HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The number of women in high paying jobs and entering the job market has risen progressively through the years, but there are many hurdles in their journey up the ladder. . Marketing and Sales Manager. They also manage both the marketing and the sales staff and perform managerial duties in line with the company’s goals.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 14, 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 93

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 93

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 23, 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 85

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 85

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

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

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

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 1, 2012

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance Tim Koller, Richard Dobbs, and Bill Huyett John Wiley & Sons (2011) How executives can make much better decisions – “even as markets, economies, and industries change around them” All organizations need a solid foundation on which their executives can base their most important decisions about strategy, (..)

Review 85

Review Finance Books Industry 85

LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales. McKinsey Quarterly (free subscription). And the techniques themselves can be great fun.

Wilde 101

Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 101

LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The fact is that most companies spend a surprising amount of effort actually resisting innovation in so-called non-creative functions like operations, finance, customer service, and sales. McKinsey Quarterly (free subscription). And the techniques themselves can be great fun. Innovation creativity innovation'

Wilde 90

Wilde Innovation Resistance Leadership 90

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

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 instance, before the crisis, the three largest German banks had two-thirds of their total assets in foreign markets; today it is only one-third. And it is not alone.

Banking 8

Banking McKinsey Finance Globalization 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Tammy Erickson – McKinsey award-winning author. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Former SVP at Citi in both marketing and business development roles. Non-profit CEOs.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

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. These are not criminal charges.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

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. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance.

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. That was the year Bing became a profitable business for Microsoft.)

Company 12

Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In our experience at McKinsey, creating this ideal partnership usually requires the CFO to become more directly and deeply involved in strategy development. First, the finance chief is often first among equals on the board of directors and can help engage the board more productively on strategy. 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

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. We live in a world awash with capital — some $200 trillion in financial assets according to McKinsey & Company.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Bond Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Previously it focused on quantitative analysis in areas such as finance and operations, with little emphasis on other aspects of organizational life. As a coach I have two different “markets”—my students at Stanford and my private clients, who are primarily senior leaders, and in both settings my degree sends a useful signal.

Supply Chain 19

Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 19

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? What would the capital markets look like today if a similar tack had been taken when the CFO role was ripe for transformation? Finance Human resources' And HR’s credibility deficit doesn’t help the matter.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Eastman Kodak is the textbook case for failing to prioritize an innovation agenda; business schools around the world study the ramifications of the company’s ill-fated decision to ignore the digital photography market until it was too late. The Future of Financial Services. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

Industry 12

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

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.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 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

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

One of the quickest ways to sort innovation ideas is to use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model. Horizon 2 ideas extend a company’s existing business model and core capabilities to new customers, markets or targets. This not only includes the obvious — is there product/market or solution/mission fit?

Process 13

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

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). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

McKinsey analyzed more than 3,000 software and online-services firms from a 22-year period, finding that fewer than a third reached $100 million in revenue growth. How many software companies really make it big, at least in terms of revenue? Only a handful of companies reached the elusive $4 billion mark.

Software 8

Software Company McKinsey Incentives 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 12

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 12

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. Sharpen product strategies for a more digitally connected world.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

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 15

Media Productivity Products Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. million jobs.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 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

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

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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

based consulting firm started by a pair of McKinsey alumni. Over time will HourlyNerd, like many other disruptors across industries, want to move up-market to bigger and bigger clients, attracted by the greater profits those relationships promise? While HourlyNerd is making a lot of headlines today, it’s not necessarily a new idea.

McCallum 9

McCallum Consultative Disruptive Innovation Real Estate 9

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

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. Typically when firms are evaluating investments they look for large addressable markets. That’s quite a mismatch.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. According to Forbes, 58% of startups successfully figure out a clear market need for what they have. Other large consumer companies are doing the same. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Brand Venture Funding Retail 8