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November 13, 2008

Deer-in-the-Headlights Leadership

Rita McGrath’s blog at Harvard Business Publishing entitled Absorb Their Uncertainty — And Get Your People Unstuck was picked up by the Washington Post in an article entitled Time to Quit Your Job?

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October 16, 2008

Characteristics of Winner-Take-All Markets: A Change in the Basis of Competition

Rita Gunther McGrath’s And the Winner Takes it All? Necessary Conditions and Entry Strategies in Winner-Take-All Market, in Strategy, Innovation, and Change: Challenges for Management has been quoted at the Business Innovation blog. To read… Read more »

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October 16, 2008

Characteristics of Winner-Take-All Markets: A Change in the Basis of Competition

Rita Gunther McGrath’s And the Winner Takes it All? Necessary Conditions and Entry Strategies in Winner-Take-All Market, in Strategy, Innovation, and Change: Challenges for Management has been quoted at the Business Innovation blog. To read… Read more »

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October 14, 2008

Tightwad Bank: A Lesson in Branding

Entrepreneur’s story about Tightwad Bank in Tightwad, MO quotes Rita McGrath: using a different kind of name is a “strategy that’s used by many firms to add an empathic or emotional appeal to their products… Read more »

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September 13, 2008

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 »

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September 9, 2008

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.

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September 9, 2008

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.

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September 8, 2008

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 »

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August 27, 2008

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 »

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August 15, 2008

Strategy Innovation vs. Strategic Planning (Discovery Driven Planning)

Business Innovation blog posted “If you are intrigued by the potential of strategy innovation for your company, be aware that you will not get it from your current strategic planning process. You will have to… Read more »

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July 18, 2008

Should Successful Companies Bother with Innovation?

Scott D. Anthony, president of Innosight, an innovation consulting and investing company with offices in Massachusetts, Singapore, and India poses that question at the Harvard Business Publishing blog and mentions Rita McGrath as one of… Read more »

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July 18, 2008

Mapping the Consumption Chain

The http://www.unitedbit.com blog has posted a three-part series from a McGrath-MacMillan excerpt on Mapping the Consumption Chain. “Most profitable strategies are built on differentiation: offering customers something they value that competitors don’t have. A company… Read more »

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