Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. public market capitalization over this period. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. We calculate that U.S.

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Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

New research from the McKinsey Global Institute simulates the potential global macroeconomic impact of five powerful technologies (computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning). But how will AI impact the economy in broad terms? Why do laggards not jump into AI?

GDP 8

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Though both statements may sound extreme, they are the clear implication of new McKinsey research on how companies create value and allocate resources. The rest of the companies, more than 2,400, simply do not have a strategy that effectively outperforms the market. First, you don’t have a powerful strategy. Inertia is expensive.

Strategy 8

Strategy McKinsey Strategic Planning Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Africa shows every sign of being the world’s next big growth market. It is home to more fast-growing economies than any other region, hundreds of successful big companies, and an urbanizing consumer market whose spending outstrips that of India. lucydphoto/Getty Images. billion by 2050. Further Reading. Add to Cart.

Brand 8

Brand Case Study Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

A group of us bought the company from the Armstrong Group in a buy-out in 2007. Starting in our biggest business — carpet tiles — our managers and staff have gone through the grinding process of identifying every single chemical in our products. 1] McKinsey & Co., I'm also an owner. We did that.

Strategy 10

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

According to a 2007 McKinsey & Co. In 2009, sales totaled $114 billion, making China the world's second-largest apparel market behind the $287 billion U.S. Franchising speeds growth and entails less capital, but the risks include inconsistent execution and inefficient inventory management.

Apparel 12

Apparel Franchising Retail Fashion 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

By ignoring the distribution, that statistic masks a more important trend: As the McKinsey Global Institute has documented , variance in corporate earnings has increased substantially as well. ” Similarly, in 2007 Giulia Faggio and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics and Kjell G.

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McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

I earned my MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in 2000, and since 2007 I’ve been an Instructor and an internal coach back at the GSB, helping hundreds of students develop their leadership and interpersonal skills. Practical leadership and management skills. Here’s how I respond to those inquiries.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. Both of these lead to better management and higher RQ.

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Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 8