College Summit, a nonprofit organization "committed the day when every student who can make it in college makes it to college," faced with an important strategic decision. After growing rapidly for more than 30% per year over the past few years, the founder and CEO JB Schramm, Chief Strategy Officer Mora Segal, and a team of College Summit, must now decide whether to drastically revise the theory of the organization changes. College Summit could continue to "get results and grow very quickly," or make a bold choice to re-interpret its strategy to focus on system-level changes. Although there are numerous alternative strategy carries risks for Schramm and Segal, an opportunity to help revise the objectives of secondary education can be too great to ignore.
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by Stacey Childress, Geoff Marietta Source: Harvard Business School 26 pages. Publication Date: January 28, 2009. Prod. #: 309088-PDF-ENG