March 27, 2009Businessweek online has featured Rita’s recent blog on the AIG bonuses and the way in which companies and leaders make symbolic mistakes. You’ll find the link here.
Archives for 2009
Sign of the times - overheard at the Whole Foods Market checkout this morning
Whole Foods Market is running a promotion in which shoppers can donate at the checkout to support making micro-credit loans to impoverished people in the less developed world. As part of the promotion, the cashier… Read more »
Rita McGrath comments on personal branding in these difficult times
March 26, 2009Dan Schawbel interviewed Rita for his personal branding blog. Among the topics discussed were how small businesses can grow in these tough times, steps to take to reinforce a personal brand, and what… Read more »
Discovery Driven Growth soon to be available in a Kindle edition
Our publishers over at Harvard Business Publishing have arranged for Discovery Driven Growth to be available in a Kindle version within the next 2-6 weeks (so sometime before the end of April, 2009). I would… Read more »
Discovery Driven Growth: Systematic Mistakes in planning new ventures (Interview)
Jeremy Dann a talented observer of the technology and innovation scene and a fellow sometime academic has been following the ideas we’ve talked about in Discovery Driven Growth as well as themes we’ve developed in… Read more »
McGrath comments on APM MarketPlace story on taxing AIG bonuses
March 25, 2009Rita McGrath commented on a news story covered by APM Marketplace reporter Ashley Milne-Tyte about the lack of virtue in government using the tax code to express frustration with symbolic excess. You can… Read more »
A Better Way to Cut Costs featured at Business Exchange
Rita McGrath’s Harvard Business post on A Better Way to Cut Costs was featured at BusinessWeek.com as Recession Business Planning. To read the post, click here.
Overview of Discovery Driven Growth by John Caddell, marketing guru
It’s always rewarding for an author to have work respected by one’s peers. So imagine my delight when John Caddell posted a review of Discovery Driven Growth on his Caddell Insight Group web site. …. Read more »
BNET reviews key ideas from Discovery Driven Growth
Jeremy Dann featured Discovery Driven Growth on his BNET blog posting.
Harvard Business Review “BreakThrough Ideas” for 2009
As many of you will be aware, my co-authored piece with Gurdeep Singh Pall of Microsoft appeared in the “Breakthrough Ideas” article in the Harvard Business Review recently. Harvard has made us a great offer—the… Read more »
Coinstar tops $1B in revenue for 2009
We have long used Coinstar as a great example of a company that created real customer experience innovation by figuring out great ways to get rid of loose change. It features prominently in our “MarketBusting”… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning – BareBones NPV calculator tools
Hello there. Many of you have expressed an interest in the “BareBones” NPV calculator that we use in Discovery Driven Growth. We’re just getting up on that web site now, but those of you who… Read more »