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HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company

Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. (2017)

Harvard Business Review Press, HBR product #10090, 320 pages, publication date February 7, 2017. ISBN 9781633692503 (as embedded in the retailer link on the HBR store page); Open Library also records ISBN 9781633695597 (hardcover, Feb 07, 2017) and 9781633692510 (2017)

Practitioner how-to book by the two HBS professors who teach the school's small-firm acquisition courses. The publisher abstract lists its scope: deciding whether the path fits, raising capital, finding and evaluating prospects, why a "dull" business may be the best investment, negotiating with the seller, and avoiding deals that fall through. The abstract describes no dataset; the book text itself was not read this session, so no statistic should be cited to it from this file. The three ISBNs come from two different records and the format attached to each was not confirmed on a publisher page.

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Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. (2017). HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company. Harvard Business Review Press, HBR product #10090, 320 pages, publication date February 7, 2017. ISBN 9781633692503 (as embedded in the retailer link on the HBR store page); Open Library also records ISBN 9781633695597 (hardcover, Feb 07, 2017) and 9781633692510 (2017).

https://store.hbr.org/product/hbr-guide-to-buying-a-small-business/10090

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