I ran into Floyd in Davos, and he picked up an observation I made about how people respond to bad news. You can find it at this link. The essential idea is that there is… Read more »
Archives for 2009
A Conversation…Obstacles to Innovation-Led Growth
Connected of Columbia Business School interviewed Rita McGrath on Obstacles to Innovation-Led Growth. Connected: Professor McGrath, we know that the economic slowdown is having a detrimental effect on many businesses. How is the current economy… Read more »
A Conversation…Obstacles to Innovation-Led Growth
Connected of Columbia Business School interviewed Rita McGrath on Obstacles to Innovation-Led Growth. Connected: Professor McGrath, we know that the economic slowdown is having a detrimental effect on many businesses. How is the current economy… Read more »
Shrinking banks - a visual that just about says it all!
My esteemed colleague Ian MacMillan sent over a visual that just captures the zeitgeist. Isn’t this just amazing? shrinking_banks_(2).pdf
From Davos: How Al Qaeda Ends
This is a little off the beaten track for me, but it is one of the reasons that people go to Davos – to learn about things they would normally not hear about. While at… Read more »
News flash! Recession promotes customer centricity
A small piece in the Wall Street Journal on February 6 caught my eye. It noted that GE CEO Jeff Immelt has ditched the corporate jet for trips to Washington and is now discovering the… Read more »
Rita McGrath comments on Auto Bailout on YouTube
Click here to listen to Rita McGrath commenting on the auto bailout.
New York Times Davos Diary
New York Times: [Davos 2009 – Day 4 – Dealbook] Industries facing severe structural change go through a seven-step progression before they manage to deal with it, said Rita McGrath, an associate professor at Columbia… Read more »
Rita McGrath Dynamic Strategies
Rita McGrath’s Dynamic Strategies blog at Harvard Business Press are available here to read.
Institutional Memory Goes Digital
Rita McGrath’s article Institutional Memory Goes Digital appears at Harvard Business Review (HBR List 2009). “Suppose every utterance and facial expression at a meeting were routinely captured and archived in high-definition digital video recordings —… Read more »
Human Resource Executive Online
Rita McGrath was quoted in an article entitled A New Helm for HR? by Scott Flander. “It is no longer feasible to simply turn a company around quickly and then put it up for sale,”… Read more »
More on Total Recall Technologies
I’ve been getting a lot of interested reactions from the World Economic Forum / Harvard Business Review “Ideaslab” session I did at Davos. You can find the YouTube version here and it is also published… Read more »