Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

Authors Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga and Georges Desvaux of McKinsey and Company, take a different view in Africa’s Business Revolution. There are one-hundred companies with annual revenues of a billion dollars or more. Develop programs to grow talent from within and make gender diversity a priority. Turnover is high.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2016

The call for greater diversity at senior leadership levels is not new, although it has itself become more inclusive, extending beyond gender, race and ethnicity, to encompass age, education, socioeconomic background and sexual orientation, as well as experience, skills and talent. iii Progress has been made, but slowly and inconsistently.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 27, 2018

This has inspired a projection that the global human resource management sector could reach $30 billion in the next six years – by 2025, according to G2 Crowd. Employees are progressively looking forward to working for companies that go beyond paying good salaries and offer attractive benefits. That takes us to the next HR trend.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 25, 2022

Great for timely leadership insights from executives and experts with a global focus. Executives and experts from around the world regularly contribute, reflecting the business school’s global presence across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North America. Great for globally-focused management and business research insights.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 12, 2019

A McKinsey article published in April 2018, for example says that AI ‘creates space and time to think by filtering the signal from the noise’. She is also founder and MD of Aroka Ltd which she has run globally for the past 11 years. Many see AI as a threat but it’s also an amazing opportunity.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2012

When McKinsey & Co. asked senior executives at 60 big companies recently why they are trying to advance women, "they laughed at us," says Dominic Barton, McKinsey's global managing director. The McKinsey study shows women in general opt at far higher rates than men for staff jobs, sometimes labeled "the pink ghetto."

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Amidst all the revenue numbers and share valuations that companies wear as a badge of honor, the concept of employee relationship management has emerged as another undeniable sign of a successful organization. The UAW is also set to repeat history against Detroit’s Big Three automotive companies if their demands are not met.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. Tammy Erickson – McKinsey award-winning author. Mark Tercek – President and CEO, Nature Conservancy – world leader in global conservation. World Economic Forum – Global Leader for Tomorrow. 100 COACHES.

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APRIL 1, 2022

Every company needs a corporate purpose. want the companies they work for and buy from to have a purpose greater than profit or shareholder value. A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. Mission: Why does your company exist?

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APRIL 1, 2022

Every company needs a corporate purpose. want the companies they work for and buy from to have a purpose greater than profit or shareholder value. . A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. Vision: Where is it going?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision. In a global analysis of 2,400 companies conducted by Credit Suisse, organizations with at least one female board member yielded higher return on equity and higher net income growth than those that did not have any women on the board.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The debate about superstar firms and superstar effects has been intensifying, partly in response to the rapid growth of global US tech companies. In our recent research at the McKinsey Global Institute, we examined the superstar phenomenon across firms, as well as sectors and cities. Wider dynamics may be at play.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report , the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 The result is likely to be intensified global competition for talent. Prior to 2010, Rakuten had been a multilingual global company. Photo by Christine Roy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

The global manufacturing sector is on the threshold of a dynamic new phase that will provide renewed opportunity for manufacturing firms — and a host of new challenges. We see two forces that will dominate global manufacturing in the coming decade. These forces will shift the dynamics of the global manufacturing sector.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

The ability to acquire and develop multicultural talent is becoming a critical competitive advantage for multinational and national companies alike. Companies increasingly expect multicultural experience as a required attribute of managerial and executive talent. Find environments that encourage global development.

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Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 26, 2019

Hiring veterans may represent a strategic advantage for companies in many sectors where there continues to be a serious shortage of competent leaders. These data suggest that many industries may enhance their leader bench strength by recruiting and hiring more veterans for key leadership roles.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Long before "think global, act local" was the conventional wisdom for how corporations should operate in the international interconnected marketplace, we at Children's Television Workshop (CTW), as it was known then, pioneered the development of a flexible global brand. million (or 67% of its population) gaining access to mass media.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

To this end, McKinsey conducted extensive qualitative and quantitative research of more than 2,400 interviewees. This research was done in the context of McKinsey and Facebook’s partnership to launch a program called TechPrep. The Global Digital Economy. What companies can do. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

The World Economic Forum’s recent Global Gender Gap Report 2015 gives us a wealth of detail about the continued worldwide imbalance in gender equality and what it means for the future. On a macro level, a recent report from McKinsey Global Institute estimated that $12 trillion can be added to global growth by advancing gender equality.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

As companies struggle to develop a new generation of internationally competent leaders, many are turning to localization instead. Giving up on expatriation implies giving up on building the diverse bench of global leaders that CEOs say they require," he writes. Super-Green Companies Make Tempting Targets (HBS Working Knowledge).

