Porter’s five forces and Hamel and Prahalad ’ s core competencies remain central concepts in corporate strategy. But in this book, Rita Gunther McGrath questions whether these ideas—both based on a belief in the need… Read more »
Articles
Making the Shift from Sustainable to Transient Advantage
Innosight recently interviewed Rita McGrath, excerpted below. To read the entire interview, click here. You argue that competitive advantage is dying and that companies need to embrace the idea of transient advantage. What do you… Read more »
Rita McGrath : Strategy in Volatile and Uncertain Environments
eTalks.com interviewed Rita McGrath recently in which she answered a question about strategy: Strategy is fundamentally about making choices. Choices, of course, about what to do but equally importantly about what not to do. I… Read more »
Transient Advantage: New article in HBR
In a new article featured in the June Harvard Business Review, I offer a summary of my new book. Essentially, that strategy is stuck! We've locked ourselves into a view of strategy that depends on… Read more »
An interview with Rita by Thinkers50’s Des Dearlove
A while back, I was in London and took some time to catch up with the folks behind the Thinkers50 management awards. We did a wide-ranging video in which we talk about the nature of competition… Read more »
Gems from the Ashes – How to Recover Value from Discontinued Ventures
May 19, 2000A scholarly study conducted over two years by Rita and her co-authors, Thomas Keil and Taina Tukiainen, has just been published in Organization Science.. This is our abstract: Our longitudinal study of the… Read more »
Gems from the Ashes - How to Recover Value from Discontinued Ventures
May 19, 2000A scholarly study conducted over two years by Rita and her co-authors, Thomas Keil and Taina Tukiainen, has just been published in Organization Science.. This is our abstract: Our longitudinal study of the… Read more »
BNET Discovery Driven Article: Use Growth Business to Promote Employees
In Jeremy Dann’s interview: “In the newly released book Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity, Columbia’s Rita Gunther McGrath and Wharton’s Ian MacMillan reveal some dangerous traps that companies pursuing… Read more »
Market Busters Lead Article in Harvard Business School “Working Knowledge”
The lead article in the April 4, 2005 edition of Working Knowledge, a publication of Harvard Business School, entitled Mapping Out Your Market Busters features an excerpt from Market Busters. For the entire article, click… Read more »
Market Busters Lead Article in Harvard Business School “Working Knowledge”
The lead article in the April 4, 2005 edition of Working Knowledge, a publication of Harvard Business School, entitled Mapping Out Your Market Busters features an excerpt from Market Busters. For the entire article, click… Read more »
Praise for Discovery-Driven Planning
In a talk to attendees of the Medical Devices Executive Summit in San Francisco a few weeks ago, Barry Allen, Entrepreneur in Residence for VC firm, Ventures West Management, was quoted by BioWorld magazine as… Read more »
Harvard Business Online | MarketBusting: Strategies for Exceptional Business Growth
Article reprint available through Harvard Business Online. Order the article today and get your copy in PDF format, hard copy or order your reprint permission. Description: If company leaders were granted a single wish, it… Read more »