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Case
| HBS Case Collection
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1992
(Revised from original version)
Howard Head and Prince Manufacturing, Inc.
by
Howard H. Stevenson
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Abstract
Deals with the issue of an entrepreneur in a very successful company deciding whether to stay through a period of great growth or to sell. What are the entrepreneur's responsibilities to the organization, to his employees, to the public? As subtopics, the issues of marketing versus having a strong product that sells itself, patents and the legal issues involved, manufacturing problems, and a rising business in a sharply declining market.
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation;
Decisions;
Entrepreneurship;
Patents;
Law;
Markets;
Production;
Sales;