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. To do this, Goldman used its competencies in understanding markets, convening needed expertise and business networks. Talk about "results" without measuring them.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments. The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

A 2010 McKinsey study finds that across all industry sectors, companies with the most women on their boards of directors significantly and consistently outperform those with no female representation: by 41 percent in terms of return on equity and by 56 percent in terms of operating results. But should the U.S. What are your thoughts?

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15

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. Which customers can’t participate in a market because they lack skills, wealth, or convenient access to existing solutions? Speed alone is insufficient.

Innovation 11

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 11

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. And no matter how you interpret them, they come to two general conclusions: Males are aggressive; females are nurturing. Men are competitive, combative, and individually centered.

Self-aware 72

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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. For example, the company had brought in a data scientist in 2008 to develop machine learning tools that would improve its search engine, Bing, in a market dominated by Google. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

After Barbara Minto joined McKinsey as the firm's first ever female consultant, she found that many management consultants had trouble communicating information effectively. She developed the Minto Pyramid Principle to help colleagues structure their writing, and after gaining support within McKinsey, took the framework to other firms.

Minto 13

Minto How To McKinsey Software 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

New markets are created. Recently, we analyzed the performance of 750 large companies in the decade before 2008. Apple was the only incumbent in this period to grow by creating new markets repeatedly through disruptive innovation. Disruptive products and services are unleashed. What's not to like? Structure to execute.

Innovation 9

Innovation Incubator Disruptive Innovation McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Spun out of Carnegie Mellon’s materials science research department in 2008, Aquion now employs 130 workers, manufacturing batteries to store electricity generated by intermittent renewable resources. Ambition is crucial: Research from McKinsey finds that most low-performing research-intensive U.S.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering 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 Innovation'

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

First up was Galleon Group and its founder, Raj Rajaratnam, brought down in an investigation that also resulted in the conviction of former McKinsey chief and Goldman Sachs board member Rajat Gupta. Manne in his 1966 book, Insider Trading and the Stock Market. have centered on. insider trading by hedge funds.

Hedge 8

Hedge Handbook Crisis Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

” Companies measure the market results of their sales investments. Consider: The most common metrics for evaluating social media are likes, tweets, reviews, and click-through-rates (CTRs) for online ads — not cause-and-effect links between the medium and market results. There is justifiable skepticism about this data.

Media 8

Media Advertising Public Relations Forrester 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For many companies, a shrinking middle class means a shrinking top line, as their traditional consumer base migrates to the lower end of the market. Then in 2008, it acquired P&G's Folgers brand and made it the foundation of a new coffee division. Census Bureau, a record 46.2 But not for the J.M. Smucker Company.

Brand 13

Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 13

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. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. million jobs.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

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. The Shell Foundation provided HPS with market-based expertise and funding to help the company validate and scale its model.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

And Bain & Company’s analysis of the performance of nearly 100 Western firms with listed subsidiaries in emerging markets found that these companies increased their profits there by an average of 15 percent a year between 2005 and 2010—compared to 23 percent a year for comparable local companies.

Globalization 9

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. 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. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

And Bain & Company’s analysis of the performance of nearly 100 Western firms with listed subsidiaries in emerging markets found that these companies increased their profits there by an average of 15 percent a year between 2005 and 2010—compared to 23 percent a year for comparable local companies.

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

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

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. The firm with the best processes will win in most or all markets.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Twenty–30% of the working age population do some form of independent work, according to McKinsey’s Global Institute , and that share is growing rapidly. In 2008, the rate of job creation fell even further—below 1%—and has remained at that historically low level through 2015.

Katz 8

Katz Disaggregation McKinsey 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. public market capitalization over this period.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And a study of Kenya’s popular M-PESA mobile money service suggests that digital financial services can increase the participation of women in the workforce and create opportunities for women in the formal market economy.

Globalization 8

Globalization Participative Telecommunications Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

It began soon after the global financial crisis of 2008. According to World Bank data , merchandise trade grew from 16% of global GDP in 1990 to 26% by 2008. And, according to McKinsey & Company , cross-border data flows today are more than 20 times what they were in 2005. Similarly, at 33.6%

Merchandising 9

Merchandising GDP Supply Chain Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. The digital talent market in the UK is already tight. Scaling Up Will be Harder Without Common Platforms and a Single Market.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

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