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A January 30, 2012 article by Financial Times on the subject quotes Rita McGrath: “Innovation needs to be treated as material and systematic, not an on-again-off-again process,” says Columbia Business School’s Ms McGrath. The vested interests inside corporations arrayed against disruptive change can be powerful. To read the entire article, click here.

• Posted: Thursday, February 02, 2012

MSNBC interviewed Rita McGrath about the Kodak Eastman Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing: "It’s really up in the air at the moment," said Rita McGrath, a professor of management at Columbia Business School and an expert in company growth and innovation. "There was this last ditch, hail Mary effort to sell the patents to generate enough cash to keep the place from cratering. Now that that’s happened, it’s an opportunity for a fresh look. If a new leader comes in who can do something really remarkable with the technology they have, then the employees might have a new place to go to." For the entire article, click here.

• Posted: Thursday, January 19, 2012

CIO Insight named Rita McGrath as one of seven most disruptive thinkers of all time, acknowledging her co-introduction (with Professor Ian MacMillan) of the concept of "discovery-driven planning," which encourages testing critical assumptions and adjusting plans based upon what is learned. To read the entire article, click here.

• Posted: Thursday, January 19, 2012

The India Times writes..."In an article titled How the Growth Outliers Do It in HBR's latest issue, its author Rita Gunther McGrath searched for listed companies that have grown by at least 5% each year over a 10-year period ending 2009. The results showed that only 10 companies - three from US, two each from India and Spain, and one each from Japan, China and Slovenia - grew their net profit by at least 5% during the 10-year period. And only five grew both revenues and net profit every year." To read the entire article, click here.

The Indian Express writes..."According to research conducted by Rita Gunther McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, published in the Harvard Business Review (HBR), only 10 companies out of 2,347 with market capitalisations of over $1 billion, grew their net income by 5 per cent in all 10 years and only five grew both revenues and net income every year." To read the entire article, click here.

• Posted: Thursday, January 12, 2012

View an interview with Rita McGrath, Herminia Ibarra, Linda Hill and Vijay Govindarajan during the Thinkers50 Summit, when they joined Studio Talk TV to discuss how their ideas are impacting the business world. Click to view here.

• Posted: Thursday, December 01, 2011