Press Mentions

One of world’s top business strategists to speak at BBJ’s Filling the Gap

Podcast 747: Seeing Around Corners with Rita McGrath

This volatility expert wants to help you see around corners

Sink or swim: How to survive waves of change in a fast-paced industry

IAN MANN REVIEWS: How to spot turning points in your business before they happen

Rita McGrath Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Venture Capital is Changing, But is it for the Better?

How to Spot Seismic Shifts in Business Before They Happen

Transforming Sales to Beat the Market

Why retention still matters amid digital tech

5 Books on Leadership, Communication, Strangers, Focus and Business

The Keys to Managing Business Inflection Points

2019

October 19, 2019One of world’s top business strategists to speak at BBJ’s Filling the Gap - Birmingham Business Journal
October 14, 2019Podcast 747: Seeing Around Corners with Rita McGrath - Inside Personal Growth with Greg Voisen
October 9, 2019This volatility expert wants to help you see around corners - Fast Company
October 7, 2019Sink or swim: How to survive waves of change in a fast-paced industry - Big Think
October 5, 2019IAN MANN REVIEWS: How to spot turning points in your business before they happen - Fin24
October 4, 2019Rita McGrath Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio - Trend Following
October 4, 2019Venture Capital is Changing, But is it for the Better? - Yahoo Finance
October 3, 2019How to Spot Seismic Shifts in Business Before They Happen - ThinkAdvisor
October 2, 2019Transforming Sales to Beat the Market - The Economist
October 1, 2019Why retention still matters amid digital tech - HR Magazine
October 1, 20195 Books on Leadership, Communication, Strangers, Focus and Business - Thrive Global
September 27, 2019The Keys to Managing Business Inflection Points - Worth
September 23, 2019FT business books of the month: September edition - Financial Times
September 21, 2019Have We Seen The End Of Competitive Advantage? - Life Science Leader
September 19, 2019Thinking Innovation. Driving Growth - BrandKnew
September 19, 2019The Keys to Managing Business Inflection Points - Techonomy
September 18, 2019Eight Practices to Ensure You Are Never Netflixed - Thrive Global
September 12, 2019How to Start Seeing Around Corners, with Rita McGrath - Coaching for Leaders
September 12, 2019Episode 22: Rita McGrath Author — Seeing Around Corners - Agile Giants
September 10, 2019Banks must be ready to handle disruption - BusinessLine
September 5, 2019WeWork Valuation, Starbucks CEO, Cost of New Elements (Podcast) - Bloomberg Businessweek
September 4, 2019Rita McGrath: Inflection Points - Disrupt Yourself
September 4, 2019Rita McGrath: Inflection Spotting - Outside In
September 3, 2019Achieving Strategic Agility Involves More Than Seeing Around Corners - Forbes
August 29, 2019Arenas, not industries, are the new business battlegrounds - Dialogue
August 27, 2019Winning In The Transient Advantage Era - Business World
August 24, 2019Digital Leadership Series: Seeing Around Corners - Momenta
August 19, 2019We’ll have the world at our feet if we think like true innovators - The Times
August 19, 2019Are stock buybacks a corporate scam? - BBC Business Daily
August 2, 2019Top 100 Human Resources Influencers of 2019 - Engagedly
July 3, 2019Ketchup tries to keep up with changing tastes - Marketplace
June 29, 2019Could Warren Buffett be wrong? Kraft Heinz is Exhibit A for iconic Big Food brands at risk of losing global relevance - CNBC
June 25, 2019How to Compete in a World of Transient Advantage - Roland Berger
June 18, 2019What Bernie Sanders is asking on behalf of Walmart employees - MSNBC
June 15, 2019Innovation’s Changing Mindset: Where Are You? - Forbes
June 15, 2019What happens when a consumer giant like Edgewell buys a niche retailer like Harry’s? - Marketplace
May 21, 2019Bubble Bursts on Some Unicorns - Bloomberg Radio
May 18, 2019Attention, entrepreneurs: Don’t make these 5 mistakes in the pitch room - NBC News
May 7, 2019How to scale up the ICT value chain - LMD
April 30, 2019Financialisation and the Innovative Capability of Firms: Penrose’s Lessons Loom Large - SOAS Economics Podcast
April 22, 2019Business leaders are blinded by industry boundaries - Financial Times
April 19, 2019ARHT Media Beams A Live Hologram Of Strategy Expert Prof. Rita Gunther McGrath of Columbia University From NYC To HK For A Discussion On Harnessing The ‘Power Of Purpose’ - ARHT Media
April 15, 2019Rita McGrath on How to See Around Corners - Predictable Success
April 7, 2019Trust me: Building a culture of trust in an era of uncertainty - CNBC
April 1, 2019Creating Growth And Competitive Advantage In Consulting - Consulting Success
March 31, 2019Epic Fail - Instore
March 21, 20198 Leadership Lessons From Game of Thrones - Newsweek
March 20, 2019Leadership lessons from a guitar hero - Strategy + Business
March 13, 2019Strategy and innovation: how to thrive in tomorrow’s business world - Influential Executive Podcast
March 7, 2019Digital Transformation and the End of Competitive Advantage: How Can We Survive Disruptive Inflection Points in Business? - Fujitsu
February 26, 2019The case for banning stock buybacks - CNN Business
February 9, 2019Using culture to go beyond hierarchy - HRD Connect
February 9, 2019People are the last competitive advantage - HR Magazine
February 2, 2019Who Is Getting Rich Off You? - Big Think
January 27, 2019How to convert your setbacks into powerful building blocks for growth - Ladders

