Here I am in Switzerland, working with one of Columbia’s best clients, Swiss Reinsurance. We run a program called “Creating Breakthrough Strategies” for their most senior executives, and it’s always a highlight. I was struck… Read more »
Thought Sparks
Columbia Business School offers one of the best “spare time” B Schools in Business Week
Business Week has just published its highly influential rankings of executive MBA and Executive Education programs, and I’m pleased and proud to note that Columbia has not only done well, but improved its position considerably… Read more »
Can Entrepreneurship be Taught?
Rita McGrath was interviewed for the Career Press 2007 book Entrepreneurial Excellence: Profit From the Best Ideas of the Experts by its author Richard Goossen, Canadian professor and entrepreneur. Goossen is quoted at Business Week,… Read more »
Ten Telltale Signs of a Flawed Venturing Process
Rita McGrath and Thomas Keil, professor of strategic management at Helsinki University of Technology, recently published The Value Captor’s Process: Getting the Most out of Your New Business Ventures at the Harvard Business Review.
Rita McGrath quoted in Advertising Age
In a recent issue of Advertising Age entitled What to Do When Personal Style Impedes Success, Rita McGrath is quoted: “People who are successful get feedback from everyone, even from taxi drivers,” said Rita Gunther… Read more »
So now CEO’s have to create value? How novel!
It was fascinating to read in this week’s Business Week that as easy money has evaporated in the world of private equity, that the CEO’s of these firms have to resort to the traditional practice… Read more »
Managing your boss
I’m here in Japan in a program that Columbia runs in partnership with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). One of the topics we’re working on has to do with managing your boss –… Read more »
Competing with your customers as you grow
A conversation taking place among colleagues over at the Kellogg innovation blog/web forum (http://marketdrivengrowth.blogspot.com) has to do with how you can move into spaces that are occupied to some extent by your customers,with the goal… Read more »
GPS Technology to end car crashes
Wired magazine features an innovative use of new GPS technology that I thought could be the harbinger of all kinds of opportunities. The system is called “StarChase Pursuit Management System” and it works like this: … Read more »
How fleeting an advantage can be in financial services –
Yesterday, I was teaching in Columbia’s flagship Columbia Senior Executive Program (which we call CSEP for short). We were discussing how difficult it can be to prevent competitive imitation of innovations in financial services, and… Read more »
Venture Capitalists may not be so good at stopping failing projects after all
My colleague, Isin Guler, has just published a fascinating study in one of our more erudite management journals. In an exhaustive look at investments made by venture capital companies, she finds that as funding rounds… Read more »
Corporate Venturing – Stop being so fickle!
Enthusiasm for corporate venturing (efforts by firms to create new businesses from within) come and go over time. Firms set up venture groups, get disillusioned with them, fold them back into the core business only… Read more »