March 03, 2009
Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller? - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - Nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of the paycheck brought home by a woman and the larger one earned by a man doing the same job. Economists cite a few reasons: discriminatio...
Akkam's Razor
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February 28, 2009
“Behind every successful woman there is an astonished man.” Last year I wrote about the global glass ceiling; today I have seven fascinating articles on corporate women. More of the same—or are things changing? Kids don’t think so; in fact they’re more pessimistic. “T...
Leadership Turn
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Miki Saxon
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February 24, 2009
Marguerite Manteau-Rao highlights top results from a McKinsey survey of executives on the topic of Web 2.0 adoption. Some of the results include the necessity for senior leadership to help the bottom up initiatives: “senior executives often become role models and lead through informal channels.�...
The Buzz Bin
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Mike Nelson
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December 29, 2008
Filed under: Festivus, Celebrities, Obituaries, Reality-Free This is always the most depressing end-of-year list -- the TV people (in front of and behind the camera) who died during the past year. This is a big list, but if we forgot anyone, let us know in the comments (and check out the obituary ca...
TV Squad
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Bob Sassone
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December 12, 2008
When Idris Jala was hired as CEO of a failing state-owned airline he had exactly three and-a-half months operating cash in which to turn it around—no bail out, no other options. He succeeded well beyond expectations with a combination of laser focus on the P&L statement and his own view of lea...
Leadership Turn
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Miki Saxon
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December 02, 2008
Eric Wolff went to work for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company after graduating from college in the spring of 2005. As he described it at the time on his Facebook page, he spent the following summer reading books that “warn of the inadequacy of the American Dream, and how it tempts general...
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Leon Neyfakh
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November 22, 2008
Over the years, companies have found some levels of success by combining "lean" production methods with the famed "Six Sigma" initatives. According to McKinsey researchers, Exhibit A is Toyota which has  consistently done well with such disciplined approaches (especially when contrasted against de...
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Peter Galuszka
at 1:09 PM
June 27, 2008
Saying goodbye can be a hard thing to do. But it is a necessary part of the creative process and is good management, according to a new McKinsey Quarterly study. Too often, executives stick to what was once thought a bold and brilliant idea. But when the idea goes bad, inherent biases keep managemen...
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June 18, 2008
The first year of study for a PhD in Marketing is a confusing affair. I vividly remember long days spent at Lancaster trying to decode the journals of marketing with the creeping sensation that I may have bitten off more than I could chew. The first theoretical model I fully understood was the Hiera...
Branding Strategy Insider
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June 15, 2008
WHILE AMERICA AGED How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis By Roger Lowenstein Penguin Press. 274 pp. $25.95 For a married couple, talking about money can be hard. But the cost of using a credit card to put off ......
Wash Post Book World
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