Rita Gunther McGrath Biography
Rita Gunther McGrath joined the faculty of Columbia Business School in 1993. Prior to life in academia, she was an IT director, worked in the political arena and founded two startups. Her Ph.D. is from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
McGrath's research focuses on innovation, entrepreneurship and growth strategies. She publishes widely in leading academic journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal and Management Science. The Strategic Management Society presented her with the McKinsey 'best paper' award in 2001. She also received the Maurice Holland award from the Industrial Research Institute for the best paper published in Research Technology Management (2000). Previous awards include the Academy of Management Review "best paper" award for "Falling Forward: Real Options Reasoning and Entrepreneurial Failure" (1999), the Entrepreneurship Th...
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· Ian C. MacMillan Biography
The Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Professor of Management
Director, Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center.
DBA, University of South Africa, 1975; MBA (cum laude), University of South Africa, 1972; BS, University of Witwatersrand, 1963
Research Areas
Organizational competence; new venture management; entrepreneurship; strategic management
Recent Consulting
Microsoft, Air Products, Citibank, Greenwich Pharmaceuticals, Chubb and Sons, NYSE, Dupont, General Electric, GTE, IBM, Metropolitan Life, American Re-Insurance, Matsushita (Japan), Olympus (Japan), L.G. Group (Korea), Texas Instruments, KPMG, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Fluor Daniel; Workout initiative, GE, 1989-92
Current Projects
Technology strategy, rapid growth firms, societal wealth enterprising.
Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1986-present (named the Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entreprene...
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