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close and companies begin to settle on the wages and hikes for the next year, the question of how to create an equitable compensation system might flash in everyone’s mind—if briefly. Add in more diverse identities and the disparity becomes even more apparent. percent of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

According to McKinsey & Company , research of the largest US corporations shows that 62% of women are in staff jobs — positions that provide service and assistance but don't directly generate revenue. This helps explain why the number of women CEOs in Fortune 500 companies appears stuck around 3%.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

To do “what it really takes to become a company employees love” requires leaders to ask, “What kind of love do we really want from people?” But the question deserves better than executive hand-offs to HR, McKinsey, or Myers-Briggs. How to Be a Company That Employees Love. Insight Center. References.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

I once hired a McKinsey consultant into a country manager role in a developing region. Two years later, despite great success, he told me he wanted to find a job at another company in his home country. He did and was soon appointed to manage the company's entire international business from headquarters. You can't do it alone.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Volatility has returned to global markets, and consumer and business confidence is once again slipping. Happily, more and more companies are moving this way: Over the last decade 20% of publicly listed companies in the U.S. Taking a long view doesn't mean companies should go radio-silent. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Many companies, big and small, are examining their own commitments to sustainability in light of America’s shift. Short-term rewards too often take precedence over the longer-term interests and viability of a company. They will help us answer questions like: How does sustainability fit into a company’s strategy?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meet the New Face of Diversity: The “Slacker” Millennial Guy. McKinsey may have been hired in 2013 by the Vatican, the Bank of England, and the owners of the Rangers and Knicks, but they’re also acting to stave off threats to their business model. In the Company of Givers and Takers. Why Men Work So Many Hours.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

79% of companies use, or are imminently planning to use, social media. Nearly half of the companies who were rated as “effective” in social media said it was integral to the company strategy. 52% of executives say that social business is important to their companies today. McKinsey 2012, Digital and Executive challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Companies are human systems with patterns, habits and mindsets that have evolved over time. One gender’s rules dominate the game in most companies, because they created it in their image over the past 10 or 150 years. It’s the cultures that need to change. He is gender-balancing by design, almost from the start.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support. Advanced industries are our most globally competitive industries, accounting for a full two-thirds of U.S. They employ 12.3 Yet, there is a problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Nearly 40 percent of the 312 CFOs and other executives participating in Deloitte’s 2013 Global Finance Talent Survey said they are either “barely able” or “unable” to meet the demand for the talent required to run their organizations. Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

As Steve Davis, former lead in McKinsey's Social Innovation practice and president of the global health NGO, Path, has said: "The best social innovations are not necessarily widely adopted. The Shell Foundation provided HPS with market-based expertise and funding to help the company validate and scale its model.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

It is home to more fast-growing economies than any other region, hundreds of successful big companies, and an urbanizing consumer market whose spending outstrips that of India. How can companies navigate Africa’s many challenges and translate its growth trends into profitable, sustainable enterprises? lucydphoto/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Like a lot of young digital companies in the U.S., there is little evidence that they harness knowledge in fast-growing global centers of excellence such as Bangalore or Tel Aviv. However, in order to grow, companies need to draw on the world’s best knowledge, wherever it lives geographically. New tools and strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

More recently, however, companies have widened their aperture, recognizing that success with AI and analytics requires not just data scientists but entire cross-functional, agile teams that include data engineers, data architects, data-visualization experts, and—perhaps most important—translators. What does a translator do?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Despite more evidence about the benefits of the increasing the number women on boards (such as better decision making ), and mounting pressure from groups like State Street Global Advisers and Blackrock to do so, the data suggest it will take until the end of 2055 to have board parity in the U.S. if we continue at the current rate.

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