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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Filled with in-depth insights from experts at McKinsey & Company, this reliable resource takes a much more qualitative approach to what the authors consider a lost art. They might include sales productivity metrics such as market share, the company’s ability to charge premium prices relative to peers, or sales force productivity.

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Emerging Demographics Are the New Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

For example, people aged over 50 bought nearly two-thirds of the new cars sold in the United States in 2011. McKinsey Glog research finds that China is expected to spend 12.5% By 2011, this share was more than 45%. of all consumption growth on education for those under 30 — higher than any other country apart from Sweden.

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Most Industries Are Nowhere Close to Realizing the Potential of Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

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The Peanut Butter and Jelly Approach to Growth

Harvard Business Review

For 2011, it all added up to $4.8 According to chairman and CEO Timothy Smucker, 67, who is now stepping down to hand the jars to his younger brother Richard, 63, "Volume gains in the fruit spreads category were supported by investments in advertising and product innovation." billion in sales. That's a lot of PB&J.

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What Management 2.0 Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

In this first leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation , we asked the most progressive thinkers and radical doers from every realm of endeavor to share a story, a hack, a disruptive idea, or an experimental design that illustrates how the web can help overcome the limits of conventional management and create Management 2.0.

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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The question is whether TFA's seemingly prolific production of entrepreneurs is fact or simple hearsay. The answer appears to be yes.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

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. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate.