Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 2022

On the flipside, CEOs whose companies rank in the top 20% of financial performance in their industries are generating 2.8 In fact, the extent to which the CEOs themselves are significant predictors of company performance is higher than at any point in history. That person, to his surprise, was the CEO of the company!

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CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 85

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. LFG has established itself as a powerful employer brand, and a company with a strong and stable culture. and a development manager at Oracle Corp.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

On the flipside, CEOs whose companies rank in the top 20% of financial performance in their industries are generating 2.8 In fact, the extent to which the CEOs themselves are significant predictors of company performance is higher than at any point in history. That person, to his surprise, was the CEO of the company!

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

On the flipside, CEOs whose companies rank in the top 20% of financial performance in their industries are generating 2.8 In fact, the extent to which the CEOs themselves are significant predictors of company performance is higher than at any point in history. That person, to his surprise, was the CEO of the company!

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Similarly, there are evident challenges in terms of market sophistication, with the country ranking 123rd in terms of ease of getting credit and general access to finance. For instance, the Global Innovation Index ranks the country just 117th in terms of ICT usage, with the general infrastructure ranked even worse.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The importance of migrants was underlined during the Covid-19 crisis when it was revealed that the founders of both BioNTech and Moderna, two of the companies at the forefront of the development of a vaccine against the virus, are immigrants to the United States and Germany respectively. This should perhaps come as no surprise.

Policies 95

Policies McKinsey Innovation Globalization 95

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In order to adapt to a climate charged by automation, market shifts, and globalization, companies need to evolve to meet changing priorities and conditions. It’s no longer the domain of tech companies, as industries from manufacturing to finance are entering a tech-driven phase. It’s the essence of agility.

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Agility Process Management McKinsey 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Performance measurement typically drives much of the way a large company works. Supplementing profits with ROIC and revenue growth is a step in the right direction to ensure that the profits a business earns are actually creating value, not simply over-consuming capital that another company could better deploy.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2019

Companies have to be consistent in their behaviour, from top to bottom, and right along the supply chain, from the ‘first hand of production to the final hand of the consumer’. The report went on to note “society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose”. And this genuinely has to go all the way.

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Supply Chain Brand Advertising PR 75

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A recent Mckinsey & Company survey shows that since 2015, America has seen only a modest growth in women’s well paid jobs representation in the corporate pipeline. Their work responsibilities include web design database development as well as designing a company’s IT approaches and strategies.

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Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

His company, Cultivating Creativity, LLC (cultivatingcreativity.net) helps other companies increase their ability to perform and adapt, by capitalizing on the creative potential of the talent they already have. McKinsey Quarterly (free subscription). This is guest post from Bob Lieberman. You can find more at [link].

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

His company, Cultivating Creativity, LLC (cultivatingcreativity.net) helps other companies increase their ability to perform and adapt, by capitalizing on the creative potential of the talent they already have. McKinsey Quarterly (free subscription). This is guest post from Bob Lieberman. You can find more at [link].

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Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 90

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 1, 2012

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs, and Bill Huyett John Wiley & Sons (2011) How executives can make much better decisions – “even as markets, economies, and industries change around them” All organizations need a solid foundation on which their executives can base their most important decisions about strategy, (..)

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. My own firm released a survey recently of 835 large companies (with an average revenue of $20 billion) that predicts a net job loss of between 4% and 7% in key business functions by the year 2020 due to AI. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

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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Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 13

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Tammy Erickson – McKinsey award-winning author. US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years. Liz Smith – Chairman and CEO, Bloomin’ Brands (Outback, Flemings, Carrabba’s, Bonefish Grill) – one of the world’s largest casual dining companies.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. Other large consumer companies are doing the same. The largest 25 food and beverage companies contributed only 0.1% Set your company up for success.

Company 8

Company Brand Venture Funding Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

How many software companies really make it big, at least in terms of revenue? McKinsey analyzed more than 3,000 software and online-services firms from a 22-year period, finding that fewer than a third reached $100 million in revenue growth. Only a handful of companies reached the elusive $4 billion mark.

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Software Company McKinsey Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., There has been no suggestion that Gupta betrayed any client confidences in his McKinsey days. from 1994 to 2003. These are not criminal charges.

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McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The 1990s saw the rise of the strategic CFO, and more recently many companies have created a chief strategy officer (CSO) position. Together, they have the stature to challenge and influence how the company makes decisions. Companies tend to be timid capital reallocators. There are two reasons for this.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

New reports from McKinsey and PwC paint a very bleak picture of C-suite succession practices in today’s corporations. PwC, meanwhile, calculated the economic cost of large global companies getting their most important C-suite appointment – CEO – wrong: well over $100 billion. Of course not. Dierdoff and Robert S.

Succession 8

Succession Human Capital McKinsey Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

If AI-guided investing can work for a person, can it also work for a company? Marketing and sales, manufacturing, recruiting (including people assessment), customer service, and support are all fields that can benefit from artificial intelligence according to McKinsey’s recent research. Companies are both operators and investors.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

” A quarter century later, not much seems to have changed: fewer than five out of the 100 CEOs on HBR’s 2014 list of best-performing CEOs even mention “return on capital” on their official biography — and none of those five lead companies listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or in the EuroStoxx50. .”

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

A McKinsey Global Institute study unveiled at e-G8 estimated that Internet economic output is bigger than Spain and growing faster than Brazil. Web-intensive SMEs grow twice as fast, export twice as much, and are more profitable than non-Web-enabled, the McKinsey study concluded. The economic potential is starting to be measured.

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McKinsey COO Technology CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

They are egged on by short-term shareholders, who care only about making a quick buck, rather than growing the company for the long term. A recent McKinsey study found that a “long-termism” index (including how much a firm invests) is correlated with future long-term stock returns, suggesting that long-termism pays off.

Price 8

Price CEO Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Finance Human resources' That needs to change.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

A coaching client realized that he was running his company as though he were the “Doer-in-Chief,” and this model of leadership had permeated throughout the organization and was holding everyone back. They’re on the cusp of a big promotion, or they’ve launched a startup, or their company just hit some major milestone.

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Goleman Supply Chain Leadership Styles McKinsey 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Social entrepreneurs are stultified by traditional forms of financing. There are new experiments — models that use the tools of finance to try things in different ways — sometimes creating income streams from novel concepts, like funding cancer research. Donations and grants don't allow them to innovate and grow.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Bond Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment.

Process 13

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

With the EU’s passage of the Circular Economy Package in April, many European companies are now facing mandates to reuse the products they create for as long as possible. Yet many companies face serious challenges when it comes to executing on a circular economy strategy. The Three Approaches.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). But companies should dice up the function even more finely.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Eastman Kodak is the textbook case for failing to prioritize an innovation agenda; business schools around the world study the ramifications of the company’s ill-fated decision to ignore the digital photography market until it was too late. How the best companies get up to speed. The consequences for not doing so can be dire.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Our companies have created it, expanded it, perfected it in ways that they can’t compete,” referring to the Europeans. tech companies. According to estimates by McKinsey , if France were to shift into a higher gear and equal the U.K.’s How has Europe dealt with the situation? government’s prying eyes.

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

It's powerful stuff that will continue to evolve and change the way that companies market to consumers and B2B customers. Companies are beginning to discover that social technology platforms provide a far more efficient way of communicating and collaborating. The total potential value at stake in these sectors is $900 billion to $1.3

Media 16

Media Productivity Products Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Companies do need assets like computers, servers, networks, and software, but those purchases are just the start. Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) looked at the state of digitization in sectors across the U.S. economy and found a large and growing gap between sectors, and between companies within those sectors.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

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