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

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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

A McKinsey study released in May 2011 stated that, by using Big Data to the fullest, retailers stood to increase their operating margins by up to 60% — this, in an industry where net profit margins are often less than 2%. Retail has entered the era of Big Data.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. When it comes to the work histories of the other top management team members at the organizations on our list, TFA again stands out.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

A May 2011 McKinsey Global Institute study on big data analytics predicted a coming shortfall of around 150,000 people with deep analytical skills – and a shortfall of 1.5 Information & technology Talent management' There is widespread recognition of the shortage of analytical professionals.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

According to a McKinsey & Company study India’s biggest barriers to internet adoption are primarily in the areas of internet access capabilities and awareness of the internet itself. Only 19.2% according to a WSJ/VentureSource analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

As I''ve written in my previous two blog posts, our first inclination is usually to play down the potential impact of a new technology. Direct spending on business travel by domestic and international travelers totaled $249 billion in 2011. But an Apple-produced television has the potential to be so much more. Telepresence will happen.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Facebook, Google, and Apple have 17%, 19% and 23% women in their technology staffs, respectively. Apart from the many benefits of the uptake of digital technology, can the industry’s advances actually help address this gender disparity? michael suriano/unsplash. ” Understanding the opportunity in digital inclusion.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

We have, for example, developed a technology to take used carpet material back and separate the bitumen backing from the yarn and sell it to the road and roofing industries. 1] McKinsey & Co., Resource Revolution: Meeting the world's energy, materials, food, and water needs, November 2011.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It looked at the role technology plays in economic recoveries, both in terms of economic growth and the number of jobs. They explored data across 28 different industries in 17 countries over a period spanning 1970 to 2011, during which 71 economic recoveries occurred. The dissemination of technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The development of new technologies is complex and challenging, and to come up with the next big innovation, businesses must think — and operate — in new ways. But more recently, emerging-market locations have featured prominently in global firms’ technology portfolios.

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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. And current recycling technology is limited. The domestic remanufacturing industry grew by 15% between 2009 and 2011 to "at least $43.0 Recycling aluminum requires around 1.7

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

A 2011 McKinsey study estimated that the internet accounted for 21% of GDP growth over the previous five years among the developed countries studied, a sharp increase over the 10% contribution over the 15 years prior. Consider some sobering analysis from McKinsey based on an analysis of over 750 occupations.

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