McKinsey Quarterly is the business journal of McKinsey & Company.
FEBRUARY 2012
This strategy can create value, but only if a company is the best possible owner of businesses outside its core industry.
JANUARY 2012
Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their employees in four avoidable ways.
An update of our research on the efforts of developed countries to work out from under a massive overhang of debt shows how uneven progress has been. US households have made the greatest gains so far.
Investors want radical plans to boost ROE above the cost of capital.
Over the next quarter century, the rise of three billion more middle-class consumers will strain natural resources. The race is on to boost resource supplies, overhaul their management, and change the game with new technologies.
DECEMBER 2011
Few companies are clear about how investing in social initiatives will change stakeholder behavior or the harm a bad strategy can cause.
Few executives expect the number of deals their companies start or complete to rise next year. Many indicate that there’s room to improve key planning and integration capabilities.
A powerful new class of investors in emerging markets prefers other kinds of assets.
Lower profit margins suggest a need for new business models.
Despite food price inflation and a stagnant housing market, China should maintain a rapid rate of growth.
Focus on the human side of customer service to make it psychologically savvy, economically sound, and easier to scale.
Companies that do many small deals can outperform their peers—if they have the right skills. But they need more than skill to succeed in large deals.
Dynamic domestic players and focused multinationals are helping China churn out a growing number of innovative products and services. Intensifying competition lies ahead; here’s a road map for navigating it.
Chinese innovation is evolving in diverse ways and at an uneven pace across a range of different industries. Presented here are ground-level views from three of them: automobiles, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals.
NOVEMBER 2011
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