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Rita McGrath and Elana Weinstein

Teaches at Columbia Business School

Rita McGrath, Faculty Director
Associate Professor of Management
Faculty Member, Executive Education


Rita McGrath is a globally recognized expert on strategy, innovation, and growth. Her work and ideas help CEO's and senior executives succeed in rapidly changing and volatile environments, and she is valued for her rare ability to connect research to business problems. Recognized as one of the top 10 management thinkers by global management award Thinkers50 in 2013 and winning the award for outstanding achievement in the strategy category, McGrath speaks regularly at corporate events, such as the Microsoft CEO Summit and the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. She appears regularly on television and radio and is often cited in the press, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, and Businessweek, Inc. and has published several articles in the Harvard Business Review. McGrath is the co-author of three books in addition to her latest book, The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast As Your Business (Harvard Business Review Press).

She has also been named one of the top ten business school professors to follow on Twitter, and was named one of the 25 smartest women to follow on Twitter by Fast Company magazine. In 2009, she was inducted as a fellow of the Strategic Management Society, an honor given to those who have had a significant impact on the field.
Prior to life in academia, McGrath was an IT director, worked in the political arena and founded two startups.

Elana Weinstein, Program Director
Athena Leadership Center at Barnard College


Elana Weinstein is a certified coach, diversity practitioner and experienced talent management professional. She specializes in learning and development and diversity and inclusion efforts with experience in the corporate, not-for-profit and academic sectors. Prior to joining Barnard, she founded the role of Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Bloomberg LP working directly with senior management to determine the vision, development, and implementation of the company’s global diversity and inclusion strategy. In this role, she contributed to the company’s recruiting, retention, talent review and leadership and learning initiatives. Elana was also a key contributor to the company’s social impact agenda focusing on community engagement, sustainability, philanthropic and wellness efforts.

Elana has also served as Vice President in Global Leadership and Diversity at Goldman Sachs, managing the firm’s global leadership and diversity initiatives with a specific focus on women’s initiatives and women’s leadership development. In her career, she has also worked at The New Yorker magazine, the Anti-Defamation League and Girl Scouts of the USA.
She holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master’s in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She serves on the Board of Directors for TADA!, a nonprofit youth theater organization in New York, and she is on the Workplace Advisory Council for the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding.

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