In a post addressing the issue of flattened organizations, Rita McGrath is quoted: “When you increase the span of control for each manager, you’re giving each employee that much more leverage over the company,” she… Read more »
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Rita McGrath cited in Business2Community blog
Recent research from the Columbia Business School concludes that fewer than 1% of large, publicly-traded companies deliver consistent growth over time. In fact, only 8% of nearly 5,000 companies studied achieved five percent growth or… Read more »
Lightsquared and dirty rotten cheaters!
At Columbia's School of Engineering, I was very pleased to attend the Armstrong lecture given by Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs. He gave a fascinating talk about Qualcomm's founding, how it emerged from a previous company called… Read more »
Cognizant Among Ten “Growth Outliers” That Have Shown Consistent Growth Over Ten Years
According to research published in Harvard Business Review about how many publicly traded companies with a market capitalization of at least US$1 billion have grown by at least 5% each year over the last ten… Read more »
Krka ranks among the world’s elite companies with steady long-time growth
The results of the research conducted by a renowned business magazine Harvard Business Review ranked Krka Group among the ten elite companies in the world with stable annual growth between 1999 and 2009. The magazine… Read more »
Krka ranks among the world’s elite companies with steady long-time growth
The results of the research conducted by a renowned business magazine Harvard Business Review ranked Krka Group among the ten elite companies in the world with stable annual growth between 1999 and 2009. The magazine… Read more »
Tech powers and a harsh lesson in survival
A January 30, 2012 article by Financial Times on the subject quotes Rita McGrath: “Innovation needs to be treated as material and systematic, not an on-again-off-again process,” says Columbia Business School’s Ms McGrath. The vested… Read more »
MSNBC quotes Rita McGrath re Kodak Chapter 11
MSNBC interviewed Rita McGrath about the Kodak Eastman Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing: “It’s really up in the air at the moment,” said Rita McGrath, a professor of management at Columbia Business School and an expert… Read more »
Rita McGrath named one of the seven most disruptive thinkers of all time
CIO Insight named Rita McGrath as one of seven most disruptive thinkers of all time, acknowledging her co-introduction (with Professor Ian MacMillan) of the concept of “discovery-driven planning,” which encourages testing critical assumptions and adjusting… Read more »
India Times and Indian Express cite Rita McGrath’s Outliers HBR Article
The India Times writes…”In an article titled How the Growth Outliers Do It in HBR’s latest issue, its author Rita Gunther McGrath searched for listed companies that have grown by at least 5% each year… Read more »
India Times and Indian Express cite Rita McGrath’s Outliers HBR Article
The India Times writes…”In an article titled How the Growth Outliers Do It in HBR’s latest issue, its author Rita Gunther McGrath searched for listed companies that have grown by at least 5% each year… Read more »
The Next Women Magazine—Global Top 50 Management Thinkers Herminia Ibarra, Rita McGrath
View an interview with Rita McGrath, Herminia Ibarra, Linda Hill and Vijay Govindarajan during the Thinkers50 Summit, when they joined Studio Talk TV to discuss how their ideas are impacting the business world. Click to… Read more »