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MAY 2011

How the best labs manage talent

The highest-performing labs use the best talent-management practices. That is no coincidence.

MAY 2011

Preparing your organization for growth

Companies that address their organizational weaknesses as they implement growth strategies give themselves an advantage.
MAY 2011

The challenge—and opportunity—of ‘big data’

A new report explores the explosive growth of digital information and its potential uses.

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MAY 2011

Sustaining top-line growth: The real picture

A historical view shows that beating markets is tougher than most leaders believe.
MAY 2011

When big acquisitions pay off

Some are quietly creating value that doesn’t make the headlines. Here’s how.
MAY 2011

The value proposition in multichannel retailing

Consumers love low prices, but retailers shouldn’t overlook the way shoppers perceive value online and in stores.
MAY 2011

After the earthquake: A more open Japan?

Restructuring and less fractious politics could speed the building of a more balanced and open economy.
MAY 2011

Beyond expats: Better managers for emerging markets

The CEO of Manpower argues that the era of the Western expatriate manager is ending. It’s time for a local approach.
MAY 2011

Paying back your shareholders

Successful companies inevitably face that prospect. The only real question is how.

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APRIL 2011

Segmenting China’s digital consumers

Marketing successfully to China’s soaring population of Internet users will require specific knowledge about how they employ applications and devices.
APRIL 2011

How new Internet standards will finally deliver a mobile revolution

As the Web experience evolves, smartphones may soon live up to their name, and every business’s mobile strategy will grow in importance.

We want you to tell us. In conjunction with Gary Hamel’s Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) and Harvard Business Review, McKinsey is launching a contest to discover new management practices enabled by Web 2.0 tools and technologies.

Visit the MIX site to learn more about the contest and to view a video of Gary Hamel explaining why management must change.

And read our recent Quarterly article “The rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday” to find out how some companies using the Web intensively gain greater market share and higher margins.

MAY 2011

Measuring the Net’s growth dividend

New McKinsey research finds that the Internet now accounts for a significant share of global GDP and plays an increasingly important role in economic growth.

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MAY 2011

Translating innovation into US growth: An advanced-industries perspective

The United States faces a future in which the elements of economic leadership are moving abroad. Reversing these trends will require the private and public sectors to collaborate.
MAY 2011

Can Chinese companies live up to investor expectations?

In a reversal of long-term trends, Chinese companies now enjoy a valuation premium over their peers in developed markets. What’s changed?

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