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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

A group of us bought the company from the Armstrong Group in a buy-out in 2007. Our numbers seem to be moving that way: our annual earnings (EBIT on a normalized basis) increased from 1% of sales in 2007 to 9% in 2010 in our original carpet business. 1] McKinsey & Co., I'm also an owner. We did that.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

And a report from the Government Accountability Office shows that from 2000 to 2007 the number of women managers increased by only 1 percent (and they’re still paid less than their male counterparts). And no matter how you interpret them, they come to two general conclusions: Males are aggressive; females are nurturing.

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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. The Chinese are also becoming more aware of fashion. survey, only 12% of consumers said they keep abreast of the latest fashions.

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Apparel Franchising Retail Fashion 13

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. So ask yourself: What market am I in now? What markets might I seek to enter in the future?

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Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Every industry loves to co-opt it; for example, in consulting, you’ll hear: “You never get fired for hiring McKinsey.” in revenue per lawyer over the 5-year period from 2007-12. But make no mistake: the competition for market share in the legal space is tough and getting tougher.' in the same period.

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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. For one thing, small-company innovation is often more visible.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global. For instance, before the crisis, the three largest German banks had two-thirds of their total assets in foreign markets; today it is only one-third. trillion, or 45%.

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Banking McKinsey Finance Globalization 8

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. Others will try and fail.

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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.

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Brand Case Study Globalization Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. public market capitalization over this period.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

Between 1980 and 2007, cross-border trade and financial flows grew tenfold in nominal terms. Perhaps that’s because the most productive firms benefit from export growth, or it could be because domestic firms become more productive by competing in export markets.

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