Just back from Davos! Tomorrow, Columbia Executive Education will be hosting a complementary webinar on an article that is in this months' Harvard Business Review on growth outliers. The webinar will explore the seemingly contradictory… Read more »
Archives for January 2012
Davos 2012
I am in Davos at the World Economic Forum where I facilitated a session on Entrepreneurship and Intelligent Failure. View my impressions here on YouTube.
Controlling complex systems – insights from Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
In another fascinating session at the World Economic forum, Barabasi who is a distinguished Professor of Physics at Northeastern, presented some of his work on how one can 'control' a complex system. We all know… Read more »
Davos: Using complexity to fight cyber-criminals
This morning, I moderated a panel on "Managing Complexity with the Santa Fe Institute at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. One of the featured thought leaders was Stephanie Forrest, a computer scientist who… Read more »
MSNBC quotes Rita McGrath re Kodak Chapter 11
MSNBC interviewed Rita McGrath about the Kodak Eastman Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing: “It’s really up in the air at the moment,” said Rita McGrath, a professor of management at Columbia Business School and an expert… Read more »
Rita McGrath named one of the seven most disruptive thinkers of all time
CIO Insight named Rita McGrath as one of seven most disruptive thinkers of all time, acknowledging her co-introduction (with Professor Ian MacMillan) of the concept of “discovery-driven planning,” which encourages testing critical assumptions and adjusting… Read more »
What are we to use to replace industry analysis in strategy?
In my blog over at the Harvard business review web site, I noted that industry boundaries are blurring and that this can lead to serious strategy miscalculations. Several people wrote in to say that they… Read more »
India Times and Indian Express cite Rita McGrath’s Outliers HBR Article
The India Times writes…”In an article titled How the Growth Outliers Do It in HBR’s latest issue, its author Rita Gunther McGrath searched for listed companies that have grown by at least 5% each year… Read more »
India Times and Indian Express cite Rita McGrath’s Outliers HBR Article
The India Times writes…”In an article titled How the Growth Outliers Do It in HBR’s latest issue, its author Rita Gunther McGrath searched for listed companies that have grown by at least 5% each year… Read more »
Lessons from the Growth Outliers – HBR Article available for download
This is an article about an exceptional group of companies – publicly traded, with market cap as of 2009 of over $1 Billion USD – who were able to grow their net incomes by at… Read more »