At the Total Executive blog, the author cites the 2006 Sloan Management Review article Extracting Value from Corporate Venturing authored by Rita Gunther McGrath, Thomas Keil and Taina Tukiainen: "Executives wax and wane in their enthusiasm for launching new ventures outside an organization's core business. In their more enthusiastic moments, leaders often see corporate venturing initiatives as sources of organic growth and vitally important engines of renewal. However, in their more disenchanted periods executives may see new ventures as high-risk, foolhardy distractions from effectively running the core business. What's more, such pessimism isn't wrong. Corporate ventures are risky and they usually do not produce hoped-for results." To read the entire blog, click here.
- Posted: Tuesday, February 02, 2010
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January 30, 2012:
Complementary webinar tomorrow (January 31) “How the Growth Outliers Do It”
Just back from Davos! Tomorrow, Columbia Executive Education will be hosting a complementary webinar on an article that is in this months' Harvard Business Review …
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December 12, 2011:
Center on Japanese Economy and Business Symposium with Square Enix, February 21, 2012
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 …
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Rita, I was privileged to be in attendance in Florida to hear your comments on Intelligent Failures. Your style is engaging and the material was presented …
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