2018

December 10, 2018Hu-manity.co Announces Data-Focused Magna Carta as a Guide for Corporations to Be on the Right Side of History - Business Wire
November 29, 2018What happens when CEOs have too much power - CNN
October 30, 2018Hasbro’s Struggles Show Why Companies Need A Portfolio Of Business Models - Forbes
October 29, 2018The two questions companies should ask to stay relevant - Quartz
September 20, 2018Companies Go Carbon Neutral - Agenda Week
August 25, 2018Innovation Training Needs A Rethink - BusinessWorld
August 21, 2018Get more, and better, ideas from your finance team - Financial Management
August 14, 2018Tesla’s dramatic recent stock rise and fall shows how sceptical investors are of his go-private plans - Business Insider
August 13, 2018Redefining the entrepreneurial ethos for finance - Financial Management
August 8, 2018Nye forventninger til HR - HR Norge
July 18, 2018Rita Gunther McGrath Joins Hu-manity.co Advisory Board - CityBizList
July 12, 2018Higher education: Why have degrees around necks? - The Economic Times
July 11, 2018Disruptive Innovation Investment - Bloomberg
July 11, 2018(Webinar)Three Levels of Business Models - Engage Innovate
June 15, 2018(Webinar) Discovery Driven Growth: An Idea Whose Time Has Come - Columbia Business School
May 31, 2018Where Will the Ad versus Ad Blocker Arms Race End? - Scientific America
May 26, 2018The end of the strategy world as we know it? - Emerald Insight
May 22, 2018How to Be the No. 1 Reason People Want to Work for Your Company - Inc.
May 9, 2018A 40-Year Debate Over Corporate Strategy Gets Revived by Elon Musk and Warren Buffett - Harvard Business Review
May 2, 2018Keeping abreast of the ‘churn - Investors Chronicle
May 2, 2018An outside-in perspective can trigger growth - Financial Chronicle
April 19, 2018Three Levels of Business Models - Engage Innovate
April 10, 2018Innovation: Catching The Next Wave | Hangout Replay with Rita Gunther McGrath & Michael Sikorsky - Business of Software
April 6, 2018Does Wall Street buy your growth story? - Strategy & Leadership
April 5, 2018The 250 Most Influential Women Leaders - Rise Global
April 3, 2018How Universities Should Manage Innovation - Forbes
March 28, 2018How Small Startups Can Profit From Competitor’s Woes - Entreprenuer
March 16, 2018Clean energy: Tripping the power business - The Economic Times
March 13, 2018The Implications of Innovation for HR Strategies - HRD Leaders
March 9, 2018Creating a business culture for co-creation and innovation - Fujitsu I-CIO
March 9, 2018Big data, IoT or digital media can’t save IT cos but this five-point guide can - The Economic Times
March 5, 2018Democratization of geospatial technology - Geospatial World
March 3, 2018Focus on the overlooked feminine engine of growth - The Economic Times
February 26, 2018Enterprises Aren’t Taking Digital Disruption Lying Down, Study Show - Forbes
February 26, 2018How Numerous Incumbent Firms Are Refusing to Be Disrupted - eWeek
February 22, 2018Eight Simple Ways to Keep More Women in the Executive Pipeline - Wall Street Journal
January 30, 2018Amazon is Transforming the Grocery Sector - Enterra Solutions
January 26, 2018Seven big ideas for leaders in 2018: Reflections from the 9th Global Peter Drucker Forum - Financial Times
January 21, 2018Why are some industries hiring the most female CEO’s? - Moneyish
January 20, 2018When The Facts Changed, They Changed Their Minds. What Do You Do? - Forbes
January 1, 2018Bots are about to get better at customer support than human - Wired UK

