Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

In 2008, the Chinese government launched a four-year program to increase the penetration of consumer electronics in rural areas. In recent years, P&G has invested as much as 30% of R&D to develop products that fit the tastes and budgets of China's rural consumers. Its products often account for as much as 50-70% of a store's sales.

Marketing 12

Marketing Franchising Retail Budgeting 12

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners. Commit to developing and improving your social and emotional skill sets. Men are competitive, combative, and individually centered. And learn to collaborate while you lead.

Self-aware 72

Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Ask a lot of questions,” Linda advised me. You might think you are being annoying, but it’s the only way you learn.

Innovation 11

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

In fact, much evidence suggests that the market often gets it very wrong in the short term — with the most telling example being the 2008 financial crash itself. In short, they need to develop and contribute viewpoints to the market - not assume the market already contains them - and then be ready to stick to their guns.

Marketing 11

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

As Steve Davis, former lead in McKinsey's Social Innovation practice and president of the global health NGO, Path, has said: "The best social innovations are not necessarily widely adopted. Mobile Messaging: In early 2008, frog embarked on Project Masiluleke, a Public Private Partnership (PPP) to address HIV in South Africa.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

For example, a prescient report by McKinsey in 2005 showed that classified advertisement (the true driver of profitability for many newspaper companies) had decoupled from newspapers’ economic growth. billion), proclaiming McKinsey’s analysis “shallow and superficial.”.

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

In the few years since the financial crisis of 2008 hit us where it hurts, the calls for the "end of capitalism" have rung out from the streets and halls of power alike. Share your story or idea by entering the HBR/McKinsey Long-Term Capitalism Challenge. If you're rethinking what it means to win, we want to hear about it.

GDP 11

GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

There are indeed some indications that point in this direction.

Globalization 9

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

There are indeed some indications that point in this direction.

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

The result, at least in developed nations, is a highly unequal corporate landscape, where some firms are incredibly productive and the amount of money a person makes is tied to the company they work for, not just the job that they do. In 2008 Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson wrote about their research on U.S.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 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. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

computing and mathematical jobs are held by women, consistent with the data that around 26% of the STEM workforce in developed countries is female. In developing countries, those differences are even greater. in the least developed countries. No more than a quarter of U.S. But the gender gap problem doesn’t stop there.

Globalization 8

Globalization Participative Telecommunications Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Where I was unable to spell my own name or barely speak in 2008, I am now projecting revenue growth and cash flows in 2013." In longitudinal assessments conducted by The Fullbridge Program, graduates emerged "more developed, polished and professional." he explains. "So

EBITDA 10

EBITDA Human Resources McKinsey Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

McKinsey and Company reported similar findings from its Organizational Health Index as did Timothy Devinney at Australia’s University of Technology in a recent experiment. This is precisely what Howard Schultz achieved in 2008 when he pulled Starbucks’ highly profitable breakfast sandwiches from store shelves for nine months.

Strategy 8

Strategy Balanced Scorecard Sull Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Case closed (until engineers develop an algorithm that does the job better). That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Tellingly, only five of the 30 CEOs Barron's picked in 2008 as the world's best showed up on a similar list in 2012. In most organizations, the responsibility for setting direction, developing strategy and allocating resources is highly centralized.

P&L 8

P&L Supply Chain Bottom-up McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

According to estimates by McKinsey , if France (for example) were to shift into a higher gear and equal the UK’s digital state, its hypothetical economic gain could be about €100 billion. These are real concerns for the UK economy overall as the tech sector accounts for around 10% of British GDP.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8