In an article entitled What Can You Do with a Liberal Arts Degree? Plenty!, Rita McGrath is quoted, “Employers are starting to value some of the skills a liberal arts degree teaches, including clear writing… Read more »
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Google Docs Discovery-Driven Strategy
Jake Anderson, a Harvard School of Business student, has written a paper analyzing the disruptive nature of Google Docs… “Interestingly, the process of beta testing all of its programs through its general customer base continues… Read more »
Google Docs Discovery-Driven Strategy
Jake Anderson, a Harvard School of Business student, has written a paper analyzing the disruptive nature of Google Docs… “Interestingly, the process of beta testing all of its programs through its general customer base continues… Read more »
HBR Brief—Key ideas from the article by Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan
Excerpt from HBR Brief: “You are weighing a major strategic venture–a first-time alliance, a new market, an innovative product. Beware: business history is littered with stories about smart companies that hemorrhaged multiple millions from ventures… Read more »
HBR Brief—Key ideas from the article by Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan
Excerpt from HBR Brief: “You are weighing a major strategic venture–a first-time alliance, a new market, an innovative product. Beware: business history is littered with stories about smart companies that hemorrhaged multiple millions from ventures… Read more »
Entrepreneurial Mindset: Recommended Reading in WSJ Article
In an article entitled Recommended Reading: Managing IT for Nontechies, Therese Flaherty, professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Wharton Small Business Development Center in Philadelphia, recommends Entrepreneural… Read more »
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 »
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 »
Master Class by Rita McGrath featured in Recruiter Magazine in the UK
October 4, 2007 Recently, I gave a talk at the CIPD Annual Conference, which is the UK’s leading association for Human Resource Professionals. The talk involved how HR can become a leading force in helping… Read more »