The smartest behavioral economists in the world run credit card companies. I’ve always believed that. If you ever wanted absolute proof that the ‘rational actor’ model of economic behavior is completely unrealistic, you need look… Read more »
Archives for 2008
Will Netbooks Disrupt Laptops?
Will Netbooks Disrupt Laptops? posted by Rita McGrath at Harvard Business Publishing has been picked up by and commented on by several bloggers, including Jason Burke at SAS Health and Life Science “
Junior Youth blog recommends Rita McGrath article to youthful readers
A blog devoted to providing the “best online learning experiences to today’s youth” promotes among other articles, Rita McGrath’s Harvard Business Press August 20, 2008 article: Unleash the Emotional Appeal of Your Product at Junior… Read more »
American carmakers and fleet rentals - an unfortunate relationship
Rich Karlgaard, writing a recent piece in Forbes made an observation that expresses something I have long believed. American carmakers have done themselves a nasty disservice by sending car rental companies their ‘fleet sales’ versions… Read more »
Lessons from innovation’s front lines
Driving Organic Growth, the Kellogg School blog, references discovery-driven growth in an an article discussing the company IDEO’s single-minded focus for executives seeking insights on innovation. The company’s deep experience collaborating with other businesses and… Read more »
Lessons from innovation’s front lines
Driving Organic Growth, the Kellogg School blog, references discovery-driven growth in an an article discussing the company IDEO’s single-minded focus for executives seeking insights on innovation. The company’s deep experience collaborating with other businesses and… Read more »
BNet Insight features Rita McGrath
Jeremy Dann of BNet has interviewed Rita McGrath twice recently. See MarketBusters Author: Customer Care Vital in Downturn and Columbia’s Rita Gunther McGrath: In Tough Times, Ax Isn’t Tool of Choice.
Bail out GM? No Way
At Columbia Business School Public Offering blog, read Rita McGrath’s posting: We’ve been down this road before, and seldom has the ending been pretty. General Motors and the other American carmakers are textbook cases of… Read more »
Consumption Chain
Tim Bosworth at his HatMan blog refers to Entrepreneurial Mindset and its definition: A Consumption Chain is a set of linked activities that describes how a consumer uses a product. Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian… Read more »
The Big Three and Symbolic Chernobyls – will they never Learn?
Today’s headlines in most major newspapers have detailed the sad story of the CEO’s of the Big Three American automakers slinking off back to their offices—well, actually traveling back to their offices in private jets—after… Read more »
The Big Three and Symbolic Chernobyls - will they never Learn?
Today’s headlines in most major newspapers have detailed the sad story of the CEO’s of the Big Three American automakers slinking off back to their offices—well, actually traveling back to their offices in private jets—after… Read more »
Deer-in-the-Headlights Leadership
Rita McGrath’s blog at Harvard Business Publishing entitled Absorb Their Uncertainty — And Get Your People Unstuck was picked up by the Washington Post in an article entitled Time to Quit Your Job?