Publications

December 2003
Article

Seven Deadly Sins: Avoid These Pitfalls to Growth

By: William W. George

Keywords: Growth and Development

December 2020
Teaching Plan

Scaling Well by Doing Good: Motivating Talent at b.good

By: Francesca Gino, Gary P. Pisano and Alexander Rohe

8 Aug 1990 - 12 Aug 1990
Conference Presentation

Multidimensional Scaling of DSM-III Personality Disorders in Two Populations

By: W. B. Simpson, M. J. Lyons, L. Young and M. T. Tsuang

Keywords: Health; Health Disorders; Demographics

winter 1973
Article

Organizational Issues in the Stages of EDP Growth

By: R. L. Nolan and Cyrus F. Gibson

Keywords: Growth and Development

June 2015
Case

B Lab: Can it Scale Business as a Force for Good?

By: Christopher Marquis and Matthew Lee

To achieve its goal of redefining success in business, B Lab recognizes it needs to scale. Its strategy to do so requires B Lab to depend heavily on new partners, venture into new markets, influence new audiences, and to strike a balance between standards and... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Expansion; Social Entrepreneurship

2010
Chapter

Enamored with Scale: Scaling with Limited Impact in the Microfinance Industry

By: S. M. Datar, M. J. Epstein and K. Yuthas

Keywords: Microfinance; Banking Industry

20 Sep 2010
News

Limits of Productivity Growth Bode Well for Jobs

25 Feb 2025
Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation

is your current role and what steps and tactics did you use to get hired in your current position? During EC year, I focused my career search on impact investing roles. I was particularly interested in... View Details

17 May 2011
News

Sustainable growth is the new incarnation of capitalism

16 Jun 2015
News

Huge growth in China’s money funds poses risk

October 2013 (Revised February 2019)
Case

Chobani: Growing a Live and Active Culture (Abridged)

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Matthew Preble

Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO of the Greek yogurt company Chobani, Inc., was reflecting on what explained his young company's meteoric rise. The company held over half of the U.S. Greek yogurt market and nearly 20% of the total yogurt market. The company's innovative approach to... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Culture; Growth Strategy; Growth Management; Yogurt; Innovation Strategy; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Growth and Development Strategy; Agribusiness; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Canada; Australia

2021
Article

Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: Measurement and Growth Issues in the Digital Era

By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt

The two components of the advertising industry—the creative sector that develops and produces messages, and the communications sector that transmits messages via various media—have each been greatly affected by advances in creative design and communications... View Details

Keywords: Industry Evolution; Advertising; Spending; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods; Media; Advertising Industry; United States

January 2025
Teaching Note

AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup

By: Frank Nagle and Susan Pinckney

In 2024, AI agent startup company AGENTS.inc faced multiple strategic decisions that could shape the company’s ability to grown into the future AI agent market leader. View Details

Keywords: Computer Industry; Europe; Germany

Spring 2014
Article

What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan

Organizations with social missions, such as nonprofits and social enterprises, are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Performance Evaluation

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April 1997 (Revised May 1997)
Case

Mercer Management Consulting's "Grow to Be Great" (A): The Growth Initiative

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Carin-Isabel Knoop

In late 1994, James Down, member of Mercer's Executive Committee, has to decide whether or not he should push ahead with the writing and publication of a book on growth--at a time when the more successful business publications focus on reengineering and cost cutting.... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Organizational Culture; Business Growth and Maturation; Knowledge Management; Product Development; Information Publishing; Books; Consulting Industry; Publishing Industry