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Capturing its benefits requires developing new professional pathways and skills, and reducing barriers between declining and growing occupations. https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/workforce-in-motion-skills-and-pathways-to-future-jobs-in-the-united-states 68e3d8fa-e50f-43b1-813e-21f1281666ad Tue, 29 Sep 2026 Research High Tech & Internet McKinsey Global Institute United States Artificial Intelligence Labor markets Managing in Uncertainty Human resources Management processes Productivity Disruptive Technology MGI Research Subsidized AI pilots are expiring as usage explodes. Here’s how US public sector leaders can treat AI spend as a managed category before the bill arrives. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/the-next-phase-of-government-ai-economics 42a5958b-83d2-4141-83ae-99e737395b8e Tue, 29 Sep 2026 Public Sector Insights Public Sector Government United States Artificial Intelligence Corporate Finance Mikhail Lomtadze, cofounder and CEO of Kaspi, believes the only measure that matters is whether Kaspi makes customers’ lives better or not—and why that single conviction changes everything else. https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-asia/make-life-better-mikhail-lomtadzes-customer-first-philosophy a6dc8083-ff0c-41a0-999f-9eadc0996ec7 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 Future of Asia Health Care Asia-Pacific Generative AI Innovation Nearly 90 percent of companies are investing in AI, but only 6 percent see material impact. The difference is in how they approach it. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/growth-marketing-and-sales/our-insights/how-leaders-are-turning-ai-into-growth 6861d937-7980-426a-8433-ad087d47779b Tue, 29 Sep 2026 Growth, Marketing & Sales Insights Growth, Marketing & Sales Growth Fear and change can go hand in hand. Executives who understand this can significantly improve their odds of transformation success, while the executives who don’t risk sabotaging their change programs. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organization/our-insights/leading-when-change-feels-threatening ccd82438-6a14-402e-a06c-fa431e77ee14 Tue, 29 Sep 2026 Insights on People & Organization People & Organization Leadership Organization Commodity markets have entered a new era of persistent volatility. For fuel retailers, this is a chance to strengthen resilience and unlock value, but only with strategic investment and a shift in mindset. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/oil-and-gas/our-insights/navigating-the-new-normal-building-resilience-in-fuel-retail-trading 50805ec7-d388-436b-ab41-2e520b1db0c0 Mon, 28 Sep 2026 Oil & Gas Insights Oil & Natural Gas Retail & Consumer Goods United States Operations Risk Management Analytics As AI reshapes roles, leaders face a bigger question: how to rethink jobs, teams, and the way work gets done in a fundamentally different era. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organization/our-insights/ai-is-changing-how-we-work-is-your-organization-ready 1a6db8a4-6f22-4435-9663-6a8d6d3ebc9d Mon, 28 Sep 2026 Insights on People & Organization People & Organization Organization AI won’t replace clinicians, but it can improve quality, increase access, and reshape the workforce, payments, and patient volumes. Today, AI can perform some 16 to 22 percent of US outpatient care. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare/our-insights/the-ai-powered-future-of-care 2839796b-37d3-4bb8-a0b2-abe911dcffdb Mon, 28 Sep 2026 Insights on Healthcare Systems & Services Health Care Healthcare United States Generative AI As AI reshapes how consumers browse, shop, and buy, retailers must choose a mission for every location—and commit to it. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/retail/our-insights/convenience-or-discovery-which-mission-will-your-store-serve 7e186a3c-d9c0-4fa1-b932-be428684329d Mon, 28 Sep 2026 Retail Insights Retail & Consumer Goods Real estate Retail United States Consumer insights Artificial Intelligence Our new analysis reveals the odds of reaching $1 billion in sales—and how the paths to that milestone differ by category and ownership. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/consumer-packaged-goods/our-insights/billion-dollar-beauty-the-odds-of-scaling-a-breakout-brand 4e8925f4-3256-4d95-81a5-49562a3e8c45 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 Consumer Packaged Goods Insights Consumer packaged goods Bret Taylor, Sierra cofounder and OpenAI chair, believes AI’s near-term cybersecurity risks are real but solvable, and its greater power lies in delivering the world’s best knowledge to everyone. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/tech-and-ai/our-insights/democratized-superintelligence-is-coming-the-world-needs-to-get-ready d615c9c1-4094-4508-89c9-b19b80ac0286 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 Digital Insights Cybersecurity/Risk Disruptive Technology Managing in Uncertainty The McKinsey Podcast At Cannes Lions 2026, LinkedIn CMO Jessica Jensen and McKinsey senior partner Dianne Esber discussed what it takes to turn AI from experimentation into a catalyst for growth. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/growth-marketing-and-sales/our-insights/the-new-growth-mandate-a-conversation-with-linkedin-cmo-jessica-jensen a2336e31-d9ac-4aad-b4b6-b47e7cb32324 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 Growth, Marketing & Sales Insights Media & Entertainment Marketing & Sales Generative AI Growth AI could improve both safety and productivity by anticipating problems before they arise, detecting worker fatigue, and automating dangerous tasks. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/metals-and-mining/our-insights/harnessing-ai-to-make-mining-safer f5bb66e0-9796-4ca0-95b6-0741515b6a81 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 Metals & Mining Insights Mining Generative AI Embedding the latest AI and technology within day-to-day operations is transforming maintenance from a cost center into a significant driver of value. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/operations/our-insights/maintenance-meets-ai-a-proven-approach-for-asset-heavy-industries 640f46a1-e6f0-4a00-9957-0874c08f5d22 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 Insights on Operations Automotive Aerospace Machinery & industrial goods Mining Oil & Natural Gas Logistics Operations Artificial Intelligence How does business ownership compare with owning a sports team? 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How can travel players show up at every turn on the path from search to certainty? https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/travel/our-insights/winning-hearts-in-an-age-of-infinite-travel-choices 35284b9a-099d-49e7-8bc9-63ca1b0cd1a5 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 Insights on Travel Travel Consumer insights Artificial Intelligence New McKinsey Health Institute analysis finds that addressing modifiable risk factors could add 12 years to healthy life expectancy at birth and add nearly 9 percent to the global economy by 2050. https://www.mckinsey.com/mhi/our-insights/the-future-of-healthy-living-a-16-4-trillion-opportunity 673a2c2e-8e4e-4c0f-b896-839e8f2eee77 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 Our Insights Health Care Economic Studies McKinsey Health Institute US manufacturers have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reshore the production of critical and at-risk goods, but to do so, they will need to aggressively ramp up production from today’s levels. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/operations/our-insights/ready-to-ramp-how-us-manufacturers-can-scale-at-pace cd7f01ff-8539-4dc7-be3a-a181d07a6301 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 Insights on Operations Manufacturing United States Operations Artificial Intelligence The 10th edition of McKinsey’s automotive consumer survey: China’s car buyers reveal where value is heading—and why the road ahead is exciting for consumers everywhere. https://www.mckinsey.com/cn/our-insights/our-insights/value-is-the-compass-consumers-set-the-pace 067f07d3-acad-44ce-94af-f52efa84ee65 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 Our Insights Automotive China WIRED’s Katie Drummond talks with McKinsey’s Dan Swan about why capturing AI’s full potential requires companies to move beyond experimentation and fundamentally rewire their businesses. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/tech-and-ai/our-insights/wired-the-ai-playbook-top-companies-use 812f59b9-59df-453a-b69b-5511452d07eb Mon, 21 Sep 2026 Digital Insights Generative AI Organization AI is getting more expensive for companies. As rising token usage and workflow complexity make costs harder to predict, leaders need new ways to manage AI economics. https://www.mckinsey.com/quarterly/the-five-fifty/five-fifty-the-economics-of-ai b088534f-4905-44c7-948f-0b96e4bb3ef2 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 The Five Fifty McKinsey Quarterly Novartis’s chief data and digital officer for biomedical research explains how data platform investments are paying off in AI safety prediction, generative chemistry, and faster translation. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/life-sciences/our-insights/novartiss-christian-diehl-on-scaling-ai-beyond-the-demo cabfef8a-cf78-47e6-8d97-6ee0863708c9 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 Insights on Life Sciences Pharmaceuticals Generative AI Innovation Organization AI is accelerating drug discovery, but investment has concentrated in molecule design—the stage with the best data and clearest tools. The industry’s real constraint lies elsewhere: identifying and validating the right disease mechanism. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/life-sciences/our-insights/ai-drug-discovery-focusing-on-what-matters-most 536edabf-e022-46b5-bdf5-84101b58e495 Mon, 21 Sep 2026 Insights on Life Sciences Pharmaceuticals Generative AI Innovation Strategy Six design dimensions can help states stand up social care referral networks that meaningfully improve health outcomes for Medicaid members in rural and underserved communities. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/social-care-referral-networks-improving-health-in-rural-communities f4ddb5e7-eb17-407f-88a3-72cb2f690389 Fri, 18 Sep 2026 Public Sector Insights Public Sector Public health Medicaid Public Sector North and Central America Operations Alliances What compels us to act when we see a problem? Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation CEO Jim Bildner reflects on social entrepreneurship, personal loss, and how hope can move us to act. https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-on-books/author-talks-how-to-turn-hope-into-action b4cd5a6a-00d1-4b53-a8b5-908b85edb3c2 Fri, 18 Sep 2026 McKinsey on Books Social Sector Leadership Corporate Social Responsibility Managing in Uncertainty A new era of increased demand and constrained supply is fundamentally changing the global transformer market and reshaping decision-making across the value chain. