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- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
firms do that already. "These results seem to make a lot of sense to organizations like The Boston Consulting Group or McKinsey & Company, which deliberately use very different structures for different functional stages of a... View Details
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
the organization various types of decisions are being made and whether those particular points are still the most efficient. Keith Leslie, a partner at McKinsey and Company's London office, says his firm recently advised one client to... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
- 22 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
lies in finding the sweet spot between these two undesirable outcomes, and determining how compensation can motivate salespeople best. In a recent Harvard Business Review article, Chung and several executives from the consulting firm View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
have been several. First, innovation in frameworks and methodologies along with trained professionals have provided value-added services uniquely available from the consulting firm. For example, the Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey... View Details
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
Does Gender Diversity in Management Enhance Performance? Why? A variety of explanations for the positive correlation between gender diversity and better business performance found in a recent McKinsey study were advanced in responses to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
Many employees are seeking a permanent change to their schedules and companies are adapting. A recent McKinsey survey found that 90 percent of companies are willing to accommodate them with plans for hybrid workplaces. "You have to trust... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
same. This is in the face of research findings that organizations with significant minority representation are stronger than their peers. A McKinsey & Company study in May of top executive teams in more than a thousand organizations... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
Business Review in 1993. Michael Hammer and James Champy, Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (New York: HarperCollins, 1993). Brian Hancock and Bill Schaninger, “The vanishing middle manager,” McKinsey... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
female, women make up only 38 percent of middle management jobs, 22 percent of C-suite seats, and a grim 5 percent of CEO positions, according to 2019 data from the consulting firm McKinsey & Company. “The improvement over the last... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
that this might work less well in continental Europe.) Try to be concrete rather than abstract about economy-wide benefits of globalization. Findings such as those from the McKinsey Global Institute that for every dollar the United States... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
stakeholders, instead of just slicing up a fixed pie in a way that favors one group over another. Consider, for example, the conclusions of the McKinsey Global Institute's study of U.S. labor productivity growth between 1995 and 2000. In... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
according to a report by the McKinsey Global Institute. Yet the costs of this unbalanced approach to managing economic downturns are not always well understood by managers. LAYOFFS ARE EXTREMELY DISRUPTIVE In April, the Honeywell case was... View Details
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
effective. This type of conversation can provide the clarity needed to personalize our work’s purpose better than an organization’s vision or mission statement, which is often so grand that employees have difficulty connecting it to their daily tasks.” In a similar... View Details
- Research Summary
The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
thinks they are important). The topic has reached the pages of the McKinsey Quarterly, especially its January issue, where Peter Bregman observes that "you can't get everything done, even if you follow the right system." He... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
traditionally has held power. Another McKinsey study found that high levels of gender equality, measured on several societal dimensions across countries, are associated with such things as better female performance on math tests, better... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
they reported that "Without exception, these (resource management) activities are distributed more widely across the organization than is usually imagined posing huge problems where coherence is a central requisite for efficiency and effectiveness." A recent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
them "data whisperers") is so acute that it may be years before a sufficient supply can be trained. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that up to 190,000 are needed now in the US, along with 1.5 million managers capable of using... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett