In a recent Business Week article entitled The Coming Fight for Executive Talent, Claudio Fernandez-Araoz of search firm Egon Zehnder argues that the number of managers in the right age bracket for leadership roles will… Read more »
Archives for November 2009
Pricing advice for new entrepreneurs
Make sure you’re getting enough margin to account for your time – Advice I suggested on this blog aimed at helping people earn a little more pocket change by starting their own business.
“Ways to Pump up Your Income” Article receives wider coverage
Rita McGrath is quoted in a Money News article — Ways to Pump Up Your Income in the section on generating profit from leisure-time activities. The article was also quoted by CCN Money and at… Read more »
“Ways to Pump up Your Income” Article receives wider coverage
Rita McGrath is quoted in a Money News article — Ways to Pump Up Your Income in the section on generating profit from leisure-time activities. The article was also quoted by CCN Money and at… Read more »
Why companies can develop adversarial relationships with customers
A reporter recently asked me to comment on why some companies seem to develop adversarial relationships with their customers. I found that a really interesting question. Adversarial relationships between customers and companies that serve them… Read more »
Customer experience innovation at the Disney Stores
A major theme that I’ve been following for a while is that rather than conventional product or service innovation, companies that attend to their customers’ total experience with an offering can craft powerful, sticky, and… Read more »
One from the flops file - Mattel’s all but forgotten “Flavas”
As part of my work on understanding how companies compete in dynamic markets, I run across a fair number of flops. Some are well intentioned, and others are just poorly thought through. I was reminded… Read more »
One from the flops file – Mattel’s all but forgotten “Flavas”
As part of my work on understanding how companies compete in dynamic markets, I run across a fair number of flops. Some are well intentioned, and others are just poorly thought through. I was reminded… Read more »
Rita McGrath post named as one of Best Blog Posts for Women in Business at Harvard Business Review
The Smart Lemming has recommended several Harvard Business Review blog posts on Women in Business by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Rita McGrath, and Tamara J. Erickson. The Smart Lemming cites Rita McGrath’s post… Read more »
Resources for those (congratulations!) tagged with starting an innovation unit
Over at my Harvard Publishing Online blog I had posted about starting a new venture unit within a firm. Among the responses I received were requests for additional resources for those lucky people who are… Read more »
The schizophrenic life of an academic
Today’s Wall Street Journal had a fascinating article about the heated competition to become America’s Top College Professor. Aside from being personally inspiring (as someone who spent a lot of years trying to figure out… Read more »
IDEO’s Colin Raney on the ‘large market fallacy’
This week, I’m here with a fantastic group of participants in Columbia’s Leading Strategic Growth and Change program, which I direct. This morning’s presentation featured Colin Raney and Joe Gerber from design consultancy IDEO . … Read more »