
Getting to Scale: Growing Your Business Without Selling Out
Growing Your Business Without Selling Out
$27.76
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2018
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 |
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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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