Background Note | HBS Case Collection | 2006 (Revised from original 2004 version)

Achieving Profitable Growth and Market Value

by James L. Heskett and Richard G. Hamermesh
 

Abstract

Provides an overview of how a new venture needs to change as it passes from the initial start-up to the growth phase. Explores how a venture's leadership, strategy, and execution need to evolve to deal with rapid growth.

Keywords: Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Change Management;

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Citation:

Heskett, James L., and Richard G. Hamermesh. "Achieving Profitable Growth and Market Value." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-157, May 2006. (Revised from original April 2004 version.)

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  1. Background Note | HBS Case Collection | 2005 (Revised from original 2005 version)

    A Note on Managing the Growing Venture

    Richard G. Hamermesh, James L. Heskett and Michael J. Roberts

    Focuses on the strategic and organizational challenges that confront growing enterprises and the entrepreneurs who lead them. Provides an overview of how a new venture needs to change as it passes from the initial start-up to the growth phase. Explores how a venture's leadership, strategy, and execution need to evolve to deal with rapid growth. A rewritten version of an earlier note.

    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Leading Change;

    Citation:

    Hamermesh, Richard G., James L. Heskett, and Michael J. Roberts. "A Note on Managing the Growing Venture." Harvard Business School Background Note 805-092, August 2005. (Revised from original January 2005 version.)
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James L. Heskett
UPS Foundation Professor of Business Logistics, Emeritus

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Richard G. Hamermesh
MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice
Entrepreneurial Management

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