Here is a selected list of articles over the years related to the search for sustainable growth and lessons learned from two decades of research on the topic The articles in HBR can all be found and purchased at the Harvard Business Review website, others can be found at the links provided.
Selected Harvard Business Review Articles
Desperately Seeking Growth: The Virtues of Tending to Your Core, Chris Zook Harvard Management Update, 2001
Growth Outside the Core, Chris Zook and James Allen, Harvard Business Review, December 2003
Finding Your Next Core Business, Chris Zook, Harvard Business Review, April 2007
The Great Repeatable Model, Chris Zook and James Allen, Harvard Business Review, November 2011
The New Rules for Growing Outside Your Core Business, Harvard Business Review, May 4, 2015
Reigniting Growth: How to Reverse a Sudden Slowdown, Chris Zook and James Allen, Harvard Business Review, March 2016
Maintaining Your Focus at the Front Lines as Your Company Grows, Chris Zook, September 1, 2016
How Boards Can Assess the Health of their Companies, Chris Zook, Harvard Business Review, November 2, 2016
When Large Companies are Better at Entrepreneurship than Startups, Chris Zook, Harvard Business Review, December 27, 2016
Selected Writings Published by Bain & Company
Many articles (Bain Briefs) and research reports from our work on growth have been self-published by Bain & Company:
Founder’s Mentality: The Path to Scale Insurgency, Chris Zook, James Allen, Dunigan O’Keefe, May 2013
The Engine 2 Imperative: New Business Innovation and Profitable Growth under Turbulence, Chris Zook, James Allen, and Dunigan O’Keefe, December 2020
Note: The Engine 2 work is the most recent direct extension of our growth work and The Founder’s Mentality as it pertains to large companies concerned with creating new businesses at scale to replace or protect their core.
Here are two links to access the Bain briefs and research on the host site Bain.com
