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...offered him the top job at EMI Music. EMI was then a listing ship that had jettisoned more than 40% of its market value in one year, and had just issued an entirely unexpected warning, admitting that profits would slide 20%. One of Levy's first hires was a McKinsey & Co. consultant, John Rose, in January 2002, whose remit was to figure out how to make digital pay. "He knew digital wasn't going to go away," Rose recalls. "That was a large part of his hiring me." But Levy's decision to embrace digital bucked industry notions. "The prevailing...
...foundation has been able to exact a rare level of accountability from its grantees. In India the foundation runs an HIV/AIDS-prevention program that is headed by Ashok Alexander, formerly a senior partner at consulting firm McKinsey & Co. He calls the 200,000 sex workers served by the program "customers" and the clinics "franchises." In the past year, he has cut off funding to three nongovernmental organizations because they did not meet agreed-upon milestones. "People are not used to being terminated for nonperformance, strange as it may seem," Alexander says...
Before launching her campaign, Nolan worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Co. At Harvard, she was active in the Radcliffe Union of Students and the South Africa Solidarity Committee—which urged Harvard to divest from the apartheid state...
...most populous country is currently suffering from a severe shortage in skilled labor—specifically experienced managers—to head its ever-increasing number of firms. This deficiency could quickly become an impediment to China’s predicted economic explosion. According to research from the McKinsey Global Institute, over the next 10 to 15 years Chinese companies will require 75,000 people to lead effectively in a global environment. Currently, the nation only has 3,000 to 5,000 such leaders. The HBS campus was the site of the first Program on Case Method and Participant-Centered...
Four years ago, Darkoh got his chance to do things better. The Botswana government hired McKinsey to help design an AIDS-treatment program--a critical need in a country where 300,000 people out of a population of 1.6 million are infected with HIV. Darkoh volunteered to draw up the program and presented it to the Botswana leadership. With funding from Merck and the Gates Foundation, the government brought him to the capital, Gaborone, where he set up shop. What Darkoh found when he arrived was a population not only ravaged by AIDS but also seemingly numb to its horrors...