Word: mckinseys
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Yesterday’s initiative was in part crafted on the recommendations of a pro bono report by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., which conducted interviews with top media executives and high-profile correspondents...
...creation of the three posts was recommended by a report commissioned last spring by Hyman and Summers and was written by the consulting firm McKinsey & Company...
Though the McKinsey study was complete in December, Hyman said he slowed down the implementation of the recommendations in the spring in anticipation of the task force’s own recommendations...
...original McKinsey report called for a senior position for faculty development similar to the position ultimately recommended by the task force to spearhead the hiring of more female and minority faculty...
...poor record of conglomerates is well documented. In a study of the merger programs that 58 large firms pursued between 1972 and 1983, McKinsey & Co. concluded that in at least 28 of the cases the acquisitions did not earn enough money for the company to justify the purchase price. In only six instances did the merger program seem to be a clear-cut success. Companies stumbled most frequently when they bought firms in a totally different industry. F.M. Scherer, a Swarthmore College economist who surveyed 6,000 mergers from 1950 to 1977, discovered that the profitability of most acquired companies...