Featuring Gary Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Complimentary HBR Webinar
Wednesday, February 28, 12:00 pm EST
Growth—in terms of both revenues and profits—is the common yardstick used to measure the competitive health of organizations and the quality and compensation of its management.
However, while sustained profitable growth is a universal aspiration, it is an elusive goal for many companies.
Based on new research, HBS Professor Gary Pisano has found that while the usual explanations for growth challenges—external market and technological forces such as disruptive innovation—can be important, many companies’ growth problems are self-inflicted.
Sustaining profitable growth requires getting the delicate balance right between the pursuit of market opportunities (demand) and the creation of capabilities and capacity needed to exploit those opportunities (supply).
In this live, interactive HBR webinar, Pisano shared his research and discussed:
- Why so many companies struggle to achieve sustained profitable growth
- How companies can manage the balance between pursuing marketing opportunities and creating capabilities to exploit those opportunities
- The need for an explicit growth strategy that encompasses the target rate of growth (how fast to grow), the direction of growth (where to grow), and the method of growth (how to acquire the financial, human, and organizational resources to grow).