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Lowell Bryan

Lowell Bryan has been leading a research effort on how to manage a company in the 21st century and coauthored a recent book on the subject, Mobilizing Minds: Creating Wealth from Talent in the 21st-Century Organization. The book describes how new organizing approaches such as formal networks, talent marketplaces, and knowledge marketplaces can be used to mobilize mind power within large companies. Lowell's previous book was Race for the World: Strategies to Build a Great Global Firm, published by the Harvard Business School Press in 1999.

 

Lowell's recent publications include:

Lowell L. Bryan

Director

Lowell L. Bryan is a director based in New York. He devotes most of his time to serving the top management of several large clients on a wide range of issues of corporate strategy and organization (particularly on issues of organizational structure, talent management, and performance management).

Lowell has spoken and written extensively—particularly on strategy, organization, and financial services topics—for the past 30 years. He has been a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal editorial page and has had articles published in numerous periodicals, including the Harvard Business Review and The McKinsey Quarterly.

Lowell is president of Touch Foundation, Inc., a foundation focused on increasing the number and productivity of healthcare workers—particularly in Africa.

He earned a B.A. from Davidson College in 1968 and an M.B.A., with distinction, from the Harvard Business School in 1970. Prior to joining McKinsey in 1975, he worked for the State Street Bank of Boston.

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