Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

Companies in the top one-fifth of profitability earn, in aggregate, about 70 times more economic profit (accounting profit less cost of capital) than those in the middle three-fifths combined, according to McKinsey’s database of 3,000 large, publicly listed, nonfinancial U.S. companies have enjoyed supernormal rates of return.

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ROIC McKinsey GDP Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

If some of the buzz is any indication — and I believe it will be — it's a concept that will gain a lot of traction this year as more companies look for ways to better manage dwindling natural resources and more consumers demand action on environmental issues. That was totally different from any other point of view. That's right.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

That time came in 2010, reports The Guardian , when two aging Swedish financiers attended Freak Guitar summer camp in bucolic Härsjösand outside Gothenburg. What Really Happens When You Miss that Earnings Mark (McKinsey Quarterly). But McKinsey's analysis of hundreds of large U.S. THERE GOES THAT EXCUSE. Technology Review).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It helped spark new levels of interest in Africa by the international business community, and companies in a range of industries—from consumer goods to financial services to technology—have since expanded their African footprints. a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2000 to 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

Incomes are rising quickly in the world's most populous country: The percentage of the Chinese population earning between 10,000 and 24,000 renminbi a year (between US $1,200 and $3,500, in terms of 2010 exchange rates) rose from 11% in 2004 to 58% in 2010. According to a 2007 McKinsey & Co.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report , the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 Prior to 2010, Rakuten had been a multilingual global company. But in 2010, Rakuten mandated an English-only policy for its workforce of over 10,000 employees. Photo by Christine Roy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Two uncomfortable strategic truths face the vast majority of executives and companies – and probably you, too. Though both statements may sound extreme, they are the clear implication of new McKinsey research on how companies create value and allocate resources. First, you don’t have a powerful strategy. Execute decisively.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

In 2010, sales across categories such as jewelry, leather goods, and upmarket ready-to-wear clothing rose by 20% to reach $12.4 Smart companies have already realized this. Louis Vuitton stores deploy specialists who educate Chinese shoppers about the company's heritage and how it crafts leather goods by hand. Subtlety is chic.

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Deming McKinsey Fashion Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This admittedly controversial step comes after nearly a decade of attempts to induce companies to voluntarily boost the number of women in boardrooms and the higher ranks of businesses. Many companies are already putting admirable efforts and resources into strengthening a diverse pipeline of women and minorities. since 2010.

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Diversity McKinsey Incentives Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

A coaching client realized that he was running his company as though he were the “Doer-in-Chief,” and this model of leadership had permeated throughout the organization and was holding everyone back. They’re on the cusp of a big promotion, or they’ve launched a startup, or their company just hit some major milestone.

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Goleman Supply Chain Leadership Styles McKinsey 14

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. As of 2010, women held just 15.7

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Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

Driven by a fear of losing out, companies in many industries have announced AI-focused initiatives. They will fail not because AI is all hype, but because companies are approaching AI-driven innovation incorrectly. And this isn’t the first time companies have made this kind of mistake. the parent company of Google.)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Conventional wisdom might say that the recent departure of Marc Jacobs from Louis Vuitton is terrible news for the company. Between 2000 and 2010 Prada lost a lot of designers to competing fashion houses, yet its fashion collections were consistently rated as much more creative than the average. Prada is a case in point.

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Fashion Long-term McKinsey Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

In fact, 8 out of 10 times I can predict if companies will be successful. A 2010 McKinsey global survey of 2,512 executives found that, when the frontline experiences a sense of ownership of the necessary changes and are engaged in driving the change effort, the success rate rises to astonishing 79 percent.

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Management Resistance McKinsey Quality 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Do we see similar patterns when we look at company level—and particularly at multinationals that operate in multiple countries? Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift? There are indeed some indications that point in this direction.

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Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

In 2010, the U.N. The First Org Chart (McKinsey Quarterly). Using the New Sim City, Six Urban Planners Build the Perfect City (Sort of) (Fast Company). estimates, some $1.5 trillion in bribes wiped out more than 5% of global GDP. BONUS BITS: Worth a Thousand Words for Sure.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Do we see similar patterns when we look at company level—and particularly at multinationals that operate in multiple countries? Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift? There are indeed some indications that point in this direction.

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

companies will be at a disadvantage if we tax carbon or invest in clean energy because "China's not doing anything.". And it's just the latest in a series of Chinese commitments, which include the following: July 2010: 5 trillion yuan , or $800 billion, alternative energy plan over 10 years (this is like the part of the U.S.

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GDP Energy McKinsey Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. We exclude companies with a traditional CSR program that supports employee volunteering in the community – this does not by itself qualify as sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Young people were extremely eager to work for multinationals, to be associated with famous brand names, and to learn from the best companies in the world. The days when Goldman Sachs and McKinsey threw piles of money at overseas-educated returnees are long gone. Today, the “I will do my best” attitude still prevails.

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Globalization Operations McKinsey Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

The new era will give manufacturing companies an opportunity to help their host economies in all of those areas; it will create high-skill jobs, particularly in design, big data, and other service roles, but not masses of production-line positions. McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

More companies want far greater flexibility with far fewer people. A recent McKinsey & Co. The profound difference between today [2010] and 2005 is that good hires looked like better investments than great tweaks back then. In 2010, good tweaks look like better bets than even great hires.".

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Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

According to McKinsey, youth unemployment in Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria, is around 50%. Yes, in our work, from engineering to herbal medicine to craft, we have seen inventions — such as a local company that remakes automobile engines into electric power generators. In addition, Africa needs to develop its manpower.

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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. Given that companies are putting more than $14 billion a year into charitable causes, measuring results and ensuring real social impact should be important goals.

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Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

And, through linkages including supply chains (in 2009 multinationals purchased about $7 trillion in intermediate inputs from companies in America), multinationals enhance the performance of companies throughout the U.S. Despite decades of globalization, these companies remain predominantly U.S. A Shift Abroad.

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Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

What’s more, the recent McKinsey study on Greek competitiveness shows that the country’s biggest challenge has been a lack of investment. But the 2012 haircut only covered debt held by private creditors (including banks, insurance companies, and pension funds). The IMF, ECB, and EU own the rest. So what about that debt?

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Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Companies with a clear purpose include Patagonia, Ikea, Nike, and Southwest. In his McKinsey Award winning 2010 HBR Article, " How Will You Measure Your Life? She understands that her business has a purpose bigger than product, and that she is in pursuit of something more than just making money.

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Christensen McKinsey Short-term Goal 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

That's a concern for many companies, as a recent McKinsey survey highlights. In 2010, 20% of China's urban consumers spent more money than they did the previous year because they were first-time buyers; that figure dropped to just 5% in 2011, according to our survey. By 2010, its revenues had tripled to around $4.5

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Productivity Products McKinsey Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

I'm the CEO of Desso , a European company that makes carpets, carpet tiles and synthetic sports surfaces. A group of us bought the company from the Armstrong Group in a buy-out in 2007. We put our money in because we saw an opportunity to turn a struggling company around and secure a high ROI. 1] McKinsey & Co.,

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Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

You are an executive responsible for unearthing the next new market opportunity for your company and — like your competitors — you're looking at maps of rapidly-growing economies in the emerging world. Let's say that you work for a construction or a water services company. With a mystified stare, perhaps?

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GDP McKinsey Real Estate Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

During the past decade, the United States was the world’s largest recipient of foreign direct investment, with nearly $2 trillion invested in a range of sectors, companies, and workers across the country. According to our analysis , trade accounted for only 20% of net manufacturing job losses in the United States between 2000 and 2010.

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Globalization Participative Insurance Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

A recent study by my company, Weber Shandwick, shows that the proportion of women in top management teams in Global Fortune 100 companies is only 12.5%. Nearly three out of 10 companies in our Index have no women at all on their senior management teams (29%) and not a single one is gender-balanced.

Media 8

Media Globalization McKinsey CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

New research by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) finds that every U.S. And according to one study, the high teen birth rate is estimated to have cost the nation nearly $10 billion in 2010. Some companies are leading in this regard too. Half of U.S. These problems all hold women back from achieving their economic potential.

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GDP Policies McKinsey Politics 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. billion in the rest of Europe over the period 2010-2015. Engineers from the EU have been key to the successes of many UK companies.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Our companies have created it, expanded it, perfected it in ways that they can’t compete,” referring to the Europeans. tech companies. According to estimates by McKinsey , if France were to shift into a higher gear and equal the U.K.’s and China take the lead in tech innovation. position.

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8