Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

After Barbara Minto joined McKinsey as the firm's first ever female consultant, she found that many management consultants had trouble communicating information effectively. She developed the Minto Pyramid Principle to help colleagues structure their writing, and after gaining support within McKinsey, took the framework to other firms.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Practical leadership and management skills. Management education has changed significantly over the last few decades. As a result MBAs were often seen as bean-counters myopically focused on data and out of touch with the challenges managers face in the real world. How well-established are these courses?

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Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 20

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Which customers can’t participate in a market because they lack skills, wealth, or convenient access to existing solutions?

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Job placement matters, but a high placement rate is meaningless if the participant leaves after a week or if the job itself is temporary or doesn’t pay well. For the last two years we have been implementing Generation, a youth employment program that is part of the McKinsey Social Initiative. And accountability drives results.

Metrics 11

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

A 2015 McKinsey report on 366 public companies found that those in the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 35% more likely to have financial returns above their industry mean, and those in the top quartile for gender diversity were 15% more likely to have returns above the industry mean.

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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%. For example, the company had brought in a data scientist in 2008 to develop machine learning tools that would improve its search engine, Bing, in a market dominated by Google. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Related Video.

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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.

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Media Productivity Products Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

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. As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty.

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Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

According to the International Labor Organization , the global labor force participation rate for women stands at 47 percent. percent of senior managerial and directorial roles , according to McKinsey. African American women earn 60 cents for every dollar earned by a white, non-Hispanic man, while Latian women earn only 55 cents.

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HR Digest

APRIL 4, 2024

It gives them room to challenge the work format in the organization as well as approach their managers and bosses with difficult conversations instead of suppressing them. Participate in every stage of the execution process and if things don’t go smoothly, continue to understand the problem and consider your next step.

Innovation 52

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. A recent McKinsey & Co. Have people been commoditized?

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Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In most organizations, managers are the rivets that hold everything together. What's needed now are ways of integrating complex activities with little or no management overhead. What's needed now are ways of integrating complex activities with little or no management overhead. Managers are often the enforcers.

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Organization Supply Chain Decentralization Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The agendas may be inchoate and the uprisings chaotic, but the message is clear: the established way of leading, ruling, governing, and managing is not working anymore. If you want to derive all of the insight and benefits of inviting broad participation in charting your organization's future, it's not enough to just ask for ideas.

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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. Manne in his 1966 book, Insider Trading and the Stock Market. have centered on. insider trading by hedge funds.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

The Harvard Business Review 's mission is to improve the practice of management and its impact on a changing world. Led by Gary Hamel and supported by McKinsey & Company (along with a handful of like-minded organizations), the MIX is a web-based open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Three Levels of Management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. Beginner’s Management [Newbie or Management 1.0]. Fundamentals of being a manager : They ask “what needs to be done?”.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s no secret that organizations have been increasingly turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision making across business processes—from research and design to supply chain and risk management. Project management skills. A mastery of project management skills is a must.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

One of the driving principles of the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation is that everyone wins when everyone shares. We launched the Management 2.0 We launched the Management 2.0 When it comes to making an impact and accelerating change, it turns out that the how is as important as the what.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We announced the winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. According to Management 2.0 And no single leader, no matter how brilliant and gifted, can invent the future of his (or her) company alone. Paul Green, Jr.,

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Management How To Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.”

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