Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

So in 2010, I started this foundation and coined the "circular economy" term to help frame the concept. The whole circular concept sounds daunting — there's quite a bit involved with an approach like that: reverse logistics, cost incursions, consumer awareness. Energy costs are a huge concern for car manufacturers.

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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. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

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. The costs of inaction are rising, which brings me to. stimulus plan that funded clean tech, but times 10). One of Sen.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. McKinsey has identified more than 20 distinct submarkets in China, for example. Innovations Are Changing The Way We Design Products.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Besides the short-term costs of such a move, history shows us that Greece has never managed to benefit from currency devaluations. What’s more, the recent McKinsey study on Greek competitiveness shows that the country’s biggest challenge has been a lack of investment. The IMF, ECB, and EU own the rest.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

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.". And higher education isn''t offering the human capital cure.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

based multinationals are shifting jobs to lower-cost labor in foreign subsidiaries, the trends in employment warrant special attention. businesses appear to be the result of both labor-saving technological changes and the outsourcing of parts of production to independent contractors in low-cost foreign locations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

According to McKinsey, youth unemployment in Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria, is around 50%. Providing power, roads, post offices, airports, and seaports will cut the cost of doing business. As of 2010, only 3% of Africa’s population attended post-secondary education (PDF).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

But there our story deviates from the norm because our turnaround wasn't based on cost control, financial leverage, or manufacturing efficiencies. Our numbers seem to be moving that way: our annual earnings (EBIT on a normalized basis) increased from 1% of sales in 2007 to 9% in 2010 in our original carpet business. 1] McKinsey & Co.,

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

Ignoring the very real costs of trade and globalization is not only counterproductive but indefensible. According to our analysis , trade accounted for only 20% of net manufacturing job losses in the United States between 2000 and 2010. That doesn’t mean we should keep doing the same old things.

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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. state and city could add at least 5% to GDP by 2025 by advancing the economic potential of women. Half of U.S. One in four U.S.

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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. billion as compared to $4.4 Decision-Making Will Be Held Hostage to Uncertainty.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

While 44% of EU residents shopped online in 2014, a paltry 15% bought from another member state; barely up by six and a half percentage points since 2010, according to the European Commission’s (EC) “Digital Agenda Scoreboard 2015.” ’s digital state, its total economic gain could be to the tune of Eur 100 billion.

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