Penrose Lecture 1

Rita McGrath (Columbia Business School)

Rita Gunther McGrath is a world-renowned thought leader and an expert on leading innovation and growth during times of uncertainty. Rita is a professor at Columbia Business School and the author of five books, including the best-selling The End of Competitive Advantage and the upcoming Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen. She has received the #1 achievement award for strategy from the prestigious Thinkers50 and has been consistently named one of the world’s top ten management thinkers in its bi-annual ranking. Follow Rita on Twitter @rgmcgrath. For more information, visit RitaMcGrath.com.

In partnership with the Financial Times.

Please note that there are two lectures in this series:

Register for Lecture 1 - "Financialisation and the innovative capability of firms: Penrose’s lessons loom large" (24th April)

Register for Lecture 2 - "From firms to markets: How digitization is changing our theories of firm level growth" (26th April)

Organiser: The Penrose Lectures Committee, SOAS University of London

Speakers: Rita McGrath (Columbia Business School)

Released by: SOAS Economics Podcasts