Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

McKinsey research suggests that the most effective directors are meeting these challenges by spending twice as many days a year on board activities as other directors do. We recently discussed some of these tensions with board members and executives at Prium, a New York-based forum for CEOs (in which McKinsey participates).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Co. Chairman & CEO, Dow Chemical. Business leaders who responded to our call: Dominic Barton. Marc Benioff. Chairman & CEO, Salesforce. Richard Branson. Founder, Virgin Group. Marne Levine. COO, Instagram (Facebook, Inc.). Andrew Liveris. Doug McMillon. CEO & President, Walmart.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

After earning a degree in chemical engineering and spending eleven years in production roles at Procter & Gamble, Lynanne was drawn to P&G HR where she spent the next ten years in various roles, before moving over to Whirlpool HR four years ago. Bring on the quants. For the CFO, analytics is a native language.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion. First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Attacking "other" greenhouse gases , those that can be much more powerful warming agents than CO2, such as methane (which comes from animals/farms, natural gas leaks, and landfills) and HFCs (the class of chemicals used in refrigerants). But the plan we have on the table isn''t fully up to the task we face.

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Payback Period Energy Politics Efficiency 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. Supply chains today extend around the world, and are vulnerable to natural disasters and civil conflict. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

Starting in our biggest business — carpet tiles — our managers and staff have gone through the grinding process of identifying every single chemical in our products. We will phase out all chemicals deemed unacceptable according to Cradle-to-Cradle by 2020. 1] McKinsey & Co., Sounds pretty idealistic, doesn't it?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On the upside, similar calculations from WWF and McKinsey suggests that this pace of change –they endorse a 3% reduction in absolute emissions per year through 2020 – will actually be very profitable. Walmart is phasing out 10 toxic chemicals in the products on its shelves, and HP set a carbon reduction goal of 20% for its supply chain.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Apparel Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

To answer these tough questions, we can turn to two of the world's best number crunchers, McKinsey and PwC (full disclosure: I have a consulting partnership arrangement with PwC US). But the brutal logic of the McKibben, PwC, and McKinsey numbers applies at the microeconomic level as well. How fast do we have to change?

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