GROWING AN
ENTREPRENEURIAL BUSINESS:
Concepts and Cases
Available in January 2011
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Growing an Entrepreneurial
Business
Concepts & Cases
Edward D. Hess
416 pp.
4 figures.
ISBN: 9780804771412
Cloth $75
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Growing an Entrepreneurial Business: Concepts and Cases
is a textbook designed for courses that focus on managing small
to medium sized enterprises. It focuses on the major management
challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide
to grow and scale their businesses.
The book is divided into two parts—text and cases—to
provide professors with maximum flexibility in organizing their
courses. The thirty-five cases can be used in conjunction with
the text, or independently. Twelve cases are written as narratives
with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular
business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written
around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance,
marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational
design, business model, and growth. Discussion questions are provided
for each case.
The text portion of the book discusses key issues derived from
the author's research and consulting, and is meant to complement
the case method of teaching, raising issues for conversation.
In addition to the real-world knowledge that students will derive
from the cases, readers will take away research-based templates
and models that they can use in developing or consulting with
small businesses.
Edward D. Hess is a Professor of Business Administration and
Batten Executive-in-Residence at the Darden Graduate School of
Business. He is the author of eight books, 40 practitioner articles,
and over 40 Darden cases.
REVIEWS:
"Based on decades of research, consulting and teaching experience,
Professor Ed Hess presents an extraordinary textbook on entrepreneurial
growth. Rejecting the traditional notions of growth for growth's
sake, Professor Hess presents a more nuanced view by placing value
creation at the center of the growth imperative. Based on painstaking
research, this book is an inspiring and practical blueprint for
leading and managing growth."
—Sankaran Venkataraman, MasterCard Professor of Business
Administration, Darden Graduate School of Business, University
of Virginia
"Ed Hess has emerged in recent years as a remarkably prolific
author on the topic of organic growth. Growing an Entrepreneurial
Business is another example of Ed's depth of understanding of
the challenges and opportunities faced by entrepreneurial ventures
as they grow and develop. His findings will no doubt prove valuable
to students whose future careers lie in an entrepreneurial space,
as well as to entrepreneurs as they guide their organizations
to success."
—Robert K. Kazanjian, Professor of Organization &
Management, Goizueta Business School, Emory University
"This book is a must read for managers of small and medium
sized companies interested in growing their firms. Using examples
from case studies as well as his own wisdom and analysis, Hess
tackles the tricky question of how to scale an organization in
a thoughtful, insightful, and systematic manner."
—William Forster, Assistant Professor, Lehigh University
"Growing an Entrepreneurial Business: Concepts and Cases,
offers a treasury of solid empirical research, described in a
most captivating way. This resource also offers insights that
will help any practitioner move ahead and reach the full potential
and satisfaction from growing an entrepreneurial venture. A must-read!"
—George Hess, Management Professor, Loyola Marymount
University
"There are several books that try to cover entrepreneurship
from soup to nuts—everything you could possibly want to know
about starting a company. This book is fairly unique in its focus
on growing an extant entrepreneurial business."
—Philip Anderson, Professor of Entrepreneurship, INSEAD
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