Tony Palamone, SBDC directorTony Palamone, Small Business Development Center director, recently received a certificate of completion for the Master Business Course in Scaling Up, from the Growth Institute.This course focuses on scaling businesses from moderate sales levels to high growth sales levels.

The tools acquired will help the SBDC advise businesses on navigating from beyond the start-up stage to becoming a larger company with staying power. The tools and tactics taught in this course will strengthen the SBDC's ability to help companies address the principal barriers to growth: creating a scalable infrastructure; establishing an effective marketing function; and developing the leadership capabilities of the management team.

The SBDC is part of the Management Services Group in the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology