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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business Review

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. FCLT and McKinsey rely on readily available and machine-readable accounting data to measure myopia. R&D spending.

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business Review

USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency. These overlooked roles are: Essential experts.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., There has been no suggestion that Gupta betrayed any client confidences in his McKinsey days. from 1994 to 2003. These are not criminal charges.

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Three Cases of Better Corporate Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

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. It measures and holds itself accountable for changes in the way that teachers use information and communications technology in the classroom.

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Priorities for Jumpstarting the U.S. Industrial Economy

Harvard Business Review

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. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Will robo-advisors disrupt corporate capital allocation the same way they have personal capital allocation? will grow to U.S. $5

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How to Make Your Big Idea Really Happen

Harvard Business Review

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.

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