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Only Half of Companies Actually Use the Competitive Intelligence They Collect

Harvard Business Review

and European corporations, from CI-trained analysts in marketing, business development, strategy, R&D, finance, and other fields. One analyst told us that their company had stopped development on a project that was consuming lots of local resources after the analysis indicated it wouldn’t be effective.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

To help provide a better factual base for this debate, MGI, working with McKinsey colleagues from our Strategy & Corporate Finance practice as well as the team at FCLT Global, began last fall to devise a way to systemically measure short-termism and long-termism at the company level. rate for other companies.

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

Stress tests are a specific form of simulation developed by the Federal Reserve and other central banks to allow them to figure out how badly a given financial institution’s portfolio would hold up if there was a broad sell-off across a bunch of asset classes, or a specific kind of shock like what we suffered in 2008. .”