James Kaplan

Angry Middle-Aged Man

February 5, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic New Yorker article by James Kaplan, published in the January 19, 2004, issue. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration by Steve Brodner  *…

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Safeguarding against cyberattack in an increasingly digital world

October 13, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written last year by Jim Boehm, James Kaplan, and Wolf Richter for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign…

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Rewiring Citi for the digital age

February 1, 2017

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Don Callahan for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. Citigroup’s Head of Operations and Technology describes the bank’s efforts to accelerate its digital transition, as well as the importance…

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Beyond Cybersecurity: A book review by Bob Morris

June 11, 2016

Beyond Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Digital Business James Kaplan, Tucker Bailey, Derek O’Halloran, Alan Marcus, and Chris Rezek John Wiley & Sons (2015) How and why all organizations must develop digital resilience to establish and then sustain cybersecurity First of all,…

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Ten books to make you a better business technologist

May 27, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by James Kaplan for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription information, and register…

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Becoming a better business technologist

May 24, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from a transcript of an interview of James Kaplan for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete transcript, listen to the podcast, check out other resources, learn more about the…

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Getting Under His Skin: A New Biography of Frank Sinatra

November 6, 2015

Here is an excerpt from Edward Kosner‘s review in The Wall Street Journal of James Kaplan’s recently published Sinatra: The Chairman, a biography of a “mother-ridden boyhood in Jersey, bobby-sox mania, career eclipse, Ava Gardner, super-stardom, Rat Pack shenanigans, the…

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McKinsey Quarterly: The Ten Most Popular Articles (Third Quarter 2015)

October 2, 2015

These are the ten articles that have been most popular with readers of the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription information, and register…

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Risk and responsibility in a hyperconnected world: Implications for enterprises

February 13, 2014

In an article they co-authored, David Chinn, James Kaplan, and Allen Weinberg discuss a new report from the World Economic Forum and McKinsey & Company that suggests, for the world’s economy to get full value from technological innovation, it must…

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