Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

According to chairman and CEO Timothy Smucker, 67, who is now stepping down to hand the jars to his younger brother Richard, 63, "Volume gains in the fruit spreads category were supported by investments in advertising and product innovation." Then in 2008, it acquired P&G's Folgers brand and made it the foundation of a new coffee division.

Brand 13

Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 13

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 Innovation'

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 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. Fostering innovation. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Every two years, the Thinkers50 publishes their definitive list of management thinkers. Below are the results for 2011. For classic HBR content from this year’s winners, please click here. Christensen is the Kim B.

Christensen 75

Christensen Management Definition Content 75

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. We already know the answer: the kind of innovation that comes from collaboration, not competition. So what replaces competition, what drives growth today?

GDP 11

GDP Long-term Meyer Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Together with Harvard Business Review and the Management Innovation eXchange, we have issued a challenge calling for the most instructive case studies and provocative ideas that will help us re-imagine capitalism for the long term.

Marketing 11

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

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. In 2008 Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson wrote about their research on U.S. Some will succeed, and effective innovations will spread rapidly.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

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

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. This prescient piece won the McKinsey Award, given each year to the HBR article judged to be the most significant — the first of several that Garvin took home. That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author. Sound familiar?

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. These two challenges are at the heart of the Leaders Everywhere Challenge, the next stage of the HBR/McKinsey Management Prize.

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. Also out of reach: a €500 million network of digital innovation hubs and the Digital Agenda for Europe initiative (a €2.8

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Fifteen European countries have been losing momentum since 2008 in terms of their state of digital evolution – this is what we mean by a digital recession – with the Netherlands coming in dead last in our momentum rankings. and China take the lead in tech innovation. Investing in innovation capacity.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In 2008, as the CEO of a software company that had just missed its target for the second quarter in a row, I was so intent on hitting our fourth-quarter revenue number of $8 million — and so scared for my job — that I promised the company I would get a tattoo of the number somewhere on my body if we hit it. The result?

Strategy 8

Strategy Short-term Long-term Metrics 8