Business Insights blog is publishing excerpts from an interview with Rita McGrath: “In order to avoid becoming complacent with your clients, you’ve got to keep your eyes open. Creating benchmarks in the market will help… Read more »
Thought Sparks
Thought Sparks, the brainchild of Rita McGrath, are insightful actions, strategic ideas, actionable suggestions and innovative approaches that help organizations and leaders master the future with less fear and more confidence. New episodes of the Thought Sparks Podcast are released every other Tuesday at 11am Eastern. Prior to 2025, episodes of the Thought Sparks Podcast were known as Fireside Chats.
Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan cited in Forbes
The Forbes article excerpts From Strategy to Execution: Turning Accelerated Global Change into Opportunity by Clayton Christensen and cites Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan as follows: “Instead, companies should focus on progress-tracking metrics such as… Read more »
Business Week.com features Rita McGrath’s Harvard’s Dynamic Strategies blog post
Business Week has featured Rita McGrath’s August 27, 2008 post at Harvard Business entitled Cut Costs like Avon — Not Home Depot. The Business Week post is here.
Business Week.com features Rita McGrath’s Harvard’s Dynamic Strategies blog post
Business Week has featured Rita McGrath’s August 27, 2008 post at Harvard Business entitled Cut Costs like Avon — Not Home Depot. The Business Week post is here.
Real Options, the Living Dead, and how to play the possibility of failure in the financial markets
I’m a big fan of thinking of bets in highly uncertain environments in terms of options. With growth options, I usually advise thinking of new opportunities as options – in which you place a small… Read more »
Management Techniques actually work!
If you didn’t catch the article by Scott Thurm in today’s Wall Street Journal, you should check it out. He reports that researchers from Stanford University, the London School of Economics and the consulting firm… Read more »
Powerful use of symbolism by leaders of change
One of the most powerful levers for leaders to use in trying to create change is through symbolism. Symbols give meaning to activities that would otherwise lack emotion or conviction. I was thinking about this… Read more »
Unleash the Emotional Appeal of Your Product
Rita McGrath posted to the Harvard Business Publishing site on this topic on August 20th: “In our book MarketBusters, my colleague Ian MacMillan and I encouraged companies to think about how adding an emotional appeal… Read more »
Making the Consumption Chain Smarter
Stephen L. Schwartz of Intermec Technologies and a attendee at a recent Columbia Executive Education Leading Strategic Initiatives class led by Rita McGrath wrote to her of an innovation implemented by its client Vail Resorts…. Read more »
Even law firms can use new business models - Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges
An article in Fast Company’s September issue features a Los Angeles law firm that is making big bucks with a business model that is foreign to traditional firms. For some years, I’ve worked with the… Read more »
Discovery Driven Planning: Debunking dumb entrepreneurial ideas
Wired magazine runs a regular column by “Mr. Know-It-All” in which the great mysteries of our time—such as how to retrieve porn from a laptop you’ve loaned to a friends’ child and what the correct… Read more »
Apologies for hiatus
The summer certainly took a toll on blogging for me, although all in a good cause. My parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary (isn’t that an accomplishment in this day and age!), and I took… Read more »