Smart Growth

Form and Consequences
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-15050-7
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 486 g

Reihe: Columbia Business School Publishing

Wall Street believes that all public companies should grow smoothly and continuously, as evidenced by ever-increasing quarterly earnings, and that all companies either "grow or die." Introducing a research-based growth model called "Smart Growth," Edward D. Hess challenges this ethos and its dangerous mentality, which often deters real growth and pressures businesses to create, manufacture, and purchase noncore earnings just to appease Wall Street.

Smart Growth accounts for the complexity of growth from the perspective of organization, process, change, leadership, cognition, risk management, employee engagement, and human dynamics. Authentic growth is much more than a strategy or a desired result. It is a process characterized by complex change, entrepreneurial action, experimental learning, and the management of risk. Hess draws on extensive public and private company research, incorporating case studies of Best Buy, Sysco, UPS, Costco, Starbucks, McDonalds, Coca Cola, Room & Board, Home Depot, Tiffany & Company, P&G, and Jet Blue. With conceptual innovations such as an Authentic Earnings and Growth System framework, a seven-step growth funnel pipeline, a Growth Decision Template, and a Growth Risks Audit, Hess provides a blueprint for an enduring business that strives to be better, rather than simply bigger.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szold, Terry S

Carbonell, Armando

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Anlagen & Wertpapiere
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Kostenmanagement, Budgetierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Company by Managing the Risks of Growth1. Defining the Growth Mental Model2. Smooth and Continuous Company Growth: The Exception Not the Rule3. Economics: Theories of Growth4. Organizational Design and Strategy: Theories of Growth5. Biology: Theories of Growth6. Smart Growth: Authentic Growth7. Managing the Risks of Growth: Public Companies8. Managing the Risks of Growth: Private Companies9. It Is Time for Smart GrowthAppendixBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Edward D. Hess is professor of business administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence at The Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. He founded both the Center for Entrepreneurship and Corporate Growth and the Values-Based Leadership Institute at Goizueta Business School at Emory University.