Wonders why, in an atmosphere of intense competition, some companies achieve sustained high growth in profits and revenues. Highlights the example of Formule 1, a chain of budget hotels in France, launched in 1985, which beat off the no‐star and one‐star hotels, costing between 60 and 90...

Argues that, of three different growth strategies revealed in a recent study, only one leads to substantial growth and specifies these three as: radical growth — most admired by the business press; rational growth — sounder than radical growth; robust growth — companies which follow this...

Increasing use of nitrogen fertilizer in U.S. agriculture has led to nitrate contamination of water resources. The main objective of the study is to determine if the current use of nitrogen exceeds the profit-maximizing level, since reducing such discrepancy, if any, could raise farmers'...