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November 14, 2007

Rita McGrath quoted in Business Review, November 2007

In a Business Review article entitled The Training Chain, Rita McGrath is cited: It might be tempting to shun the cost and uncertainty of outsourcing your training and go completely in-house, McGrath says, but unless… Read more »

Filed Under: News Archives

November 6, 2007

Making passengers smile at Zurich International Airport – the power of small differentiators

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 »

Filed Under: Insights and ideas

November 3, 2007

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 »

Filed Under: Business School, Executive Education

October 30, 2007

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 »

Filed Under: News Archives

October 30, 2007

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.

Filed Under: News Archives

October 29, 2007

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 »

Filed Under: News Archives

October 29, 2007

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 »

Filed Under: News Archives

October 24, 2007

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 »

Filed Under: Uncategorized

October 24, 2007

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 »

Filed Under: Business Strategy

October 17, 2007

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 »

Filed Under: Opportunities

October 17, 2007

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 »

Filed Under: Innovation

October 15, 2007

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 »

Filed Under: Business Start Ups / Entrepreneurship

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