10 posts and columns on McKinsey

Levo League Wants to Help You Find a Job — If You’re a Gen-Y Woman (Video)

in Social on March 20 at 5:00 am PT

There are plenty of places on the Web to network, job-hunt and look for career advice. Caroline Ghosn and Amanda Pouchot explain why their new site is different.
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PageYank: As New SVPs Are Born at Google in CEO Reorg, What Happens to the Old Ones?

in News on April 8, 2011 at 12:15 am PT

Things are sure shaking over at Google, since the sudden departure on Monday of Jonathan Rosenberg, Google’s head of product management, and the appointment of a passel of new SVPs. What’s next in newly installed CEO and Co-founder Larry Page’s GoogQuake?

Media Consultant Michael Wolf Is a Media Consultant Again

in Media on February 24, 2010 at 9:01 pm PT

It must be “hang out your shingle week” for big media vets. First, CBS digital dealmaker Quincy Smith and crew formally unveiled his M&A shop after months of planning. And here’s Michael Wolf, the longtime media consultant last seen at Viacom. He’s back to consulting again.

Twitter Taps Pixar Exec as CFO

in Social on February 10, 2010 at 3:48 pm PT

Twitter has finally found a chief financial officer. Ali Rowghani, currently CFO and senior VP of strategic planning at Pixar Animation Studios, will bring his financial acumen to the microblogging service come March.

Here Are the Condé Nast Cuts: Modern Bride, Elegant Bride, Gourmet, Cookie Closing

in Media on October 5, 2009 at 7:56 am PT

Here are the long-awaited cuts that Condé Nast has been mulling: Modern Bride, Elegant Bride, Gourmet and Cookie are all closing. More details via an internal memo from CEO Chuck Townsend.
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Shhhhhh! Media, Tech Moguls Meeting Today. Don’t Tell Anyone!

in Media on November 11, 2008 at 8:08 am PT

Under normal circumstances, if the CEOs of big companies like Cisco, Microsoft, and Comcast speak in front of an audience of bigwigs, it’s news. But you’re unlikely to hear what John Chambers, Steve Ballmer and Brian Roberts say today and tomorrow at Quadrangle’s Foursquare conference–no press allowed. Unless…

MicroHoo: Anticipation …

in News on May 2, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Time to Get Rid of Those Two-Stroke Diesel Data Centers

in News on May 1, 2008 at 1:26 pm PT

Now that venture capitalists are so taken with green tech, perhaps they can push some VC dollars toward the development of a greener data center. Because according to consultancy McKinsey, data centers are fast becoming the Superfund sites of the tech industry. McKinsey found that data centers are responsible for 0.3% of the world’s carbon-dioxide [...]

The Sheryl Sandberg PR Tour Rolls Into Town!

in News on April 15, 2008 at 5:55 am PT

Mark Zuckerberg? Who’s that? Now, at Facebook, it’s apparently the Season of Sandberg! Ah, the appeal of a fresh face is just irresistible to the press–OK, including BoomTown, except we posted more than a month ago!–with two major pieces, in Fortune and The Wall Street Journal, rolling out this week alone, with everything you wanted [...]