
Getting to Scale : Growing Your Business Without Selling Out.
Title:
Getting to Scale : Growing Your Business Without Selling Out.
Author:
Bamburg, Jill.
ISBN:
9781605090153
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (163 pages)
Contents:
TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: THERE IS ANOTHER WAY -- Conventional Economies of Scale -- Small Is Beautiful -- Appropriate Scale -- About This Book -- Companies and Interviews -- CHAPTER ONE: MISSION COMES FIRST -- Small Potatoes Urban Delivery Inc. (SPUD) -- CHAPTER TWO: ANY BUSINESS CAN DO IT -- Village Real Estate Services -- Novex Couriers -- New Belgium Brewing Company -- Tweezerman International -- Wild Planet Toys Inc. -- CHAPTER THREE: ORGANIC IS THE WAY TO GROW -- Organic Valley Family of Farms -- Birkenstock USA -- Seventh Generation Inc. -- CHAPTER FOUR: FINANCE YOUR INDEPENDENCE -- CHAPTER FIVE: BUILD YOUR VALUES INTO THE BRAND -- Country Natural Beef -- Eileen Fisher Inc. -- Give Something Back Business Products -- CHAPTER SIX: MATCH MANUFACTURING TO MISSION -- American Apparel Inc. -- GreenDisk -- New Leaf Paper -- CHAPTER SEVEN: MORPH EARLY AND OFTEN -- ScriptSave -- The Green Institute -- Flexcar -- CHAPTER EIGHT: FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION -- Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. -- Gardener's Supply Company -- Great Harvest Bread Company -- Equal Exchange Inc. -- New Community Corporation -- KickStart -- CHAPTER NINE: THE SOFT STUFF IS THE HARDEST -- Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. -- Equal Exchange Inc. -- Eileen Fisher Inc. -- Seventh Generation Inc. -- Frontier Natural Products Co-op: A Cautionary Tale -- CHAPTER TEN: GETTING TO SCALE: IS IT RIGHT FOR YOU? -- Defining Success -- Succeeding at the Mission -- Succeeding at the Business -- NOTES -- ADDITIONAL RESOURCES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- ABOUT BERRETT-KOEHLER PUBLISHERS -- BE CONNECTED.
Abstract:
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 Real Estate--her book explodes the myths of scale from both ends of the spectrum. She debunks both the limiting "small is beautiful" approach as well as the "you have to sell out to grow" mandate.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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