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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. Here’s the list.

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4 Beliefs that Lead to Bad Decisions

Strategy Driven

He earned his BA magna cum laude from Harvard and his MBA and JD from Stanford and previously led projects for McKinsey & Company. He earned his BA magna cum laude from Harvard and his MBA and JD from Stanford and previously led projects for McKinsey & Company. Consider leaving a comment!

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Why and How to Build an In-House Consulting Team

Harvard Business Review

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. This also forces us to deliver great quality on every project. McKinsey, Bain, or Boston Consulting Group).

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How to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

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. Compensation committees often start by tying bonuses and long-term incentives to goals related to compliance and risk management.

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It’s Not HR’s Job to Be Strategic

Harvard Business Review

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.”.

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Aligning Your Organization with an Agile Workforce

Harvard Business Review

In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible. Studies of the global agile-talent community vary in their estimates of the size of the population. Clash of expectations.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

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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