In May 2009, Rita McGrath spoke at the TechColumbus Innovation Summit. For video of her presentation, click here. To read more about the TechColumbus event, click here.
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Rita McGrath Interviewed by Economic Perspectives
On May 11, 2009, Rita McGrath spoke about Discovery Driven Growth in an interview with Economic Perspectives. To listen to the interview, please click here. The link to the audio can be found as you… Read more »
Houston Chronicle quotes Rita McGrath
In a story about how unpretentious “Mattress Mack” opened a little store by the side of the freeway, turned it into booming business, but recently suffered a devastating fire, Rita McGrath was quoted: “Americans love… 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 »
Rita McGrath quoted in New York Times article
In a NYT article, Saving by Sharing a Room, “Rita McGrath, associate professor of management at Columbia University Business School, estimated that companies could save as much as 50 percent of travel costs by asking… Read more »
The Only Plan is to Learn as You Go
37Signals.com’s post: Ian MacMillan, Wharton professor of innovation and entrepreneurship, and Rita Gunther McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, believe “the only plan is to learn as you go.” They say 1) conventional approaches… Read more »
How to Decide in a Time of Confusion
BNet.com’s article quotes Rita McGrath extensively in its discussion of uncertain business conditions. Don’t Think You Know What to Think: When studying data or trends, watch out for confirmation bias. Simply put, managers are often… Read more »
BNET mentions Discovery Driven Planning as key tool for handling uncertainty
May 6, 2009BNET has listed some key tools for managing under uncertainty. Discovery Driven Planning is one of them!
Rita McGrath Post—Academics: Get Real—How to Fix Business Schools
To fix business schools, we academics should focus less on our reputations among our peers, and more on the connection between our research and real managers in real businesses. One consequence of the quest for… Read more »
Rita McGrath Post—Academics: Get Real—How to Fix Business Schools
To fix business schools, we academics should focus less on our reputations among our peers, and more on the connection between our research and real managers in real businesses. One consequence of the quest for… Read more »
Fix a Credit Card Industry Gone Awry
At Columbia Business School’s Public Offering, Rita McGrath has posted… “One of the companies I studied for my dissertation research, which dealt with how established companies build competences to tackle new areas, was Citibank (as… Read more »