Think Big, Buy Small
Hosted by Rick and Royce · Harvard Business School
4.9from 97 ratings
- 49
- Episodes
- 40
- Transcribed
- 97
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Think Big, Buy Small
Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own startup seem too risky? There's another compelling path open to you: acquiring a small business and running it as CEO. Co-hosted by Harvard Business School Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff, the show is an extension of their courses on small firms, including Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition, which has been taken by thousands of MBA students, and their highly-regarded book, HBR Guide To Buying A Small Business, which has sold more than 65,000 copies. In this series, Rick and Royce guide listeners through the different milestones of the journey to acquiring an enduringly profitable small business, sharing insights on how to evaluate prospects, raise capital, and ultimately determine if this path is right for you.
- Publisher
- Harvard Business School
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 Jun 2024
- Latest episode
- 2 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
40 of 49 episodes have a transcript.
2 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Building an HVAC Roll-Up in France
26 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Navigating the Legal Process of Buying a Small Business
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
When Search Doesn’t End in an Acquisition
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Building an HVAC Roll-Up in France
Published 2 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The second thing is, especially since COVID, there's some kind of loneliness of the general manager of a small side business because he has, in most cases, no one to share his struggles with. And so when we come in and we're like, look, you'll be able to start with us, but also with peers is a big argument. […]
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- Louis-Clair Francois-Poncet
- Jared Shwartz
- Kristin Wihera
- Aaron Wyatt
- Bruce Isaacson
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 47 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 50 ratings
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 92
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