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 14

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

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

MAY 15, 2015

New reports from McKinsey and PwC paint a very bleak picture of C-suite succession practices in today’s corporations. Both consultancies have useful advice to help fix the problem: McKinsey describes how to set up effective integration plans, while PwC describes best practices for CEO transitions. Of course not.

Succession 8

Succession Human Capital McKinsey Committee 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.

McKinsey 16

McKinsey COO Technology CEO 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

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. It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance. ZB by 2020.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

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. This is taught in any Finance 101 class, and is presumably what McKinsey advises its clients. So does short-termism exist?

Price 8

Price CEO Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

A 2012 McKinsey Report shows that over a 15 year period companies that shifted more than 56% of their capital across their business units during that period delivered annual return to shareholders that were a third higher than those delivered by companies that allocated roughly the same amount of capital per unit as they had the previous year.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

McKinsey and Bloomberg New Energy Finance have estimated that in 50 metropolitan areas worldwide, a rapid transition to advanced mobility systems could yield $600 billion in societal benefits through 2030. Such improvements could help cut the costs of traffic congestion ( about 1% of GDP globally ), road accidents ( 1.25

Transportation 11

Transportation Technology GDP Policies 11

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' Bring on the quants.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

Most executives teams are surprisingly weak when it comes to strategy thinking, note Michael Birshan and Jayanti Kar in McKinsey Quarterly. Finance Needs Stewards, Not Toll Collectors (John Kay). Some leaders reach the C-suite because of functional expertise. Others are stronger on execution than on strategic thinking.

Strategy 13

Strategy CIO McKinsey Industry 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. Some 51% of our AI leaders predicted that by 2020 AI will have its biggest internal impact on their back-office functions of IT and finance/accounting; only 34% of AI followers said the same thing.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

As research for an upcoming book with Harvard Business Review Press, my colleagues and I have been interviewing entrepreneurs and business builders about the factors that drive success. After two years at McKinsey, I co-founded a venture capital firm in Canada, moved on to a couple startups here in the Valley, and then ended up at Google.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur McKinsey Technology Career 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

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

Industry 12

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

By 2018, the United States alone could face a shortage of as many as 190,000 people with deep analytical skills according to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute. The Talent Gap in Big Data. The study also found a looming need for over 1.5 million managers and analysts who understand big data and how to apply it to business operations.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology McKinsey Globalization 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.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

One of the quickest ways to sort innovation ideas is to use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model. The framework has the team talking not just to potential customers but also with regulators, and people responsible for legal, policy, finance, support.

Process 13

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other aspects of organizational life. Practical leadership and management skills. Management education has changed significantly over the last few decades.

Supply Chain 19

Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 19

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). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

This emphasis on leading and not merely doing has had a profound impact on management education.

Goleman 14

Goleman Supply Chain Leadership Styles McKinsey 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute explores this new era of digital globalization. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 trillion in 2014 alone.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

We isolated seven performance factors correlated to strong organizational performance as well as leadership strengths through IBM Watson’s content analysis tools as well as historical performance reviews of these leaders and their direct reports. Making good decisions seems to be a comparatively rare skill.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

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. India’s finance ministry has proposed such an approach to the central bank.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

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.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

percent of senior managerial and directorial roles , according to McKinsey. The gathered data needs to be reviewed in detail. External Audit Consider engaging external consultants or auditors to conduct an independent review of your pay equity analysis as internal resources for a complete evaluation might be insufficient.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

First up was Galleon Group and its founder, Raj Rajaratnam, brought down in an investigation that also resulted in the conviction of former McKinsey chief and Goldman Sachs board member Rajat Gupta. Ethics Finance Government' have centered on. insider trading by hedge funds. Since then, Preet Bharara, the U.S.

Hedge 8

Hedge Handbook Crisis Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Banks are feeling the crunch; according to McKinsey , legacy financial institutions will see profits decline 20%–60% by 2025 if they fail to evolve digitally. The current innovation model in the finance sector is designed to generate the highest possible short-term returns. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

Industry 12

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are the management models here. They’re constantly driving data-driven reviews and making recommendations. Academic computational finance researchers and fund managers alike tell me their machines frequently make trades and investments that the humans literally and cognitively do not understand.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

Based on numerous case studies and in-depth research in four sectors (consumer packaged goods, consumer finance, professional services, and advanced manufacturing), McKinsey Global Institute analyzed the potential value that could be obtained through the use of social technologies. trillion annually.

Media 15

Media Productivity Products Technology 15

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. That’s quite a mismatch. It’s hard to imagine that a success rate that low would be tolerated in any other business function.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

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 the trend here is clear: Though Goldman Sachs and McKinsey were the top choices for Ivy League graduates five years ago, tech start-ups have now taken that place.

Trends 9

Trends McKinsey Career Marketing 9

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 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. A McKinsey global survey notes that CEOs spend about 17% of their time with customers. Other large consumer companies are doing the same.

Company 8

Company Brand Venture Funding Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

True, to the surprise of many analysts, the prime minister, Antonis Samaras, abandoned his earlier populist rhetoric and tried to sort out public finances. The Harvard MBA graduate will need all the skills developed as a McKinsey consultant and a Venture Capital executive — and then some.

Politics 8

Politics Restructuring Crisis McKinsey 8

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 Policies Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

What’s more, the recent McKinsey study on Greek competitiveness shows that the country’s biggest challenge has been a lack of investment. Although former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis made eloquent appeals about the need to rethink macro, he said very little about changing how the economy is run.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

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. For most governments, financing the global goals campaigns will be a stretch; governments have already reneged in the past on commitments for similar targets.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

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. These concerns can be heard in many places: the sobering survey by Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin in HBR's special March issue on U.S.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9