Rita Gunther McGrath
Rita Gunther McGrath | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 28, 1959 |
| Alma mater | Barnard College Columbia University The Wharton School |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship |
| Institutions | Columbia Business School |
| Website | www |
Rita Gunther McGrath (born July 28, 1959, in New Haven, Connecticut) is an Academic Director in Executive Education and professor of management at Columbia Business School with a research interest in strategic management. Her research focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship, including the development of discovery-driven planning.[1][2][3]
Life and work
McGrath graduated from Barnard College in 1981 and earned a Master of Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University in 1982.[3] In 1993, she completed her Ph.D. at The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) with a dissertation entitled Developing New Competence in Established Organizations.[4]
After graduating in 1993, McGrath joined Columbia as an Assistant Professor of Management.[3] In 1998, she was promoted to Associate Professor of Management, and later, she became a full Professor in the Faculty of Executive Education.[3] In 2009, she was elected Fellow of the Strategic Management Society,[5] and in 2014 she was elected the Deputy Dean of their Fellows.[6]
In 2013, she was elected Fellow of the International Academy of Management.
McGrath is also the founder of the innovation platform Valize.[7]
Honors and awards
- 2022: C. K. Prahalad award for scholarly impact on practice from the Strategic Management Society[8]
- 2022: Inducted into the Business Excellence Hall of Fame by the Business Excellence Institute[9]
- 2016: Theory to Practice award from the Vienna Strategy Forum[9]
- 2013: Distinguished Achievement Award in Strategy from Thinkers50[10]
Selected publications
Books
- MacMillan, Ian C. and Rita Gunther McGrath. The entrepreneurial mindset: Strategies for continuously creating opportunity in an age of uncertainty. Vol. 284. Harvard Business School Press, 2000.
- MacMillan, Ian C., and Rita Gunther McGrath. MarketBusters: 40 Strategic Moves That Drive Exceptional Business Growth. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2005.
- MacMillan, Ian C. and Rita Gunther McGrath. Discovery Driven Growth: A breakthrough process to reduce risk and seize opportunity. Harvard Business Review Press, 2009.[11]
- McGrath, Rita Gunther. The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2013.
- McGrath, Rita Gunther. Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.[12]
References
- ^ Zahra, Shaker A., and Gerard George. "Absorptive capacity: A review, reconceptualization, and extension." Academy of management review 27.2 (2002): 185-203.
- ^ Hitt, Michael, R. Duane Ireland, and Robert Hoskisson. Strategic management cases: competitiveness and globalization. Cengage Learning, 2012.
- ^ a b c d "Rita McGrath | Columbia Business School". business.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2026-01-06.
- ^ Gunther, Mcgrath (1993). The Development of New Competences in Established Organizations (Thesis). University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
- ^ "Fellows of the Strategic Management Society". Fellows.strategicmanagement.net. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ "SMS Fellows - Strategic Management Society - Welcome from Dean". Fellows.strategicmanagement.net. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ "Valize". Valize. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
- ^ "Rita McGrath, winner of the 2022 CK Prahalad Award for Scholarly Impact on Practice". Retrieved 17 April 2023.
- ^ a b "Excellence Hall of Fame – Rita Gunther McGrath - The Business Excellence Institute". 2024-05-14. Retrieved 2025-12-26.
- ^ "Distinguished Achievement Awards 2013". Thinkers 50. 11 November 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ MacMillan, Ian; McGrath, Rita (1997-07-01). "Discovering New Points of Differentiation". Harvard Business Review. ISSN 0017-8012. Retrieved 2025-12-26.
- ^ McGrath, Rita; MacMillan, Ian (1995-07-01). "Discovery-Driven Planning". Harvard Business Review. ISSN 0017-8012. Retrieved 2025-12-26.