Word: mckinseys
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...debt disposal or any of the other macho macroeconomic fixes currently capturing all the attention, but structural reform designed to remove governmental barriers to free-market competition at the domestic corporate level. "You can clean up the banks' balance sheets all you want," says James Kondo, a consultant at McKinsey & Co. who helped produce a recent study that remains one of the most comprehensive looks yet at Japan's productivity gap. "But until you change the environments companies operate in, the same problems are going to keep returning. Right now, people are just treating the symptoms." Because Japan's productivity...
...country famous as the place where they always make things better, cheaper, smarter. Production techniques invented here?Just In Time Manufacturing, Total Quality Management, Continuous Improvement?have been imitated from Seoul to S?o Paulo. Certainly, Japan's leading export manufacturers deserve this reputation. According to that report by McKinsey, Japanese export industries like automobiles, electronics and computer hardware are, indeed, 20% more productive than the worldwide benchmark. But here's the problem: these industries, once you stop to count them, are quite few in number. Together, they make up only 10% of Japan's workforce...
Thomas-Graham, the keynote speaker, is author of two best-selling mystery novels, the first black woman to become a partner at McKinsey and Co. and currently the highest-ranking black American in cable news. She spoke at length about women’s role as “the corporate conscience...
...plasters the campus with posters for career introductory meetings, and seniors head to Neiman Marcus for their all-important interview suits, the exotic tang of real-world jobs has begun to flavor the air around Harvard’s ivory towers. Students debate whether to take the McKinsey offer, or head to law school—but one career option seems to be significantly underappreciated by job seekers and OCS alike: secretarial work...
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