Getting to Scale: Growing Your Business Without Selling Out by Jill Bamburg - ISBN: 9781576754160
Paperback
Renowned academic and businesswoman Jill Bamburg shows how mission-driven entrepreneurs can preserve the values of their company while maintaining their growth and competitiveness in the marketplace. Through lessons and stories readers learn how to build growth businesses that can be successful and …

Getting to Scale: Growing Your Business Without Selling Out

Growing Your Business Without Selling Out

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  • Paperback

    192 pages

  • Release Date

    1 January 2018

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Summary

Ben & Jerry’s. Stonyfield Farm. The Body Shop. Tom’s of Maine. All leaders in the socially responsible business movement-and all eventually sold to mega-corporations. Do values-driven businesses have to choose between staying small, selling off, or selling out?Jill Bamburg says no. Based on intensive interviews with more than thirty growth-oriented, mission-driven entrepreneurs-including American Apparel, Give Something Back, Wild Planet Toys, Organic Valley Family of Farms, and Village R…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781576754160
ISBN-10:1576754162
Author:Jill Bamburg
Publisher:Berrett-Koehler
Imprint:Berrett-Koehler
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:1 January 2018
Weight:231g
Dimensions:85mm x 56mm x 6mm
Series:Berrett-koehler
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“A must-read for any socially and environmentally responsible business or eco-preneur, giving us all hope that we can indeed conduct business that serves people and the planet without selling out, but rather while growing stronger. I am recommending it to all our member businesses.”
—Denise Hamler, Director of Co-op America Business Network

“Accessible and clear-eyed, Getting to Scale offers a wealth of practical experience about the challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities for anyone seeking to build a thriving socially-responsible business.”
—David Bornstein, author of How to Change the World

Getting to Scale manages to provoke and inspire by demonstrating that we truly can change the world by changing the way we do business.”
—Kirsten L. Gagnaire, Principal, Social Enterprise Group, LLC

“Inspiring. Practical. It is a welcome addition as a data-based, hands-on manual for those interested in re-imagining the corporation and growing it beyond start-up.”
—Adrea Larson, Associate Professor, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia

About The Author

Jill Bamburg

Jill Bamburg is the dean of the MBA program at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI; , a new institution offering an MBA, certificate programs, and short courses with a focus on sustainable business. She is a founding faculty member of BGI, has spearheaded the development of its unique curriculum, and has lived the lessons of getting to scale as the organization has grown from 10 students to more than 100 in four years. Her academic experience also includes seven years of teaching marketing, strategy, and general management to midcareer managers in the Graduate Management Program at Antioch University/Seattle.

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