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The May 3, 2007 edition of Columbia Ideas @ Work contains an excerpt entitled The unsung heroes of corporate growth in which Rita McGrath calls for empowering middle managers, who — with their inside company… Read more »

In the April 12, 2007 edition of Expansion Management article, 2007 KNOWLEDGE WORKER QUOTIENT: The Top Metros in the Knowledge Economy, Rita McGrath is quoted… “R&D spending by universities has been associated with important multiplier… Read more »

PT Elex Media Komputindo of Indonesia will publish Market Busters in that country within the next 12 months.

Kellogg’s blog Driving Organic Growth related to Yahoo! dated January 8, 2007 cites Entrepreneurial Mindset, co-authored by Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan. For the entire article, click here.

Rita McGrath is quoted in a December 4, 2006 Business Week Online article entitled Six Sigma Still Pays Off At Motorola The company is thriving, with a culture that lets left-brain and right-brain types coexist…. Read more »

Does your company have the strategic backbone to dominate its market? Only companies that strive for “unfair” competitive advantage make it to the top. How to compete in unforgiving markets? Bursting with bold battle strategies… Read more »

Does your company have the strategic backbone to dominate its market? Only companies that strive for “unfair” competitive advantage make it to the top. How to compete in unforgiving markets? Bursting with bold battle strategies… Read more »

Melody Campbell, Small Business Guru, cites the McGrath/MacMillan Harvard Business Review article Discovering New Points of Differentiation in her posting Consumption Chain: “MacMillan and McGrath list a set of questions to ask about your business:… Read more »

In the November issue in an article entitled Before you measure quality, define it, Rita McGrath is cited as follows: …[McGrath] is the co-author of MarketBusters: 40 Strategic Moves that Drive Exceptional Business Growth, and… Read more »

Extracting Value from Corporate Venturing written by Rita McGrath and her colleagues, Professors Thomas Keil and Taina Tukiainen of Finland, appears in the Fall 2006 MIT Sloan Review. To read the article, click here.

Rita Gunther McGrath is quoted in the NJ.com article entitled Surviving a Merger by Joseph R. Perone: “It is natural to go through an emotional sequence of events when confronted with a big change such… Read more »

A Sacramento Bee story entitled: Switching Tracks: Toy store’s retro concept is major gamble quotes Rita McGrath: “I’m not optimistic about this concept,” said Rita Gunther McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School in New… Read more »