Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

He took aim at a high-profile target, a book by three McKinsey & Company consultants called The War for Talent. Here's what Gladwell argued: "The broader failing of McKinsey and its acolytes at Enron is their assumption that an organization's intelligence is simply a function of the intelligence of its employees.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

CEOs need to clarify when talented humans must defer to algorithmic judgment. The most painful board conversations that I hear about machine learning revolve around how much power and authority super-smart software should have. McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are the management models here. That’s hard.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

The most popular view, supported by the likes of The New York Times , the African Development Bank, and the World Bank — all powerful influencers of how the world thinks about Africa — puts the number of AMACs at more than 300 million. Between these extremes is a multitude of other estimates.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 23, 2011

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

But AI can also help support more complex decisions in key areas such as human resources, budgeting, marketing, capital allocation and even corporate strategy — long the bastion of bespoke consulting firms such as McKinsey, Bain, and BCG, and the major marketing agencies. They are very good at this, but AI is even better.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Instead, you need keen powers of observation and psychology — the stuff of poets and novelists. If you want another good reason to hire from the humanities, consider this: consulting firms like McKinsey and Bain like to hire them for all the reasons I've described above. What else?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

A recent McKinsey report suggests that alternative work platforms may unlock trillions in future economic value by using their data to better source, match, and deploy workers. The McKinsey report suggests that new intermediaries may emerge to serve the needs for freelancers’ insurance, retirement plans, etc.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 10, 2015

As a critical success factor, strategy turned into a lucrative industry for a host of consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company , and the Boston Consulting Group. When one considers the power of culture at such notables as Google, Zappos, Amazon, and Twitter, there is good reason. Culture is Today’s Poster Child.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. They offer up a powerful reframing of the metrics from, as judge Dov Seidman put it, "how much" to "how." It's not enough to change one company. We're all in this together.

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