Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Even more striking, new research from the McKinsey Global Institute analyzes firm-level financial results and finds a stark contrast in performance between the biggest U.S. Past work by McKinsey found that inefficiencies in manufacturer-supplier interactions add up to roughly 5% of development, tooling, and product costs in the auto industry.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. There are indeed some indications that point in this direction.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. There are indeed some indications that point in this direction.

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

A 2012 McKinsey Report shows that over a 15 year period companies that shifted more than 56% of their capital across their business units during that period delivered annual return to shareholders that were a third higher than those delivered by companies that allocated roughly the same amount of capital per unit as they had the previous year.

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CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In its “State of Human Capital” report , McKinsey found that people in HR still largely have “a support-function mindset, a low tolerance for risk, and a limited sense of strategic ‘authorship’” — all of which has led to “low status among executive peers, no budget for innovation, and a ‘zero-defects’ mentality.”. labor force by 2025.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Similarly, the percentage of people who have used Twitter for customer service leapt nearly 70%, from 22 to 37% from 2013-14. McKinsey’s analysis shows that 30% of social media users prefer social care to phoning customer service. Companies have to develop guidelines for how to act when a particular event occurs.

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CRM Company Airlines Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Marketing and sales, manufacturing, recruiting (including people assessment), customer service, and support are all fields that can benefit from artificial intelligence according to McKinsey’s recent research. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. ZB by 2020.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Meanwhile, in a survey of 89 institutional investors by Callan , 43% of respondents said they incorporate sustainability factors into their investment decisions — up 21 percentage points from 2013. The UN, for example, has outlined 17 broad Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Progress is measured with 169 targets.

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Execution Incentives How To Committee 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

Chamber of Commerce supports companies in developing circular economies (CEs), and China — like Europe — has developed policies and legislation around CEs. Soon after, it developed a financing offer for refurbished equipment, which mirrored the warranty and service experience offered for new products.

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Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Thanks to the proliferation of smartphones, brand and online-shopping websites, social media, and vehicle connectivity, businesses have a unique opportunity to use technology to revolutionize the customer experience and to incorporate the voice of the customer into product development. But where and how do you start? Keep it simple.

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Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

In-house strategy and consulting groups are growing in popularity , supplementing and increasingly winning business from traditional consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company. McKinsey, Bain, or Boston Consulting Group). Win on merit. Our group welcomes the competition.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support. Average compensation in 2013 across the advanced industries sector was $90,000—nearly double that of workers in other industries.

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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. The catch is that adopting these technologies will disrupt the world of work.

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GDP Globalization Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

In 1984, 37% of these degrees went to women vs. just 18% in 2013. To this end, McKinsey conducted extensive qualitative and quantitative research of more than 2,400 interviewees. This research was done in the context of McKinsey and Facebook’s partnership to launch a program called TechPrep. They comprise 30% of the U.S.

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Industry Diversity Class Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

More than a year after its publication, I’m still reeling from the results of Gallup’s 2013 Global Workforce Study. Leaders should personally invest more effort in talent development during periods of high change. Clearly, workplaces are now optimized for high levels of workforce engagement. Or are they?

Management 8

Management Globalization Drucker Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Lynanne Kunkle, VP-Global Talent Development and HR-Asia for Whirlpool, is a case in point. HR strategy is an expertise that takes years to fully develop.”. Bring on the quants.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

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% In the first half of 2014, 26% of all online purchases in China were made on a mobile phone.

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Telecommunications Marketing Wireless McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Google and Intel rely on experts in social science and biomechanics to develop transformative products by better understanding how people think about and use technology. In 2013, Accenture suggested that 20 to 30 percent of the total workforce falls outside the organization’s traditional full-time, permanent employment relationship.

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Agility Organization Resources Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

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. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

The marketers of Clearblue Advanced Pregnancy Test, a product that can tell you if you’re one-week, two-weeks, or three-plus weeks pregnant, asked a couple of D-list celebrities to tweet out their positive tests back in 2013. This isn’t, as McKinsey’s John Forsyth says, simply for marketing or retail firms.

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Market Segmentation Marketing Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

In other words, these findings are unique to unemployed young people in many highly developed economies. But our analysis — which is based on interviews conducted between 2013 and 2015, with more than 450,000 people aged 15 and older, in 155 countries — also leads to some other viable explanations. What’s the cause?

Education 9

Education McKinsey Analysis Reference 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

Where I was unable to spell my own name or barely speak in 2008, I am now projecting revenue growth and cash flows in 2013." In longitudinal assessments conducted by The Fullbridge Program, graduates emerged "more developed, polished and professional."

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EBITDA Human Resources McKinsey Cost 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

After stints at Applied Materials and McKinsey, he joined Google just a little over 10 years ago. Second, his philosophy on products includes the principle of serving the ecosystem of users and developers. Pichai will need to return to his core philosophy and belief in user-centered product development.

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CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

In the case of South Bend, that means Mayor Pete Buttigieg , a former Rhodes scholar and McKinsey consultant, who has been known to challenge city workers to tackle problems so thorny that they can only be solved with new kinds of thinking. As we’ve observed, it’s a mindset that starts at the top.

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Drucker Katz Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Case closed (until engineers develop an algorithm that does the job better). That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Based on similar numbers, both McKinsey and PwC UK calculated how fast we must reduce the carbon intensity of the global economy ( PwC's number is 5% per year until 2050 ). To make the exercise feasible and affordable, they turned to Columbia University, which developed a new algorithm for fast carbon footprinting. on to 2013.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10