Rita Gunther McGrath
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Rita Gunther McGrath | |
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| Born | July 28, 1959 |
| Alma mater | Barnard College Columbia University The Wharton School |
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| 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]
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.[citation needed]
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]
