Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth (Columbia Business School Publishing): Form and Consequences - Hardcover

Szold, Terry S.; Carbonell, Armando

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ISBN 10: 0231150504 ISBN 13: 9780231150507

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2010

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This book will challenge your basic assumptions about business and growth. It needs to be read and talked about in both companies and business schools.--R. Edward Freeman, Darden Business School, and coauthor of Managing for Stakeholders: Survival, Reputation, and Success

Smart Growth will bend your mind, challenge your assumptions, and set you on a new growth trajectory. If you want to understand how following advice from Wall Street can doom you to destruction, read this book.--Richard D'Aveni, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and author of Hypercompetition and Beating the Commodity Trap: How to Maximize Your Competitive Position and Increase Your Pricing Power

Warning against the creeping corruption of 'managed earnings' and 'making the numbers, ' Edward D. Hess wisely urges business manager-leaders to keep their focus on the real growth of getting better, not bigger, and creating true value, not short-term earnings per share.--Charles Ellis, author of Winning the Loser's Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing

In this masterful work, Edward D. Hess shows us how companies can grow in a healthy and organic manner, one that is sustainable and beneficial for all stakeholders, including society as a whole.--Raj Sisodia, Bentley University, and coauthor of Firms of Endearment: How World Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose

Hess offers the reader a thoughtful critique of the assumptions underlying the prevailing logic for the growth imperative that is so widely accepted.--Robert K. Kazanjian, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, and coeditor of The Search for Organic Growth

Hess provides insight as well as prescriptions for how to lead effectively and how to grow intelligently.--Kim Cameron, Ross School of Business and the School of Education, University of Michigan, and author of Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary Performance

Hess's insight and research provide a navigational path that illuminates key success factors and models that drive exponential growth.--Jeffrey S. Shuman, Harris Corporation

Hess takes dead aim at one of the sacred shibboleths of business--the notion that companies must 'grow or die'--and scores a bull's-eye. He makes a devastating case and demonstrates how destructive the blind pursuit of growth can be, and has been, to businesses of all types, especially publicly-owned ones. Along the way, Hess maps an alternative approach to managing business growth that focuses on the long-term health of the enterprise. It's a powerful argument and one that should be taken to heart by corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and policymakers alike.--Bo Burlingham, editor-at-large of Inc. magazine and author of Small Giants: Companies That Choose To Be Great Instead of Big

Smart Growth is a provocative and useful evidence-based approach to understanding the principles of corporate growth.--Mary Ann Glynn, Boston College

A new and radical contribution to business thought... Hess provides a blueprint for building an enduring business that strives to be better, rather than simply bigger.--Dominique James "San Francisco Book Review "

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0231150504
• ISBN 13: 9780231150507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224