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Three Cases of Better Corporate Philanthropy

Harvard Business Review

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business.

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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

For example, a prescient report by McKinsey in 2005 showed that classified advertisement (the true driver of profitability for many newspaper companies) had decoupled from newspapers’ economic growth. billion), proclaiming McKinsey’s analysis “shallow and superficial.”. Disruptive innovation Innovation'