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.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The depth and breadth of the skills and talents possessed by this next generation of CHROs have taken them from not having a “seat at the table” too often making them a logical choice as a successor candidate to CEOs. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2003, Hogan was a partner at McKinsey & Co. “What makes a great CHRO, great?

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

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.

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CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Success demands a far more diverse set of experiences and skills.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Our first accomplishments as professionals are usually rooted in our skill as individual contributors. We expect our students to have solid technical and analytical skills—to be effective doers. In most fields we add value in the early stages of our careers by getting things done. In a word, we’re doers.

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Goleman Supply Chain Leadership Styles McKinsey 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

I earned my MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in 2000, and since 2007 I’ve been an Instructor and an internal coach back at the GSB, helping hundreds of students develop their leadership and interpersonal skills. Practical leadership and management skills. Here’s how I respond to those inquiries.

Supply Chain 20

Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 20

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. Today’s superstar sectors tend to have higher R&D intensity, higher skill intensity and lower capital and labor intensity than other sectors. Wider dynamics may be at play.

Industry 13

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Marketing and sales, manufacturing, recruiting (including people assessment), customer service, and support are all fields that can benefit from artificial intelligence according to McKinsey’s recent research. It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance. ZB by 2020.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

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.

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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.

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Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Our work suggests that the skills TFA cultivates in its alumni may be connected to the spawning of new ventures and the types of jobs alumni hold in these organizations. When it comes to the work histories of the other top management team members at the organizations on our list, TFA again stands out.

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Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 15

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. The study also found a looming need for over 1.5 million managers and analysts who understand big data and how to apply it to business operations.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology McKinsey Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

As part of our ten-year longitudinal study on executive transitions, which included more than 2,700 leadership interviews, we did a rigorous statistical analysis (including more than 90 regression analyses) to isolate the skills of the top-performing executives. This skill inspires markedly higher confidence and focus among those they lead.

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Execution Supply Chain Analysis Learning-by-Doing 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. Startups and established companies bring two distinct and equally integral skills to the table. Other large consumer companies are doing the same.

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Company Brand Venture Funding Retail 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

JULY 2, 2013

True, to the surprise of many analysts, the prime minister, Antonis Samaras, abandoned his earlier populist rhetoric and tried to sort out public finances. This was to signal that Greece had the will and skill not only to cut salaries but also to reform. Predictably, Greece was unable to meet its commitment.

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Politics Restructuring Crisis McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Multinationals tend to be large, capital-intensive, skill-intensive, research-intensive, and high-productivity — all features that contribute to high-wage jobs and rising living standards. multinationals by the McKinsey Global Institute. multinationals by the McKinsey Global Institute. economy, these trends are alarming.

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Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

On the contrary, they may become the most powerful tools yet developed to raise the productivity of high-skill knowledge workers — the kind of workers who help drive innovation and growth, and who are going to be in increasingly short supply. The total potential value at stake in these sectors is $900 billion to $1.3

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Media Productivity Products Technology 16

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

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

However, it is very likely that unless companies also learn how to create an equitable compensation system, these funds will not be fairly distributed among all, equally skilled, employees. percent of senior managerial and directorial roles , according to McKinsey. percent of the U.S. population according to Gallup , but hold only 1.2

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System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

What’s more, the recent McKinsey study on Greek competitiveness shows that the country’s biggest challenge has been a lack of investment. Not only is there a lack of will; there’s a critical lack of skill. contraction today, there was no one in the finance ministry actually making policy.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Well, Angelia, according to a recent study by McKinsey, over $1.3 What they realize is that they’ve always treated finance and financial management as a tier-one asset. Alex, what opportunities are you seeing in the market for these emerging leaders, and how can they capitalize on the skills that they’ve built?

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 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. “Back in the 1980s, college graduates and low-skilled people would be in every firm,” said Bloom.

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McKinsey Document Engineering Outsourcing 8

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. According to estimates by McKinsey , if France were to shift into a higher gear and equal the U.K.’s

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Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8