STR3500 Scaling Strategy: Mastering the Four Stages from Idea to $10 Billion
4 Advanced Management Credits
How do the most successful founders transform their idea into a large, fast-growing company? Scaling Strategy answers this question by investigating three topics:
- What are the stages through which an organization must evolve to turn a new business idea into a fast-growing public company?
- How can leaders capture the opportunities and overcome the challenges at each of these stages?
- How can CEOs assess their ability to lead their organization through the next stage of scaling?
Tapping Professor Cohan's experience running his own growth strategy consulting firm, investing in startups which produced billions in gains, and writing columns for Forbes and Inc., Scaling Strategy explores these questions through class discussions, in-class group analysis of real-life scaling cases, and outside speakers with scaling expertise. In the final seven weeks of the course, student teams work with founders to develop scaling strategies for their startups.
Past students have found the course valuable. Here is a comment from a student in the Fall 2024 STR 3500 session: "I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for a fantastic semester of learning. The knowledge and skills I’ve gained through this class, especially during the Luminoso project, have been instrumental in preparing me for my upcoming role at Grant Thornton."
For more information, please watch this video: https://babson.instructuremedia.com/embed/d2e3ddbb-d69a-4091-b285-1fe25c344a76
Prerequisite: (FME 1000 and FME 1001) OR ( EPS 1000 and MOB 1010)