2017

December 15, 2017MIT SMR Contributors Prominent on 2017 ‘Thinkers50’ List - MIT Sloan Management Review
November 30, 2017The People Problem of Content Strategy - The Content Advisory
November 25, 2017Useful Questions to Ask a Startup - The Startup
November 21, 2017Closer Look: Why Are Women Underrepresented in Some Industries More Than Others - 24/7 Wall St.
November 20, 2017From ‘Built to Last’ to ‘Made for Change’: The Drucker Forum 2017 Meets Agile - Forbes
November 20, 2017Rita named on Thinkers50 2017 Top 10 Strategy Awards List - Thinkers50
November 19, 2017Why we should all feel sorry for corporate leaders - Financial Times
November 15, 2017Managed Cultures Lead the Pack - Work XO
November 14, 2017A Beginners Guide to the Drucker Forum - Financial Times
November 13, 2017What You Need to Know About Bimodal IT - Rimini Street
November 3, 2017Project Management Institute to Host Sixth Annual PMO Symposium in Houston - Sys-Con
October 29, 2017Big data, IoT or digital media can’t save IT cos but this five-point guide can - The Economic Times
October 19, 2017Analysts predict double-digit growth for PayPal - Marketplace
October 15, 2017New Set of Success Factors Based on Co-creation, Innovation Engines and Trailblazing IT Leadership - Fujitsu I-CIO
October 2, 2017Creating a business culture for co-creation and innovation - Fujitsu I-CIO
October 1, 2017The new digital dynamics of competition - Fujitsu I-CIO
September 15, 2017Disruption Isn’t Just a Buzzword. If You Don’t Disrupt Your Own Business, Someone Else Will - The Economic Times
September 12, 2017Will Taxing Robots Like They’re Humans Help Save People’s Jobs? - Moneyish
September 11, 2017Stop Thought Leaders from Turning Useful Ideas into Pap - Financial Times
September 7, 2017Amazon to Add Second Headquarters with Up to 50,000 Jobs in Grab for Talent - USA Today
September 1, 2017Software Strategic Inflection Points - Software Executive Magazine
August 21, 2017The Top 30 Business Thought Leaders to Follow - Clearpoint Strategy
August 12, 2017Alt-right Finds a New Hero: Ex-Googler James Damor - USA Today
August 6, 2017Diversity Debate Divides Silicon Valley - USA TODAY
July 12, 2017How to Set More Realistic Growth Targets - Harvard Business Review
June 13, 2017Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Resigns As Verizon Completes $4.5 Billion Purchase - NPR
June 12, 2017How to Set More Realistic Growth Targets - Harvard Business Review
May 16, 2017How We Chose 2017’s Most Disruptive Innovators - CNBC
May 16, 2017How a Leader Can Build Psychological Safety - Wall Street Journal
April 22, 2017What Happens If Uber Fails? - The Atlantic
April 17, 2017Toshiba Gave Us Flash Memory and Portable PCs – And a Lesson in Risky Nuclear Bet - USA Today
March 22, 2017What Happens If Uber Fails? - The Atlantic
March 10, 2017Kent State’s Spirit of Women in Business Conference attracts about 250 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer
February 17, 2017Why Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vulnerable apology makes him a strong leader - CNBC
February 13, 2017A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning - Harvard Business Review
February 1, 2017Can a 30-Hour Work Week Increase Productivity and Decrease Workplace Stress? - BOSS Magazine
January 20, 2017These businesses are hoping to profit from Trump’s inauguration - MarketWatch
January 10, 2017There are Better Ways to Fail - Columbia Business School
January 10, 2017Is Marissa Mayer a failure? - USA Today

