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The Entrepreneurial Mindset
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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...
· 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...
Harvard Business School Press
2000-08-01 400 pages ID: 313 Rating: 
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Description: [From HBSP] The Entrepreneurial Mindset offers a refreshingly practical blueprint for thinking and acting in environments that are fast-paced, rapidly changing, and highly uncertain. It provides both a guide to energizing the organization to find tomorrow's opportunities and a set of entrepreneurial principles you can use personally to transform the arenas in which you compete. The authors present simple but powerful ways to stop thinking and acting by the old rules and start thinking with the discipline of a habitual entrepreneur. They show how to: eliminate paralyzing uncertainty by creating an entrepreneurial frame that shapes a shared understanding of what is to be accomplished; create a richly stocked opportunity register to redesign existing products, find new sources of differentiation, resegment existing markets, reconfigure market spaces, and seize the huge upside potential of breakthroughs; build a dynamic portfolio of businesses and options that continuously move your organization toward the future while simultaneously leaving the past behind; execute dynamically your ideas so that you can move fast, with confidence and without undue risk develop your own way of leading with an entrepreneurial mindset to create a vibrant entrepreneurial climate within your organization.
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