Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. The research, conducted with analytical support from McKinsey and funding from Omidyar Network, included interviews with 37 investors and 10 social enterprise leaders.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Glocalization Survey McKinsey 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

A lot of companies congratulate themselves on having a "social media presence" — by which they mean a Twitter following and Facebook likes and a marketing plan that uses social networks. But some 70% of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing. into the core.

Media 8

Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

Which will you hold on to as deep, tacit insights, which will you develop, protect and legally enforce, and which will you proactively share? You need to know what is emerging from tacit deep insights and be able to direct its structural development.

Tacit Knowledge 14

Tacit Knowledge McKinsey Core Competence Document 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In our recent research at the McKinsey Global Institute, we examined the superstar phenomenon across firms, as well as sectors and cities. We focus on economic profit rather than revenue size, market share, or productivity growth because these other metrics risk including firms that are simply large and may not create economic value.

Industry 11

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

Given these network effects – as many proclaim – markets get “winner takes all properties”: the largest network will win, crowding out the remaining competitors (like MySpace and Google+). It is a misconception to think that network effects inevitably and always lead to a winner-take-all market.

McCallum 11

McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

The most popular view, supported by the likes of The New York Times , the African Development Bank, and the World Bank — all powerful influencers of how the world thinks about Africa — puts the number of AMACs at more than 300 million. Between these extremes is a multitude of other estimates.

Class 9

Class Globalization Banking Education 9

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. As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

The unbanked pay four times more in fees to access their money than those with bank accounts, and they pay $4 higher fees per month for cash access on average than those with formal financial services. What about the costs of cash in developing economies, where cash use is much more prevalent? By FDIC estimates, 8.2%

Cost 8

Cost Transportation Banking Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2014

The status of a firm is quite possibly the leading driver in attracting the best of the best, at least in investment banking, according to a paper recently accepted by the Strategic Management Journal. For investment banking, Bidwell says, this system works pretty well.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Reputation Banking Career 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The United States has thousands of workforce development and training programs, run by the public, social, and private sectors. But according to the World Bank , only 30% of youth employment programs are successful, with many of those offering only marginal benefit. Some are excellent; others, not so much.

Metrics 9

Metrics TCO Training Cost-Benefit Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

According to McKinsey, youth unemployment in Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria, is around 50%. Despite the inventiveness of these entrepreneurs, some operate in the informal economy, without government registration, IP rights, or access to banking. Industrial developments will require supporting infrastructure.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Entrepreneur Banking 8

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. of its population has internet access (at home or over a wireless device); other estimates, such as that from the World Bank , suggest that the number may be even lower, 15.1%

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Marketing Wireless McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

McKinsey may have been hired in 2013 by the Vatican, the Bank of England, and the owners of the Rangers and Knicks, but they’re also acting to stave off threats to their business model. We also found seven other reasons Africa’s economy might leapfrog the economies of more developed nations.

Management 17

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

We call this approach “strategy as learning,” which contrasts sharply with the view of strategy as a stable, analytically rigorous plan for execution in the market. market, its executives formulated a strategy of developing so-called clean-diesel vehicles that leveraged the company’s core competence.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It has been 10 years since the global financial crisis, and the fall-out continues in the industry that was at its epicenter: banking. There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global. For some banks, the answer is simply: Yes.

Banking 8

Banking McKinsey Finance Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

When it comes to understanding the pace of global digital evolution , the digital growth of developed countries usually has little to tell us about the digital future of developing ones. This is thanks, in part, to its world-class digital infrastructure.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Policies Globalization Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

The result, at least in developed nations, is a highly unequal corporate landscape, where some firms are incredibly productive and the amount of money a person makes is tied to the company they work for, not just the job that they do. As McKinsey’s researchers write in their report : The most digitized sectors in the U.S.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

To open a bank account today, for instance, a typical customer embarks on a multichannel journey: researching online; downloading an application; speaking to a call center agent; linking brokerage accounts; visiting a branch; and installing the bank’s mobile app. For more see the HBR article, “The Truth About Customer Experience” ).

Call Center 8

Call Center Banking Analysis Knowledge Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2012

According to a survey of social media users by the joint Nielsen-McKinsey venture NM Incite, 33% of respondents say they'd recommend a brand that offered a quick but ineffective response, nearly double the number (17%) who'd recommend a brand providing a slow but effective solution. The playbook. HBR Insight Center. Are You Giving up Power?

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard McKinsey Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2016

Japan’s educational institutions and cultural work ethic give its managers a jump-start in their careers, but most companies don’t continue the development process as far as it could go. Just look at the leaders of ANZ, the global banking group headquartered in Melbourne. But that potential had been squandered.

Drotter 8

Drotter Charan Leadership Pipeline Short-term 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Indeed, the Global Entrepreneurship Development Institute ranks the country a lowly 122nd out of 137 countries. With the World Bank also rating the country 136th out of 190 in its ease-of-doing-business rankings, the problems facing potential startups are all too evident. This compares to neighboring India, which ranks 69th.

Succession 82

Succession Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 82

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

The options for getting work done — beyond regular full-time employment — are increasing and, in a world of constant change, we should be asking not simply whether a worker should be categorized as an employee or a contractor but whether regular full-time employment is really the only way to deliver high pay and marketable skills.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Globalization Health Care Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. The digital talent market in the UK is already tight. Scaling Up Will be Harder Without Common Platforms and a Single Market.

Safe Harbor 8

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Of these, only three, Switzerland, Ireland, and Estonia, made it to a commendable “Stand Out” category – which means that their high levels of digital development are attractive to global businesses and investors and that their digital ecosystems are positioned to nurture start ups and internet businesses that can compete globally.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

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. ranked 30th out of the 50 countries studied.

Politics 8

Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 8