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. POWER TO THE PEOPLE. What Really Happens When You Miss that Earnings Mark (McKinsey Quarterly). But McKinsey's analysis of hundreds of large U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

For example, early efforts of companies developing chatbots for Facebook’s Messenger platform saw 70% failure rates in handling user requests. Recent research from McKinsey Global Institute found that 45% of work activities could potentially be automated by today’s technologies, and 80% of that is enabled by machine learning.

Insurance 10

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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. As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty.

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Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Entrepreneur Banking 8

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. They will not, it must be noted, alter how the role of manufacturing evolves as economies develop.

Globalization 9

Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 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. This, more than anything else, explains why Greece been unable to benefit from lower wage costs in developing its economy. The IMF, ECB, and EU own the rest. So what about that debt?

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

The fact is that medium-sized cities — many of them unknown outside their own countries — are going to be where the next wave of growth is coming from, as discussed in the McKinsey Global Institute report on cities and the rise of the consuming class (pdf). The urban opportunity is truly enormous. billion in 1990 to 4.2

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GDP McKinsey Real Estate Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

I first became interested when I watched a TV documentary on the Cradle-to-Cradle concept that was developed by the German chemistry Professor Michael Braungart (and ex-Greenpeace) and the US architect William McDonough. 1] McKinsey & Co., We chose a turnaround strategy built on a radical idea framed by a former Greenpeace activist.

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