Schoar
Using financial account data linking small businesses to their owner households, we examine how business owners’ consumption responded to changes in business revenues during the COVID-19 crisis. In the first two months following the National Emergency, business... View Details
Kim, Olivia S., Jonathan A. Parker, and Antoinette Schoar. "Revenue Collapses and the Consumption of Small Business Owners in the COVID-19 Pandemic." Art. 104079. Journal of Financial Economics 170 (August 2025).
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
A few years ago, H. Kent Bowen, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration, undertook a study of smaller companies (firms in the $5 million to $50 million range) in order to develop cases and teaching materials for the... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- News
'Fintech' fast-cash loans are like 'wild west' for small businesses
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Buy Big, Sell Small
If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion... View Details
- June 1985 (Revised May 1986)
- Case
First Federal Corp.: Small Business Market (B), Software Case
Vitale, Michael R. "First Federal Corp.: Small Business Market (B), Software Case." Harvard Business School Case 185-106, June 1985. (Revised May 1986.)