TY - BOOK AU - Harvard Business Review TI - Small business series : reprints from Harvard business review U1 - 650.1 PY - 1978/// CY - New York PB - Harvard College KW - Small business KW - Management N1 - pt. 1. How not to sell your company / Robert L. Chambers -- R & D is more efficient in small companies / Arnold C. Cooper -- The case of the lonesome loan / Charles B. Coates -- Whither small business? / Paul Donham -- Profit-planning accounting for small firms / John Dearden -- The family business / Robert G. Donnelley -- Small companies can pioneer new products / Arnold C. Cooper -- Growing strength in small retailing / Alton F. Doody & William H. Woods -- Are SBICs doing theri job? / Samuel L. Hayes and Donald H. Woods -- Can small businesses use consultants? / Harvey C. Krentzman & John N. Samaras --Practical planning for small business / Roger A. Golde -- Minority owners can avoid sqeeze-outs / F. Hodge O'Neal -- Advice for small company presidents / Louis E. Newman -- Equity financing for the small firm / Robert A. Weaver, Jr. -- Management assistance for small business / L.T. White -- Misunderstanding the retailer / Warren J. Wittreich. pt. 2. The birth of a black business / Jeffrey A. Berman -- The R & D entrepreneur : profile of success / Harry Schrage -- Conflicts that plague family businesses / Harry Levinson -- Computerized cost system in a small plant / John P. Malloy -- Cost control for the professional service firm / Howard E. McDonald & T.L. Stromberger -- Public offerings for smaller companies / Gerald A. Sears -- Case of the alcoholic absentee / James W. Kelley -- Bigness versus profitability / Fred R. Wittnebert -- How to face being taken over / John L. Handy -- Meeting the competition of giants (re small business) / Alfred Gross -- Case of the embattled banker / Thomas R. Piper -- Formulating strategy in smaller companies / Frank F. Gilmore -- Small companies can pioneer new products / Arnold C. Cooper -- Case of the president's predicament / John B. Bennett -- A small company enters the European market / James K. Sweeney -- Small business eyes the four-day workweek / Kenneth E. Wheeler ER -