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The 4 Types of Small Businesses, and Why Each One Matters

Harvard Business Review

Almost 23 million are sole proprietorships, covering a wide range of sectors, from consultants and IT specialists to painters and roofers. The next-largest segment of small businesses is comprised of what I call Main Street entrepreneurs. They are intended to represent different categories of firms of interest to policy makers.).

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How Companies Can Help Rebuild America’s Common Resources

Harvard Business Review

But these trends also had more negative consequences, as Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter have argued in their work as co-chairs of Harvard Business School’s U.S. The ensuing waves of globalization and technological progress brought great benefits to American firms and consumers. Competitiveness Project.