First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 1, 2012

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs, and Bill Huyett John Wiley & Sons (2011) How executives can make much better decisions – “even as markets, economies, and industries change around them” All organizations need a solid foundation on which their executives can base their most important decisions about strategy, (..)

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Review Finance Books Industry 85

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

A radical demographic shift is transforming the nature of consumer markets. Marketing savvy just isn’t enough to track these consumers. For example, people aged over 50 bought nearly two-thirds of the new cars sold in the United States in 2011. McKinsey Glog research finds that China is expected to spend 12.5%

Marketing 8

Marketing McKinsey Globalization Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. On the one hand, membership in the top bracket — the lofty heights occupied by the likes of McKinsey & Co. Is the highest of managerial arts — or sciences, if you prefer — dead, as some allege? Monitor & Co.,

Consultative 15

Consultative Strategy McKinsey Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Brimming with confidence after their recent success in China's biggest cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, both foreign and local marketers have expanded into many smaller cities across the country. This market was estimated at around RMB 2.9 This market was estimated at around RMB 2.9 How many other companies can say that?

Marketing 12

Marketing Franchising Retail Budgeting 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

GDP growth in emerging markets is slowing. So commences McKinsey Quarterly's report on the firm's latest survey on global economic conditions (which was in the field during the week leading up to the Greek elections). Indeed they are at their lowest since March 2011, according to the report. "The euro’s future is in limbo.

GDP 13

GDP McKinsey Wilde Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. New research conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute makes it clear that Africa faces real economic headwinds including declining investment and savings, and rising government indebtedness. trillion.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term GDP Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2011

According to a 2007 McKinsey & Co. Meanwhile, the number of people agreeing with the statement "I build my wardrobe around different occasions and needs" rose from 36% in 2010 to 45% in 2011. In 2009, sales totaled $114 billion, making China the world's second-largest apparel market behind the $287 billion U.S.

Apparel 13

Apparel Franchising Retail Fashion 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Increasingly, the largest retailers in markets across the country are employing sophisticated personalized marketing and thereby becoming the primary shopping destination for a growing number of consumers. Retail has entered the era of Big Data. The biggest retailers are investing accordingly. But it is fast becoming cannon fodder.

Retail 15

Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

According to the latest McKinsey survey, 35% of respondents in China believe that companies that market products across a range of categories are more trustworthy than those that focus on just one or two segments. However, recent trends could force marketers to rethink that strategy.

Brand 12

Brand McKinsey Marketing Trends 12

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners. And no matter how you interpret them, they come to two general conclusions: Males are aggressive; females are nurturing. Men are competitive, combative, and individually centered.

Self-aware 72

Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

A decade on, in January 2011, The Economist has revised its dark vision, calling Africa's countries " The Lion Kings.". And this is the interesting opportunity that is emerging: By 2020, 128 million households (600 million people) will have reached the consumer class, according to McKinsey's estimates. One such is General Electric.

McKinsey 12

McKinsey Health Care Class Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2014

Both cite a McKinsey survey which, ironically, found that “Organizations’ efforts to go digital. Another McKinsey survey , conducted in 2011, found then that the average company with more than 1,000 employees already had more data in its CRM system than in the entire Library of Congress. Marketing Sales Social media'

Media 10

Media ROI McKinsey Survey 10

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 14

Minto How To McKinsey Software 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

Businesses like Facebook are filling an internet access gap in emerging markets that others, including the public sector, may simply never be able to address. Despite having 200 million internet users at the end of 2014, India is not even among the top 10 e-commerce markets in the world, according to a recent eMarketer report.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Marketing Wireless McKinsey 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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For many companies, a shrinking middle class means a shrinking top line, as their traditional consumer base migrates to the lower end of the market. For 2011, it all added up to $4.8 Census Bureau, a record 46.2 million Americans are now living below the poverty line, as more and more people fall out of the middle class.

Brand 13

Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

We have been analyzing cash usage behavior in emerging markets on different continents and experiencing different socio-political and economic challenges through our research in Egypt, India, and Mexico. However, this proportion is not growing; it has remained relatively static over the period 2005-2011, even as Mexico’s economy has grown.

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

In this first leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation , we asked the most progressive thinkers and radical doers from every realm of endeavor to share a story, a hack, a disruptive idea, or an experimental design that illustrates how the web can help overcome the limits of conventional management and create Management 2.0.

Management 14

Management Innovation Storytelling Bottom-up 14

leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

McKinsey 2012, Digital and Executive challenges. Mark Dollins is president of North Star Communications Consulting , bringing three decades of diverse leadership experience to develop communications and marketing talent for his clients. They need to be resourceful in developing homegrown skills. Let’s be honest.

Wilde 165

Wilde Media White Paper McKinsey 165

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

And Bain & Company’s analysis of the performance of nearly 100 Western firms with listed subsidiaries in emerging markets found that these companies increased their profits there by an average of 15 percent a year between 2005 and 2010—compared to 23 percent a year for comparable local companies.

Globalization 9

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

And Bain & Company’s analysis of the performance of nearly 100 Western firms with listed subsidiaries in emerging markets found that these companies increased their profits there by an average of 15 percent a year between 2005 and 2010—compared to 23 percent a year for comparable local companies.

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 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

JUNE 16, 2015

McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks. In 2011, floods in Thailand stranded hard drive and automakers for months without key parts.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011. Let''s be really optimistic and suppose that $100 billion survives, at least in the short term, out of inertia, and because there will always be moments when McKinsey must meet with clients face to face. Rough estimate.)

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

China's consumer goods market expanded rapidly over the past two decades primarily because of the growing number of first-time buyers, who were eager to buy goods and services that were previously unavailable or unaffordable. That's a concern for many companies, as a recent McKinsey survey highlights.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products McKinsey Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

1] McKinsey & Co., Resource Revolution: Meeting the world's energy, materials, food, and water needs, November 2011. There are plenty of opportunities like this. trillion in savings globally from improved resource productivity. Cradle-to-Cradle has worked for us as a winning strategy.

Strategy 11

Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

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

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The McKinsey Global Institute reports that price volatility has hit a high , second only to the energy crisis of the 1970s. The domestic remanufacturing industry grew by 15% between 2009 and 2011 to "at least $43.0 The market has huge profit potential. In 2011, their annual sales approached $1 billion in remanufactured goods.

Resources 8

Resources McKinsey Globalization Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

But more recently, emerging-market locations have featured prominently in global firms’ technology portfolios. As the Economist Intelligence Unit has noted, emerging-market R&D is taking the lead on global projects because it has the best ideas to offer, rather than the cheapest. our research shows.

Globalization 8

Globalization Engineering Technology Innovation 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

They explored data across 28 different industries in 17 countries over a period spanning 1970 to 2011, during which 71 economic recoveries occurred. ” It’s part of a Robotics as a Service market that research from Allied Market Research estimated will be worth some $34.7 The need for investment in technology.

TCO 87

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 87

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The world’s five largest companies (by market capitalization) are all American and compete in the digital sphere: Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. Consider some sobering analysis from McKinsey based on an analysis of over 750 occupations. This will add to a compounding of the job creation challenge in the U.S.

Politics 9

Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 9