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/electric-power-and-natural-gas/our-insights/the-transformer-supercycle-why-demand-is-outrunning-supply e5b46f6a-ecba-4341-b80f-9ddd2e92e6a7 Fri, 18 Sep 2026 Insights on Electric Power & Natural Gas Electric Power Manufacturing Infrastructure Operations Growth Sustainability AI is fueling unprecedented semiconductor growth while upending long-standing industry dynamics and shifting the sources of value. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/semiconductors/our-insights/the-2-point-3-trillion-dollar-horizon-how-ai-is-rewriting-the-semiconductor-story 6159604c-a484-4b18-90f7-b699434f3596 Fri, 18 Sep 2026 Insights on Semiconductors Semiconductors Artificial Intelligence Growth Organizations must redesign workflows to realize value from AI, but the challenge is where to begin. An opportunity lies between workflow steps, where work passes between teams and systems. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/industrials/our-insights/cutting-the-coordination-tax-how-agentic-ai-can-reshape-workflows 0a66ae68-8b65-476c-b61e-fe9ea4b6b37b Fri, 18 Sep 2026 Insights on Industrials Manufacturing Artificial Intelligence Organization Operations Genentech’s chief marketing officer discusses AI, the future of marketing, patient trust, and why growth depends as much on culture as technology. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/growth-marketing-and-sales/our-insights/the-cmo-as-impact-driver-a-conversation-with-genentech-cmo-zoe-lazarre 934d83aa-9b4c-41ee-84b7-64c571565b5b Thu, 17 Sep 2026 Growth, Marketing & Sales Insights Health Care Marketing & Sales Artificial Intelligence Growth Five common behavioral patterns can cause change efforts to falter. Know the warning signs—and what to do about them. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/transformation/our-insights/why-transformations-stall-and-where-only-ceos-make-the-difference e182421b-f478-4164-898d-7ecee2015f4d Thu, 17 Sep 2026 Transformation Insights Organization Leadership The McKinsey Podcast As enterprises shift from experimenting with models to redesigning workflows, new research suggests Europe could be well-positioned for this new AI application era. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/europes-new-ai-edge-the-emerging-application-layer-opportunity fb3c1edd-e70a-4250-90a5-a784e8939408 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 Our Insights High Tech & Internet Europe Generative AI Innovation Technology adoption and innovation The energy system has proven surprisingly resilient, but shock absorbers are thinning. Energy security has no easy exits but room to maneuver. https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our-research/aftershocks-energy-security-beyond-the-strait-of-hormuz-crisis 0faea7f9-ae6d-4f94-9fd7-bef07c01e46c Thu, 17 Sep 2026 Research Energy, Resources & Materials Agriculture Logistics Manufacturing Public & Social Sector McKinsey Global Institute China Japan South Korea Europe Middle East Iran North America South America Commodity markets Geopolitics Macroeconomics Globalization Emerging Markets Managing in Uncertainty Supply chain management MGI Research Not every industrial company in a high-growth market earns a higher valuation. The biggest winners consistently combine four management actions. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/heres-why-some-us-industrial-companies-achieve-higher-multiples d4a71a24-488d-42cd-9ffa-f09f8d58e425 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights Manufacturing Corporate Finance Strategy Growth Successful transformations no longer require an army of people at the center. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/transformation/our-insights/the-agentic-transformation-office-redefining-the-economics-of-change 3772a9c8-d145-459c-8b78-0695791ca376 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 Transformation Insights Client loyalty evolves quickly. Leading banks are reclaiming the 12 to 25 percent of wallet share that changes hands every year instead of letting it drift. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/anchor-or-drift-what-it-takes-to-capture-wallet-share-in-2026 ba6218e7-064f-4dc6-a224-0b788e0091ff Wed, 16 Sep 2026 Insights on Financial Services Investment banking United Kingdom United States Corporate strategy UK banks have never been more profitable—but have rarely been more exposed. Success depends on securing customers and deposits, winning the commercial transaction layer, and rebuilding the cost base. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/the-decade-to-redefine-uk-banking e5fc4fc2-9eba-4844-a736-70827b283460 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 Insights on Financial Services Financial Services Artificial Intelligence As their portfolios become more complex and productivity gains slow, biopharma manufacturers are investing heavily to keep pace with rising demand. But capacity alone will not solve the problem. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/life-sciences/our-insights/backbones-and-networks-a-blueprint-for-the-biopharma-plant-of-the-future 83feff1e-7133-400f-87a6-3756581300c3 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 Insights on Life Sciences Pharmaceuticals Operations AI is not the only significant driver of change for insurers: 18 high-growth industries present major new opportunities even as they reconfigure industry economics. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-insights/the-strategic-new-arenas-reshaping-insurance 15cde638-051a-4973-bb95-14a313945a4b Tue, 15 Sep 2026 Insights on Financial Services Insurance Growth Strategy