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 »
Thought Sparks
Groupon: Didn’t like it before, don’t like it much better now
I have gone on the record as being dubious about Groupon’s business model for some time now. Indeed, in an article published in the European Financial Review, I suggested that a simple diagnostic quiz could… 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 »
Complementary webinar tomorrow (January 31) “How the Growth Outliers Do It”
Just back from Davos! Tomorrow, Columbia Executive Education will be hosting a complementary webinar on an article that is in this months' Harvard Business Review on growth outliers. The webinar will explore the seemingly contradictory… Read more »
Davos 2012
I am in Davos at the World Economic Forum where I facilitated a session on Entrepreneurship and Intelligent Failure. View my impressions here on YouTube.
Controlling complex systems – insights from Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
In another fascinating session at the World Economic forum, Barabasi who is a distinguished Professor of Physics at Northeastern, presented some of his work on how one can 'control' a complex system. We all know… Read more »
Davos: Using complexity to fight cyber-criminals
This morning, I moderated a panel on "Managing Complexity with the Santa Fe Institute at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. One of the featured thought leaders was Stephanie Forrest, a computer scientist who… 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 »
What are we to use to replace industry analysis in strategy?
In my blog over at the Harvard business review web site, I noted that industry boundaries are blurring and that this can lead to serious strategy miscalculations. Several people wrote in to say that they… 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 »