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...McKinsey & Co. survey—sponsored by HLS as part of its long-range planning—highlighted large class sizes and poor faculty-student interaction as major sources of student complaint...
...coms were clearly overhyped and the truly innovative uses of the Internet are yet to be invented. Instead, it is Wal-Mart—prosaic, big, boxy, uncool, rural Wal-Mart from Bentonville, Arkansas—that has changed the way business is done in America. McKinsey, the same company that a lot of my senior classmates will be working for next year, recently released a study detailing just how important Wal-Mart is. Their findings, available online, show that Wal-Mart accounted for 27 percent of all general retail sales in America in 1995, a staggering market share that...
Microsoft aside, it’s unusual for someone talking about the business practices of one company to be able to claim economic ramifications applicable to the whole country, but McKinsey shows that to be precisely the case with Wal-Mart. From its founding in Bentonville in 1962 to today’s 1600 stores, 1000 supercenters, 1000 international stores and 500 Sam’s Clubs, Wal-Mart has gotten to the point where it is a macroeconomic force in the countries in which it operates...
...McKinsey & Co. study of the school criticized HLS for its lack of student-faculty interaction and identified a number of student complaints, such as a lack of feedback on their work...
...they were with his boss and mentor, Skilling. It was Skilling who provided the strategic vision behind Enron, who transformed its old gas-pipeline culture into a swaggering, rule-breaking, dealmaking cult that ultimately mislaid its analytical skills and perhaps its moral compass. Skilling, a Harvard M.B.A. and former McKinsey & Co. consultant, had a high-wattage intellect that always impressed. Even when he was a student, people who met him knew he would do something...