First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Michiel Kruyt, Judy Malan, and Rachel Tuffield and featured by The McKinsey Quarterly online (February 2011).

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 9, 2011

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Derek Dean and Caroline Webb for The McKinsey Quarterly (January 2011).

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Information McKinsey Creativity Article 93

Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 19, 2011

January 19th, 2011 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Today’s guest post is from Mike Figliuolo at The thoughtLEADERS Blog. He has been a tank platoon leader, a McKinsey consultant, a senior executive, and now runs thoughtLEADERS – a leadership development and training firm. Mary Jo Asmus : January 19, 2011 at 9:20 pm Gina, thanks.

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Training Blog Maslow Greenleaf 257

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

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. Copyright (c) 2011. Richard Dobbs is a director of the McKinsey Global Institute, the firm’s business and economics research arm. About the Authors.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Consider three critical mega-trends: resource constraints and rising commodity prices; climate change and extreme weather; and radical, technology-driven transparency. Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff. Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff. Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. And no matter how you interpret them, they come to two general conclusions: Males are aggressive; females are nurturing.

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Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

A decade on, in January 2011, The Economist has revised its dark vision, calling Africa's countries " The Lion Kings.". Fueled by Asia's resource needs, Africa has seen rapid compounded real growth — rates exceeding 5% a year (per IMF data) — over the past decade.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4%

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

Both cite a McKinsey survey which, ironically, found that “Organizations’ efforts to go digital. Another McKinsey survey , conducted in 2011, found then that the average company with more than 1,000 employees already had more data in its CRM system than in the entire Library of Congress. are picking up steam.”

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Media McKinsey ROI CRM 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

France introduced quotas in January 2011, and in one year, the number of women on boards took a grand jeté of 10 percentage points to 22%. Many companies are already putting admirable efforts and resources into strengthening a diverse pipeline of women and minorities. Government can — and should — help bridge the breach.

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Diversity McKinsey Incentives Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

The next most-represented originating organizations--the San Francisco Public Schools, Newark Public Schools, Chicago Public Schools, Americorps, the White House Fellow program, McKinsey and Company, and the United States Department of Education--each appeared in the work history of a founder of two (or about 4%) of these organizations.

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Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

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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Minto How To McKinsey Software 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A McKinsey study released in May 2011 stated that, by using Big Data to the fullest, retailers stood to increase their operating margins by up to 60% — this, in an industry where net profit margins are often less than 2%. Not every retailer, however, has the resources to keep up with sophisticated use of data.

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leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

They need to be resourceful in developing homegrown skills. McKinsey 2012, Digital and Executive challenges. Prior to launching North Star, he spent 17 years with PepsiCo, retiring in 2011 as SVP and CCO for Pepsi Beverages. __. Let’s be honest. In search of more communication tips? Subscribe to our blog, today!'

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Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Rahul and Noelle both made the transition into public service through Fuse Corps—a social sector start-up launched in 2011 with the support of companies like McKinsey, GE, and Starbucks to provide a pathway for talented professionals who wish to contribute to the public sector but don’t know where to begin.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

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. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Our economic growth is dependent on access to cheap raw materials, and those resources are getting scarcer and more expensive. The McKinsey Global Institute reports that price volatility has hit a high , second only to the energy crisis of the 1970s. Some businesses are already adapting. Recycling Won't Get You Far.

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Resources McKinsey Globalization Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

We all know in theory that as the world's population grows we will need to become much smarter in our use of natural resources. trillion in savings globally from improved resource productivity. trillion in savings globally from improved resource productivity. 1] McKinsey & Co., All this translates into hard cash.

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Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 11

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.

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Productivity Products McKinsey Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

population growth between 2011 and 2050. If employee resource groups exist, ask for feedback about retention or mentoring. A study by McKinsey & Company found that organizations ranked in the top quartile of racial diversity are 35% more likely to earn above-average financial returns. And be prepared for some harsh truths.

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Management Diversity Self-aware Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Given these challenges, it’s surprising to see younger firms trying to grow by tapping the same R&D resources that fueled their initial successes. A 2011 McKinsey study showed that smaller and younger firms are wary of global R&D plays. Like a lot of young digital companies in the U.S.,

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

They explored data across 28 different industries in 17 countries over a period spanning 1970 to 2011, during which 71 economic recoveries occurred. It looked at the role technology plays in economic recoveries, both in terms of economic growth and the number of jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A 2011 McKinsey study estimated that the internet accounted for 21% of GDP growth over the previous five years among the developed countries studied, a sharp increase over the 10% contribution over the 15 years prior. Consider some sobering analysis from McKinsey based on an analysis of over 750 occupations.

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Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 9