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Leading Strategic Growth and Change

Creating Strategy Tokyo

On February 21, 2012, Professor Rita McGrath will participate in a symposium sponsored by the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia Business School. It is entitled, How Video Games are Transforming Society: Square Enix's Vision Mr. Yoichi Wada, President and Representative Director from SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. will be the featured speaker.

Rita McGrath will be a keynote speaker at the April 25-28 digitalNow Conference at the Disney Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Florida. digitalNow is an annual conference, which brings together CEOs and volunteer leaders from some of the most influential professional, non-profit, and trade associations in America. Rita McGrath will address the conference on Learning to Live with Complexity. To read more about the conference and register, please click here.

Event Dates: December 1, 2011

Event Location: Jubilee Campus, Nottingham

In today's hyperconnected business world, much of what we need to make sense of is unpredictable and indefinable. Rita McGrath,one of the world's leading experts on strategy in highly uncertain and volatile environments, describes new approaches to forecasting the future, mitigating risks, and making smart trade-offs that will allow business leaders to approach decision-making with more confidence and increase their chances of success.

Rita consults regularly with leading global companies and has spoken at the world Economic forum in Davos and the Microsoft CEO Summit. She has co-authored six Harvard Business Review articles, and is a regular contributor to Nottingham University Business School executive development programmes.

Join us at this Executive Breakfast Briefing
Thursday 1st of December 2011
07:45 for 08:00 start, 10:00 close

Rita McGrath is pleased to be a keynote speaker at the Business of Design Conference for Interior Designers on September 2, 2011. To learn more, click here.

Event Dates: June 6, 2011 to June 10, 2011

Event Location: Right on the Columbia Campus in the main Business School Building, Uris Hall.

Leading Strategic Growth and Change is an executive education program that helps senior executives drive profitable organic growth and cultural change so that their organizations succeed by entering attractive new markets, innovating more effectively and staying ahead of the competition. The course web site is here.

Faculty Director Rita Gunther McGrath, is an associate professor of management and author of three books: Discovery Driven Growth, MarketBusters and The Entrepreneurial Mindset. The program's course content is derived from research underlying these books and her many other research projects.

Before the program begins, participants write and submit a summary of a growth or change problem that they are currently facing or that they foresee in their organizations. Participants are also provided a number of cases, readings, and study questions before the program.
Through general discussions, work in small groups and peer coaching, the program assists participants in thoroughly examining their personal business case and then developing a strategy for going forward.

Event Dates: February 15, 2011 2pm

An interactive webinar featuring Rita McGrath and Paul Ingram on the subject of business model innovation. It will last about 30 minutes.

Event Dates: March 4, 2011

Event Location: Dublin, Ireland.

Rita will be a keynote speaker and moderator at this high profile event celebrating the best managed Irish businesses.

Click here to watch a video highlighting the event.

Moving Ahead: Today's Lessons for Leading Tomorrow is the theme of the 2011 Georgia Tech Leadership Forum. Rita McGrath will be delivering a keynote on March 29, 2011, as a part of the Forum series. For more information about the Forum, to download the program, and to register, click here.

Rita McGrath will speak to the Princeton Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, October 07, 2010, 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM at Princeton Marriott Hotel and Conference Center at Forrestal, 100 College Road E., Plainsboro.

The topic is: How to Grow Your Company Safely in Uncertain Times.

Link to register here.