Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability. It’s time for sustainability to be a real goal for businesses striving to ensure a competitive future. Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Co. Business Leaders Want to Stay in the Paris Climate Accord. by Andrew Winston. by Tensie Whelan and Carly Fink. Marc Benioff.

Project 8

Project Henderson Supply Chain Short-term 8

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. While men are singlemindedly focused on meeting linear goals, women are building bridges that may serve them in the future. Men are competitive, combative, and individually centered.

Self-aware 72

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

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Aspiring to double revenues by 2020 may be a terrific stretch goal, but it is not a strategy. Do you have ideas or case studies to share on how to make innovation an everywhere, all-the-time capability? They understand at a granular level where growth came from in the past and where it is likely to come from in future.

Innovation 9

Innovation Incubator Disruptive Innovation McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Sesame Street , in fact, is a great case study of a brand that has managed to remain powerful over decades and across cultures. At the same time, we wanted to enable our co-producing partners to work with local educators, writers, and producers to craft the specific early childhood educational goals unique to their own countries.

Globalization 8

Globalization Power Workshop Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Together with Harvard Business Review and the Management Innovation eXchange, we have issued a challenge calling for the most instructive case studies and provocative ideas that will help us re-imagine capitalism for the long term. This is the way both to achieve higher returns and make the market more efficient.

Marketing 11

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

A Case Study of Digital Catch-up in the ASEAN. According to a 2014 McKinsey report , the number of consuming households — i.e., households with annual income greater than $7,500 in purchasing power parity (PPP) — in the region is projected to double, to 125 million, by 2025.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Policies Globalization Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

That's why the MIX is eager to announce the third leg of the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Innovation — the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge. How could we embed social goals into an organization's innovation agenda and processes?

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term Ethics Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2015

McKinsey points out that social media is a great place for B2B marketers to uncover early intelligence on competitor developments and on customer problems, needs, and beliefs. Identify your key audience and goals to achieve. They can also respond to questions and influence the emotional reaction to their brand.

B2B 8

B2B Media B2C Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The agency, which provides health care to approximately 9 million veterans at over 1,700 locations, had set a top-down goal to increase the percentage of veterans who were seen within 14 days of requesting an appointment. The crisis that emerged in the Phoenix VA was triggered by the pursuit of a 14-day wait time goal for all appointments.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

We asked for real-world case studies and bold new ideas that will help us make innovation a deep-rooted, systematic competence in every kind of organization. The goal was to excise the irregularities, in an effort to ensure conformance to work rules, quality standards, timetables and budgets.

Innovation 8

Innovation Armstrong Construction McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal. Story by Juan Carlos Rojas Serrano, DaviPlata. Congratulations, all!

Organization 14

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 14