2016

December 22, 2016Google Is Still A Smart Buy: Here’s Why - ValueWalk
December 9, 2016Beware of linearity: The shortest distance to your future may not be a straight line - The Globe and Mail Inc.
November 17, 2016Tip: Reassess ‘Fading Advantages’ to Uncover New Opportunities - MDM
November 10, 201612 Business Speakers to See in 2017 - Huffington Post
October 28, 2016AT&T and Time Warner hope to break the cycle of failed mergers - LA Times
October 25, 2016Who’s next to ‘eat or be eaten’? - Advanced Television
October 18, 2016Marissa Mayer’s diminishing legacy at Yahoo - USA Today
October 14, 2016The 11 Bad Habits Killing Innovation in Your Company - Huffington Post
September 20, 20163 Reasons Why Competitive Advantage is Dead - Inc. Magazine
September 9, 2016Does a 30-hour work week make sense for your business? Lessons from Amazon - Tech Republic
August 26, 2016Amazon is piloting teams with a 30-hour workweek - The Washington Post
August 18, 2016Helping boards tackle new markets and business models - IR Magazine
July 26, 2016Great Additions to Your Summer Reading List: 25 Marketing Books to Educate & Inspire - LinkedIn
July 25, 2016How Yahoo Lost Its Way - Slate
July 25, 2016Marissa Mayer weighs in on the sale of Yahoo - The Washington Post
July 14, 2016Tips for Small-Business Financing - The Wall Street Journal
June 30, 2016What would you do without your Yahoo? Avid users fret as decision looms - USA Today
June 8, 2016A new paradigm is needed to understand competitive advantage - The Australian
June 5, 2016Report: Twitter considered deal with Yahoo - USA Today
June 5, 2016Why entrepreneurs fail - Yahoo Finance
May 3, 20166 ways to advance gender equality in the C-Suite - The Economist
April 14, 2016Boycott over LGBT ‘bathroom law’ may gaining traction as economic fallout grows - ABC 11
March 29, 2016Who’ll Run the World? - The Low Down
March 23, 2016Would You Pay 25 Cents To Read An Article? Blendle Certainly Thinks So - Wired
February 27, 2016The Rise of The Nomad Consultant - Forbes
February 24, 2016Here’s What Marissa Mayer Should Do After Yahoo - Inc. Magazine
February 23, 2016If Yahoo had a dating profile, this would be it - Mashable
February 17, 20163 Strategies For Making Innovative Thinking Routine - Fast Company
January 29, 2016Looking for Startup Funding? Sell Before You Build - The Wall Street Journal
January 25, 2016The End of Competitive Advantage – Book Review - LinkedIn
January 24, 2016This Is How True Unicorn Startups Identify What Consumers Want - Fortune
January 8, 2016Alphabet in 2016: Should You Buy GOOG Stock - U.S. News
January 4, 2016What Is the Greatest Collaboration of All Time? - The Atlantic
January 4, 2016The Top 50 Management Thinkers - Poets & Quants

2015

December 10, 2015Learn from Rita Gunther McGrath: Build Your Brand with Innovation and Strategy - Mobe
October 12, 2015Andy Cohen on the Fine Art of Leveraging Assumptions - CKGSB Knowledge
October 1, 2015Rita Gunther is a business insider on strategy and innovation - In the Black
September 22, 2015Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein Lymphoma Diagnosis: When A CEO I Sick, Should The Company Always Disclose The Illness? - International Business Times
August 24, 2015Jet Lag ‘Cures’ Aplenty, but None That Work for All - The New York Times
July 19, 2015Time is running out for your competitive advantage - LinkedIn
July 18, 2015Last chapter arrives for New York toy store FAO Schwarz - The Telegraph
July 17, 2015How to Think Like an Entrepreneur - Huffington Post
July 2, 2015The Most Influential Business Book Ever Written (According to 15 Thought Leaders) - Echo Junction
June 25, 2015Stop Using Your Grandma’s Strategy Tools – Evolve with Your Customer - Vennli
June 25, 2015The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur - Harvard Business Review
June 16, 2015Goldman to improve its consumer Sachs appeal - Market Place
June 16, 2015Should Managers Read Academic Articles - Forbes
June 15, 2015Your Pet Cats Must Go - PublishThis
June 9, 2015Is Content a Sustainable Competitive Advantage - EContent Magazine
May 29, 2015FAO Schwarz: Too Priceless for words, and for customers - The Washington Post
April 25, 2015Twilight of the gurus - The Economist
April 9, 2015Strategy, Innovation, Entrepreneurship And The End Of Competitive Advantage - Forbes
March 31, 2015Corporate America comes out swinging against ‘religious freedom’ laws - Fortune
March 24, 2015Still missing: Female business leaders - CNN Business
March 16, 2015Dolce & Gabbana is the latest brand to discover the perils of the marriage equality debate - Fortune
March 13, 2015How the ‘Uber effect’ is changing work - CNBC
March 8, 2015Use Buyer Personas To Align Marketing With Business Growth Strategies - Business2Community
March 4, 2015Zombie Projects: How to Find Them and Kill Them - Harvard Business Review
March 3, 2015Tinder gets serious about dating - Market Place
February 7, 2015Digital Transformation Review – Strategies for the Age of Digital Disruption - CapGemini
January 27, 20153 Lessons About Successful Business Growth - Profit Path
January 8, 2015Challenges To Michael Porter And Clayton Christensen Raise New Questions - Forbes

2014

December 10, 2014ITU Telecom 2014 Databases Explore Potential Scenarios - Gulf Times
December 1, 2014Finding Opportunities Others Don’t See - Inc. Magazine
December 1, 2014ITU Telecom 2014 Databases Explore Potential Scenarios - Gulf Times
November 20, 2014Pack Up Your Porter – Make Room for Entrepreneurial Thinking - Fuchsia Blue
November 20, 2014Two Ways to Deal With Innovation Uncertainty More Effectively - Tim Kastelle
November 10, 2014Think You’re Adept at Multi-tasking? Probably Not - Inc. Magazine
October 30, 2014Rita Gunther McGrath’s 5 Essential Books On Entrepreneurial Strategy - Box of Crayons
October 29, 2014When Companies Harm Workers in the Name of Productivity - The Wall Street Journal
October 21, 2014Profits and ‘Social Responsibility’ Are Not Incompatible - The Wall Street Journal
October 20, 2014How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO - Harvard Business Review
October 20, 2014How to Succeed At Endings - Leadership Freak
October 8, 2014Stop Believing That You Have to Be Perfect - Harvard Business Review
October 7, 2014World Business Forum: The Enterprise’s New Playbook For Strategy - CMO.com
October 7, 2014Heard @ Techscout 2014: Strategic Venturing and Innovation Excellence - Barcinno
October 5, 2014Reveal your earnings, spread the wealth - The Globe and Mail Inc.
August 18, 2014What is Competitive Edge? Ignore Stability - Big Think
July 16, 2014Soup to Nuts: Kangaroo jerky, anyone? - Press Herald
July 8, 2014Shortchanged: Why Consumers are snubbing mobile payments - CNBC
July 8, 2014As the cupcake crumbles: Lessons from Crumbs’ demise - Market Place
May 29, 2014The Origins of Discovery-Driven Planning - Harvard Business Review
April 29, 2014The Hole in HR Executives’ Resumes - The Wall Street Journal
April 25, 2014Managing Our Way To Prosperity: No Holy Grail - Forbes
March 27, 2014The Brilliant Business Theory Behind Wu-Tang Clan’s Disruptive Plan - Inc. Magazine
March 26, 2014Global E-Commerce: How to Get Stuff There From Here - Inc. Magazine
March 18, 2014Is Your Strategy Stuck? - Strategy + Business
March 18, 2014Digitalization Is a Big Deal - Strategy + Business
February 26, 2014Digital Education, Yes. MOOCs? Let’s Think It Through - Inc. Magazine
February 25, 2014Seeing Innovation in Strategic Terms - Strategy + Business
February 17, 2014Rita Gunther McGrath on the End of Competitive Advantage - Strategy + Business
February 14, 2014This Year’s Top Three Strategic Challenges - Strategy + Business
February 10, 2014Productivity: You Get What You Pay For (And Then Some) - Inc. Magazine
February 5, 2014Why CVS is giving up smoking - Market Place
January 3, 2014Leverage entrepreneurship for competitive advantage - The Economic Times

2013

December 30, 2013How To Handle Digital Disruption in 2014 - The Wall Street Journal
December 30, 2013How To Handle Digital Disruption in 2014 - The Wall Street Journal
December 20, 2013Sustainable Strategy Is Out. Short Lived Opportunities Are In - Travel Weekly
December 13, 2013They’re Smart. They’re Eager. They Are Not Gordon Gecko - Inc. Magazine
June 27, 20132013 Wise Talk Recap With Sue - Mariposa Leadership
June 3, 2013Transient Advantage - Harvard Business Review
June 2, 2013Its’s Official! The End Of Competitive Advantage - Forbes
May 23, 2013Here’s Why You Need to Build Your Innovation Capability - Tim Kastelle

2012

August 30, 2012How Do You Create an Entrepreneurial Mind-set? - Inc. Magazine

2011

November 1, 2011Search. Spot that opportunity: the definitive guide to finding promising new markets, and more. - Inc. Magazine

2009

May 12, 2009Startup Lessons and Recession Strategies - Inc. Magazine

2008

February 29, 2008Hoping to Make Phone Buyers Flip - The New York Times

2005

April 4, 2005Mapping Out Your Market Busters - Harvard Business School Archives