Upcoming Events
Professor Rita McGrath, Seeing Around Corners
Education First | September 25th | 6:00 PM
Please join us in Cambridge for what is sure to be a night of intimacy and conversation with one of Columbia Business School's most beloved professors.
Rita McGrath is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on corporate strategy. Much in demand for her cutting-edge insights, her ideas have been widely used by leading organizations throughout the world. Among other innovations, she first introduced the concept of “Discovery Driven Planning”, which was recognized as an early articulation of today’s “lean” startup philosophy and which was praised by Clayton Christensen (who has provided the foreword for SEEING AROUND CORNERS) as one of the most important ideas in management— ever. A highly-respected academic researcher and faculty member at Columbia Business School, McGrath’s work has won awards from the most prestigious management journals.
Rita will be sharing insights from her new book: Seeing Around Corners: Strategic Inflection Points and the New Strategy Playbook
A strategic inflection point calls into question the taken-for-granted assumptions upon which businesses are based. Inflection points can take a business to new heights – or if they are disregarded or ignored – bring it to ruin.
In this talk, Rita McGrath describes the new context for strategy, one of short-lived competitive cycles, and how this creates the need for a new strategy playbook. She describes how arenas are a more useful construct for anticipating the future than industries, how to think about customers in terms of their jobs to be done, and how to best position yourself to pick up insights from the edges of your organization.
The first twenty attendees to the event will receive a copy of the book. Refreshments will be served.
Special thanks to fellow alum Vivek Sable '10 for hosting. Hope to see you all for what is sure to be an engaging evening
Date: September 25th at 6:00 pm
Cost: $25/alum, $35/guest
RSVP: https://cbsboston092519.eventbrite.com
Location: Education First, 2 Education Circle, Cambridge, MA
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SAVE THE DATE: Beyond Cheap Talk: Productive Conversations in Bargaining and Problem-Solving, with Professor Daniel Ames
Thursday, December 5
Description: Columbia Business School alumni and guests are cordially invited to an event featuring Professor Daniel Ames, Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Business. Professor Ames will discuss 'Beyond Cheap Talk: Productive Conversations in Bargaining and Problem-Solving,' offering practical advice based on the latest research from scholars at Columbia Business School. Professor Ames leads the School's negotiations curriculum which trains nearly 1,000 MBA and EMBA students a year using simulations and roleplay activities. More information on Professor Ames' research and media presence can be found on the School's website.
Bio: Daniel Ames (Ph.D.) is the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Business in the Management Division at Columbia Business School, where he leads the School’s curriculum on negotiation. He is also the co-director of Columbia Business School’s Leadership Lab, which supports leadership development within and beyond the MBA curriculum.
A social and personality psychologist, Daniel earned his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. His research revolves around how people perceive and interact with one another. He studies how people fight and cooperate, how people form impressions and bond, and how people read one another’s minds—or fail to. His work appears in scholarly outlets in psychology and organizational behavior and has been covered by media outlets ranging from The New York Times to Scientific American to Forbes.
At Columbia, Daniel is an award-winning instructor, teaching popular courses and workshops on topics including leadership, decision making, negotiations, and conflict. Daniel has delivered sessions for a wide variety of audiences, ranging from non-profit leaders in Saudi Arabia to private equity executives in Connecticut and from law firm partners in Los Angeles to elementary school teachers in Bedford Stuyvesant. Through the Tamer Center, Daniel leads teams of MBA students who deliver negotiation and problem-solving training to incarcerated individuals as part of the Re-Entry Acceleration Program.
Education First | September 25th | 6:00 PM
Please join us in Cambridge for what is sure to be a night of intimacy and conversation with one of Columbia Business School's most beloved professors.
Rita McGrath is regarded as one of the world’s top experts on corporate strategy. Much in demand for her cutting-edge insights, her ideas have been widely used by leading organizations throughout the world. Among other innovations, she first introduced the concept of “Discovery Driven Planning”, which was recognized as an early articulation of today’s “lean” startup philosophy and which was praised by Clayton Christensen (who has provided the foreword for SEEING AROUND CORNERS) as one of the most important ideas in management— ever. A highly-respected academic researcher and faculty member at Columbia Business School, McGrath’s work has won awards from the most prestigious management journals.
Rita will be sharing insights from her new book: Seeing Around Corners: Strategic Inflection Points and the New Strategy Playbook
A strategic inflection point calls into question the taken-for-granted assumptions upon which businesses are based. Inflection points can take a business to new heights – or if they are disregarded or ignored – bring it to ruin.
In this talk, Rita McGrath describes the new context for strategy, one of short-lived competitive cycles, and how this creates the need for a new strategy playbook. She describes how arenas are a more useful construct for anticipating the future than industries, how to think about customers in terms of their jobs to be done, and how to best position yourself to pick up insights from the edges of your organization.
The first twenty attendees to the event will receive a copy of the book. Refreshments will be served.
Special thanks to fellow alum Vivek Sable '10 for hosting. Hope to see you all for what is sure to be an engaging evening
Date: September 25th at 6:00 pm
Cost: $25/alum, $35/guest
RSVP: https://cbsboston092519.eventbrite.com
Location: Education First, 2 Education Circle, Cambridge, MA
****
SAVE THE DATE: Beyond Cheap Talk: Productive Conversations in Bargaining and Problem-Solving, with Professor Daniel Ames
Thursday, December 5
Description: Columbia Business School alumni and guests are cordially invited to an event featuring Professor Daniel Ames, Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Business. Professor Ames will discuss 'Beyond Cheap Talk: Productive Conversations in Bargaining and Problem-Solving,' offering practical advice based on the latest research from scholars at Columbia Business School. Professor Ames leads the School's negotiations curriculum which trains nearly 1,000 MBA and EMBA students a year using simulations and roleplay activities. More information on Professor Ames' research and media presence can be found on the School's website.
Bio: Daniel Ames (Ph.D.) is the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Business in the Management Division at Columbia Business School, where he leads the School’s curriculum on negotiation. He is also the co-director of Columbia Business School’s Leadership Lab, which supports leadership development within and beyond the MBA curriculum.
A social and personality psychologist, Daniel earned his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. His research revolves around how people perceive and interact with one another. He studies how people fight and cooperate, how people form impressions and bond, and how people read one another’s minds—or fail to. His work appears in scholarly outlets in psychology and organizational behavior and has been covered by media outlets ranging from The New York Times to Scientific American to Forbes.
At Columbia, Daniel is an award-winning instructor, teaching popular courses and workshops on topics including leadership, decision making, negotiations, and conflict. Daniel has delivered sessions for a wide variety of audiences, ranging from non-profit leaders in Saudi Arabia to private equity executives in Connecticut and from law firm partners in Los Angeles to elementary school teachers in Bedford Stuyvesant. Through the Tamer Center, Daniel leads teams of MBA students who deliver negotiation and problem-solving training to incarcerated individuals as part of the Re-Entry Acceleration Program.
