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.

Minto 13

Minto How To McKinsey Software 13

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?

Innovation 11

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 11

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

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. To do this, Goldman used its competencies in understanding markets, convening needed expertise and business networks. Back pet charities, not those with a strong track record.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

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.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Price Sharpe 8

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.

Metrics 10

Metrics TCO Training Cost-Benefit Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

New research by the McKinsey Global institute suggests that roughly 15% of the global workforce could be displaced by 2030 in a midpoint scenario, but that the jobs likely created will make up for those lost. Its labor participation rate has risen by 10 percentage points since reunification, to above the U.S. It will take time.

GDP 8

GDP Globalization Short-term 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, 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. That was the year Bing became a profitable business for Microsoft.)

Company 11

Company Survey Finance Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

As a coach I have two different “markets”—my students at Stanford and my private clients, who are primarily senior leaders, and in both settings my degree sends a useful signal. So ask yourself: What market am I in now? What markets might I seek to enter in the future? How are MBAs perceived in these markets?

Supply Chain 18

Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 18

HR Digest

APRIL 4, 2024

Creating an experimental workplace culture involves combining elements that don’t traditionally go together and see if the company can find an angle or a market niche that has not been explored before. As fantastical as it sounds, it isn’t impossible to foster such a culture of experimentation.

Innovation 52

Innovation Project McKinsey Learning-by-Doing 52

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. Be an active market player to plan out how to create an equitable compensation system. percent of the U.S.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

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

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?

Human Capital 8

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role. Bring on the quants.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The power of redistributing power came home to Whitehurst (and his fellow Delta alum Jackie Yeaney, head of strategy and marketing at Red Hat) in the course of introducing a formal strategic planning process to the fast-growing company. Don't just invite people to the table — involve them in the most important work.

COO 11

COO Learning-by-Doing Bureaucracy Strategy 11

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.

Hedge 8

Hedge Handbook Crisis Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

According to McKinsey, youth unemployment in Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria, is around 50%. But participants are poorly trained and produce low quality products. The sector needs modernization, and must deploy computer-aided-design tools to enhance quality and automate production for scale to win markets.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Hence The Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. Are there ways of combining the freedom and flexibility advantages of markets with the control and coordination advantages of traditional hierarchies? Learn more about participating in the challenge at the MIX.

Organization 9

Organization Supply Chain Decentralization Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are the management models here. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software. That was the challenge. The Autonomous/Autonomy Advisor.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

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. And, to participate in the M-Prize, you just have to register for the MIX. You can find more details on the rules of play here.).

McKinsey 11

McKinsey Innovation Hamel Management 11

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). the number of jobs increases.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

Another significant problem is that participation in trade and investment is limited to a relatively small set of firms in the U.S. firms have a significant opportunity to boost their growth and productivity through wider participation in trade and investment. For example, less than 1% of the nearly 30 million registered U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Participative Insurance Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Instead, translators play a critical role in bridging the technical expertise of data engineers and data scientists with the operational expertise of marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, risk, and other frontline managers. At McKinsey, we’ve even created an academy in our own firm, training 1,000 translators in the past year.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We have all heard about a gap when it comes to participation of women in the tech industry. And a study of Kenya’s popular M-PESA mobile money service suggests that digital financial services can increase the participation of women in the workforce and create opportunities for women in the formal market economy.

Globalization 8

Globalization Participative Telecommunications Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

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

Management 8

Management How To Innovation Bureaucracy 8

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. Almost all successful management innovation looks to new principles, such as biological systems, democracy, markets, and, of course, the Web to bypass the current operating model.

Management 12

Management Short-term How To Strategic Planning 12

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. Likewise, no matter how slick your company’s online idea market, it won’t yield many high-value ideas if your associates haven’t been taught to think like innovators.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The students charge as little as $10 per hour though participants with the loftiest consulting pedigrees can command upward of $100 per hour. based consulting firm started by a pair of McKinsey alumni. HourlyNerd is an online marketplace that allows MBA students from the top 20 U.S. Eden McCallum , for example, is a U.K.

McCallum 8

McCallum Consultative Disruptive Innovation Real Estate 8