Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

Take the mindset of “be bold”, for example. Have they redirected time, energy, talent, and finances away from lower priority pursuits towards taking these actions? Viewed through this lens, we hope any leader will find it helpful. Are they taking actions that are unquestionably big “needle movers”?

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2019

This isn’t a marketing issue, this is a business-wide issue, involving every facet of the organisation, hence leadership being so important. He is a lecturer at the University of the Arts London, and has written for Dazed, Admap, Brand Strategy, Marketing and Contagious.

Supply Chain 76

Supply Chain Brand Advertising PR 76

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Take the mindset of “be bold”, for example. Have they redirected time, energy, talent, and finances away from lower priority pursuits towards taking these actions? Viewed through this lens, we hope any leader will find it helpful. Are they taking actions that are unquestionably big “needle movers”?

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In contrast to startups, which often experiment until they gain their footing in the market, established businesses are notoriously slow to change. In order to adapt to a climate charged by automation, market shifts, and globalization, companies need to evolve to meet changing priorities and conditions. Adjust strategies to meet goals.

Agility 51

Agility Process Management McKinsey 51

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. For example, only 2% are using artificial intelligence to monitor internal legal compliance, and only 3% to detect procurement fraud (e.g., “Machine-to-machine” transactions are the low-hanging fruit of AI, not people-displacement.

Company 10

Company Survey Finance Engineering 10

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.

McKinsey 13

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In our experience at McKinsey, creating this ideal partnership usually requires the CFO to become more directly and deeply involved in strategy development. First, the finance chief is often first among equals on the board of directors and can help engage the board more productively on strategy. There are two reasons for this.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

It’s easy to see what countries think they have to gain in these efforts: The Ellen MacArthur Foundation , McKinsey , and Accenture believe that enabling CEs will lead to trillions of dollars in savings and is a particularly significant step in protecting the environment.

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Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

By ignoring the distribution, that statistic masks a more important trend: As the McKinsey Global Institute has documented , variance in corporate earnings has increased substantially as well. For an extreme example, take Chobani. As McKinsey’s researchers write in their report : The most digitized sectors in the U.S.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Social entrepreneurs are stultified by traditional forms of financing. They have virtually no access to capital markets and little flexibility to experiment at various stages of growth. We live in a world awash with capital — some $200 trillion in financial assets according to McKinsey & Company.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Bond Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. IBM research , for example, has consistently made breakthroughs in a number of fields long before their commercial value became clear.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. million jobs.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

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. The Future of Financial Services. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

Industry 9

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Founded only last year by a team of current MBA students, HourlyNerd is a prime example of the disruption in consulting that my co-authors and I discuss in our new article , “Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption” in HBR. Eden McCallum , for example, is a U.K. based consulting firm started by a pair of McKinsey alumni.

McCallum 8

McCallum Consultative Disruptive Innovation Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

billion consumers around the globe have an account on a social networking site and almost one in five online hours is spent on social networks), marketing departments have increasingly shifted their attention to social media. With consumers spending gobs of time in online communities ( more than 1.5 trillion annually. trillion annually.

Media 15

Media Productivity Products Technology 15

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 8

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 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). Examples include payroll, benefits, risk and compliance, and labor relations.

Human Capital 10

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Something astonishing is happening to the market for young, smart labor. In an opinion piece , Deloitte CEO Barry Salzberg says that millennials are increasingly thinking of finance, consulting, and corporate jobs as a "a tragedy of wasted minds." But start-ups do more than just good marketing. Where are all these people going?

Trends 8

Trends McKinsey Career Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) looked at the state of digitization in sectors across the U.S. Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. public market capitalization over this period.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

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. According to Forbes, 58% of startups successfully figure out a clear market need for what they have. Other large consumer companies are doing the same. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Brand Venture Funding Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Well, Angelia, according to a recent study by McKinsey, over $1.3 What they realize is that they’ve always treated finance and financial management as a tier-one asset. And then you think about how new entrants come into the market. What do you mean by that term? What’s behind it? Alex Shootman, Workfront.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. Others looked up to her for the example she set. It was just the industry and firm norm.

Team 9

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 9

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.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Budgeting Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S. multinationals by the McKinsey Global Institute. Foreign expansion can fuel employment growth at home in areas like manufacturing, logistics, R&D, design, marketing, finance, and management. But to spark that growth, U.S.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9