Harvard Business Review
APRIL 5, 2017
The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. FCLT and McKinsey rely on readily available and machine-readable accounting data to measure myopia.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 16, 2015
” A quarter century later, not much seems to have changed: fewer than five out of the 100 CEOs on HBR’s 2014 list of best-performing CEOs even mention “return on capital” on their official biography — and none of those five lead companies listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or in the EuroStoxx50.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 27, 2015
Companies in the top one-fifth of profitability earn, in aggregate, about 70 times more economic profit (accounting profit less cost of capital) than those in the middle three-fifths combined, according to McKinsey’s database of 3,000 large, publicly listed, nonfinancial U.S. Sound familiar? There are many.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
Though both statements may sound extreme, they are the clear implication of new McKinsey research on how companies create value and allocate resources. The rest of the companies, more than 2,400, simply do not have a strategy that effectively outperforms the market. How confident are you that you can ‘beat the market’?
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. To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To Wider dynamics may be at play.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. public market capitalization over this period.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 10, 2017
A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. For any business to succeed over the long term, it must earn a return that exceeds its cost of capital. That’s quite a mismatch.
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