Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

Have they redirected time, energy, talent, and finances away from lower priority pursuits towards taking these actions? Have they involved a group of people in shaping the vision and therefore are emotionally invested in wanting to help make it a reality? Are they taking actions that are unquestionably big “needle movers”?

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Have they redirected time, energy, talent, and finances away from lower priority pursuits towards taking these actions? Have they involved a group of people in shaping the vision and therefore are emotionally invested in wanting to help make it a reality? Are they taking actions that are unquestionably big “needle movers”?

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2019

This isn’t a marketing issue, this is a business-wide issue, involving every facet of the organisation, hence leadership being so important. He is a lecturer at the University of the Arts London, and has written for Dazed, Admap, Brand Strategy, Marketing and Contagious.

Supply Chain 75

Supply Chain Brand Advertising PR 75

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Tammy Erickson – McKinsey award-winning author. million times.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. Synchronize siloed processes : Imagine if ATC activities were standard but siloed off from other aviation processes, such as airport gate management.

Industry 270

Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 270

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., There has been no suggestion that Gupta betrayed any client confidences in his McKinsey days. from 1994 to 2003. billion to $3.4

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. For example, the company had brought in a data scientist in 2008 to develop machine learning tools that would improve its search engine, Bing, in a market dominated by Google. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Related Video.

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Practical leadership and management skills. Management education has changed significantly over the last few decades. Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other aspects of organizational life. How well-established are these courses?

Supply Chain 19

Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

For chief executives, developing a good strategy is a management challenge that, at its best, involves maximizing the unique contributions of very different executives and, at its worst, requires managing counterproductive tension and turf wars between CFOs, CSOs and, quite often, business-unit heads. There are two reasons for this.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

A 2012 McKinsey Report shows that over a 15 year period companies that shifted more than 56% of their capital across their business units during that period delivered annual return to shareholders that were a third higher than those delivered by companies that allocated roughly the same amount of capital per unit as they had the previous year.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

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.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). These managers also bring a valuable perspective to the table.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

It’s easy to see what countries think they have to gain in these efforts: The Ellen MacArthur Foundation , McKinsey , and Accenture believe that enabling CEs will lead to trillions of dollars in savings and is a particularly significant step in protecting the environment. Then we looked at how some companies overcame these impediments.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

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 13

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute explores this new era of digital globalization. We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 trillion in 2014 alone. What exactly makes up these cross-border digital flows?

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Something astonishing is happening to the market for young, smart labor. In an opinion piece , Deloitte CEO Barry Salzberg says that millennials are increasingly thinking of finance, consulting, and corporate jobs as a "a tragedy of wasted minds." But start-ups do more than just good marketing. Where are all these people going?

Trends 9

Trends McKinsey Career Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

billion consumers around the globe have an account on a social networking site and almost one in five online hours is spent on social networks), marketing departments have increasingly shifted their attention to social media. With consumers spending gobs of time in online communities ( more than 1.5 trillion annually. trillion annually.

Media 16

Media Productivity Products Technology 16

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. That’s why good managers put so much focus on measuring and managing return on investment (ROI) as a basic operational practice.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

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. 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.

Goal 8

Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Well, Angelia, according to a recent study by McKinsey, over $1.3 The first is this notion that the challenges at work, the challenges of managing modern work, really are a crisis. ” So, this challenge at work, the crisis of trying to manage modern work, has gone from a nuisance to a business imperative.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

percent of senior managerial and directorial roles , according to McKinsey. Establish Benchmarks Make it a point to define industry and market benchmarks to compare your organization’s compensation practices. Be an active market player to plan out how to create an equitable compensation system. percent of the U.S.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

First up was Galleon Group and its founder, Raj Rajaratnam, brought down in an investigation that also resulted in the conviction of former McKinsey chief and Goldman Sachs board member Rajat Gupta. Manne in his 1966 book, Insider Trading and the Stock Market. have centered on. insider trading by hedge funds.

Hedge 8

Hedge Handbook Crisis Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

By 2018, the United States alone could face a shortage of as many as 190,000 people with deep analytical skills according to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute. million managers and analysts who understand big data and how to apply it to business operations. The study also found a looming need for over 1.5

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology McKinsey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many leaders arrive into the C-suite having grown up in functions like Marketing or Finance and lean too heavily on instincts and cognitive biases shaped by their ascent within those disciplines. Lacking an understanding of how value is delivered to their market, they make suboptimal investments.

Execution 8

Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) looked at the state of digitization in sectors across the U.S. Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Rahul and Noelle both made the transition into public service through Fuse Corps—a social sector start-up launched in 2011 with the support of companies like McKinsey, GE, and Starbucks to provide a pathway for talented professionals who wish to contribute to the public sector but don’t know where to begin.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Politics Policies Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk. That's as true for a Walmart or a JCPenney as it is for a McKinsey & Co. Ignore Costly Market Data and Rely on Google Instead? An HBR Management Puzzle.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 31, 2012

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything Carol J. Loomis The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow Michael Macoby The Tao of Twitter: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time [.].

Blog 80

Blog Review Books McKinsey 80

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

multinationals by the McKinsey Global Institute. Foreign expansion can fuel employment growth at home in areas like manufacturing, logistics, R&D, design, marketing, finance, and management. competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S. Needed: A Government-Business Partnership. But to spark that growth, U.S.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. public market capitalization over this period. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. We calculate that U.S.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

By ignoring the distribution, that statistic masks a more important trend: As the McKinsey Global Institute has documented , variance in corporate earnings has increased substantially as well. As McKinsey’s researchers write in their report : The most digitized sectors in the U.S.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In contrast to startups, which often experiment until they gain their footing in the market, established businesses are notoriously slow to change. In order to adapt to a climate charged by automation, market shifts, and globalization, companies need to evolve to meet changing priorities and conditions. Adjust strategies to meet goals.

Agility 50

Agility Process Management McKinsey 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Social entrepreneurs are stultified by traditional forms of financing. They have virtually no access to capital markets and little flexibility to experiment at various stages of growth. In the mid-1960s and early 1970s, a new type of investment vehicle was created: the professionally managed venture capital partnership.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Bond Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents. It was just the industry and firm norm.

Team 12

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 12