ADMN 882 (04) - Managing Growth and Innovation

This course deals with central concepts and applications at the intersection of technological innovation, organizational growth, and corporate entrepreneurship or intrapreneurship. Building an organization to achieve high growth and successfully and repeatedly bring innovations to market is a daunting managerial challenge. The first part of the course examines why it is so challenging to maintain sustained growth in disruptive environments. In the second part, the course takes a look at technological innovation as a lever that can help firms achieve sustained growth, by providing a number of applied tools, frameworks, and practices mangers can use to manage growth and innovation in their organizational contexts.