What Employees Want More Than A Raise in 2012

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The power of storytelling: What nonprofits can teach the private sector about social media

Learn how to harness the power of social media in this case study excerpted from The Dragonfly Effect, by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith. Then hear more from the authors in a conversation with McKinsey's Dan Singer.

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Getting more from your training programs

To improve results from training programs, executives must focus on what happens in the workplace before and after employees go to class. OCTOBER 2010 • Aaron DeSmet, Monica McGurk, and Elizabeth Schwartz

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Boosting the productivity of knowledge workers

The key is identifying and addressing the barriers workers face in their daily interactions. SEPTEMBER 2010 • Eric Matson and Laurence Prusak Source: Strategy Practice

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Clouds, big data, and smart assets: Ten tech-enabled business trends to watch

Advancing technologies and their swift adoption are upending traditional business models. Senior executives need to think strategically about how to prepare their organizations for the challenging new environment. AUGUST 2010 • Jacques Bughin, Michael Chui, and James Manyika

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Making the emotional case for change: An interview with Chip Heath

In conversation and in excerpts from his recent book, a leading expert on organizational behavior explains why change often stalls and how top executives can use psychology to keep it going. MARCH 2010

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Six ways to make Web 2.0 work

Web 2.0 tools present a vast array of opportunities—for companies that know how to use them. Michael Chui, Andy Miller, and Roger P. Roberts February 2009

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The Top Consumer Trends of 2010

From bling to Twitter, London Business School marketing professor Nirmalya Kumar focuses on the trends which will change the world – and how we consume – in the year ahead.

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Virtuously Virtual

The virtual organisation has long been a neat theory. Now organisations throughout the world are turning it into reality. And in a recession, when the going gets tough, truly agile organisations come into their own.

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Using knowledge brokering to improve business processes

New applications of open-innovation principles allow progressive companies to enhance not only their products but also their core internal business processes. JANUARY 2010 • Corey Billington and Rhoda Davidson

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Dynamic management:

Companies can't predict the future, but they can build organizations that will survive and flourish under just about any possible future. Lowell Bryan

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Female power

Dec 30th 2009 From The Economist print edition Across the rich world more women are working than ever before. Coping with this change will be one of the great challenges of the coming decades

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Strategy through turbulence: An interview with Don Sull

London Business School's Don Sull discusses how to find the upside in volatile times. DECEMBER 2009

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Competing through organizational agility

Three distinct types—strategic, portfolio, and operational—help companies compete. Each of them has its own sources and dangers. DECEMBER 2009 • Donald Sull

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How Web 2.0 is changing the way we work: An interview with MIT's Andrew McAfee

Web 2.0 technologies are changing the way companies do business. But can these tools help them achieve their goals? NOVEMBER 2009 Source: Business Technology Office

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Motivating people: Getting beyond money

The economic slump offers business leaders a chance to more effectively reward talented employees by emphasizing nonfinancial motivators rather than bonuses. NOVEMBER 2009 • Martin Dewhurst, Matthew Guthridge, and Elizabeth Mohr Source: Organization Practice

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Finance competencies best practices

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Making a market in talent

21st-century company should put as much effort into developing its talented employees as it puts into recruiting them. MAY 2006 • Lowell L. Bryan, Claudia I. Joyce, and Leigh M. Weiss

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Making a market in knowledge

For companies and their employees alike, knowledge is power—and profit. AUGUST 2004 • Lowell L. Bryan

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McKinsey conversations with global leaders: Paul Polman of Unilever

Unilever's chief executive reflects on lessons learned at three major consumer goods companies, including how to manage people in a global context, the obligations corporations have to society, and why you should never waste a good crisis.

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Mastering sales force integration in a merger

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Innovative management: A conversation with Gary Hamel and Lowell Bryan

Forward-looking executives must respond to the growing need for a new managerial model. NOVEMBER 2007 • Joanna Barsh

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Reshaping Cisco : The world according to Chambers

Cisco's chairman and chief executive is stretching his company in all directions. Can it hold together?

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Harnessing the power of informal employee networks

Formalizing a company's ad hoc peer groups can spur collaboration and unlock value.

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The new metrics of corporate performance: Profit per employee

Most measurements of performance are geared to the needs of 20th-century manufacturing companies. Times have changed. Metrics must change as well. FEBRUARY 2007 • Lowell L. Bryan

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