In a recent Smart Money magazine article on BuyBacks, Rita McGrath was quoted: “It takes resources away from what they could be investing — innovation and growth,” says Rita Gunther McGrath, an associate professor at… Read more »
Thought Sparks
The Advantage of Not Knowing It All
Ideasatwork108.pdfRita McGrath was interviewed by Columbia University’s Ideas at Work about Discovery-Driven Growth. The entire article can be read in the attached pdf file, which you are welcome to download.
Market Driven Growth— Vertical Integration
Bob Cooper at his Market Driven Growth blog cites Rita McGrath’s post about Why Vertical Integration is Making a Comeback.
Market Driven Growth— Vertical Integration
Bob Cooper at his Market Driven Growth blog cites Rita McGrath’s post about Why Vertical Integration is Making a Comeback.
Micropayments for Content
Bryan Ruby of CMS Report blogs about and agrees with Rita McGrath’s post on Why I Hate Micropayments at Harvard Online.
Old People, Non-Geeks—The iPad’s Unlikely Saviors
The Atlantic Wire writes: Even if nerds kvetch and refuse to buy an iPad, the device may still sell with some big demographics — casual tech users, the disabled, the elderly and women. Columbia Business… Read more »
Old People, Non-Geeks—The iPad’s Unlikely Saviors
The Atlantic Wire writes: Even if nerds kvetch and refuse to buy an iPad, the device may still sell with some big demographics — casual tech users, the disabled, the elderly and women. Columbia Business… Read more »
The London Olympics – One for the “flops file?”
One of my relatives, a UK-based small business owner, has argued for some time that the London Olympics would come to represent a ballooning cost burden for taxpayers and the reality of just what it… Read more »
Growth back on the agenda! From Davos
George Colony (CEO of Forrester Research) noted the following on his post-Davos blog: I always go to Davos with one question to ask all of the luminaries. This year’s question was: “Coming out of the… Read more »
Innovation Leaders—a breed different from corporate managers
The Nasscom Emerge blog cites “Ian MacMillan and Rita McGrath (both taught at a Spring 08 Columbia Business School program I attended) in an HBR article say ‘Most profitable strategies are built on differentiation: offering… Read more »
Innovation Leaders—a breed different from corporate managers
The Nasscom Emerge blog cites “Ian MacMillan and Rita McGrath (both taught at a Spring 08 Columbia Business School program I attended) in an HBR article say ‘Most profitable strategies are built on differentiation: offering… Read more »
Are the Dynamics of Innovation Changing?
At the Total Executive blog, the author cites the 2006 Sloan Management Review article Extracting Value from Corporate Venturing authored by Rita Gunther McGrath, Thomas Keil and Taina Tukiainen: “Executives wax and wane in their… Read more »