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...consultants from McKinsey wrapped up a study of HLS and found students unhappy with many aspects of the school, ranging from class sizes to grading...
...plan focusing on science, which comes after the culmination of various reports from McKinsey, the UPPC, HLS and faculty committees, may be based on President Summers’ dream of an expanded biotech campus, but also on practical considerations...
...companies themselves or their workers. The very consultants who touted mergers in the 1990s have since published studies about the outcome, and they make stark reading. One survey by consultants A.T. Kearney revealed that 58% of mergers failed to reach the value goals set by top managers. A McKinsey & Co. report found that 40% of mergers failed to capture the cost advantages that theoretically justified the takeover. Most starkly of all, Booz Allen & Hamilton concluded that "the likelihood of failure is greater than 50%, however you measure success - shareholder value, stock price, profitability or attrition." In other words, mergers often...
...reserves and then used tomorrow's optimism," said Lewis, a philanthropist who had given the Guggenheim $50 million and chipped in with an additional $12 million to take the foundation out of an operational deficit. Krens' response: "Peter likes to shoot from the hip." Krens also brought in consultants McKinsey to examine the foundation's business model. As if all that weren't enough, Krens is routinely assailed by New York critics for the quality of some of the Guggenheim's shows. The New York Times dismissed the Guggenheim's Armani show, an exhibition of outfits and sketches currently...
...pointed to the new emphasis on bulk-buying programs—a measure recommended by a McKinsey study released last year—as one way the central administration is helping to cut costs across the University. The study found that the University could save up to $100 million a year through its combined purchasing power...