Exercise, which takes students through five stages of growth in business start-medical device industry ... 1) base, 2) growth, 3) click on the profitability, 4) the reorientation process, and 5) the absorption .. new leadership. At each stage, students must confront the tension in the balance of profits, growth and management.
Difficulties encountered in the business of trying to guide the development and use of formal management systems in order to achieve profit and production goals. "Hide
by Robert L. Simons Source: Harvard Business School 3 pages. Publication Date: May 27, 2008. Prod. #: 108092-PDF-ENG