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Managing geopolitical value at stake to seize opportunities while mitigating risk
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Assessing the enterprise value linked to geopolitical shifts and embracing agility can help multinational companies thrive in a volatile and fragmented world.
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McKinsey and ALICE Technologies collaborate to transform capital project delivery with generative scheduling
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The alliance brings AI- and advanced-analytics-enabled scheduling to project delivery, allowing owners and contractors to move faster, manage risk, and unlock measurable value.
Report
State of Food and Beverage: The choices CPG leaders can make to renew growth
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The slow erosion of value in the consumer goods industry is now speeding up. Leaders need to reshape their portfolios, sharpen their value propositions, and fully harness tech and AI—or risk ceding ground.
Explainers
What is sovereign AI?
Three McKinsey experts explain what sovereign AI really means—and why control over the AI stack is becoming a strategic priority...
Lives & Legacies
A maestro of management, a pension fund strategist, and a true game changer
Our latest obituaries also include a designer who redefined red-carpet glamour, a versatile block trader, and a surgeon whose...
Week in Charts
Personalizing care to restore consumer trust
Healthcare is deeply personal—yet for many US consumers, it feels distant, costly, and confusing, eroding already fragile trust....
Themes
From implementation to impact: What leading organizations get right with AI
When Reckitt, a global leader in home and consumer health care products, set out to redefine revenue growth management, AI was...
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How top economic performers lean into their competitive advantage to guide their strategy
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Can the US sustain its competitive edge?
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New research examines how AI, talent, infrastructure, and debt are converging to reshape US competitiveness—and what CEOs, boards, and other leaders can do about it.
Interview
Paving the road for AI agents: Interview with Factory CEO Matan Grinberg
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Factory CEO and cofounder Matan Grinberg discusses why scaling AI in software engineering depends less on flashy demos and more on changes to the operating model and how teams work.
Podcast
Sam Hazen on reaching patients during healthcare’s flux
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Sam Hazen, CEO of HCA Healthcare, reflects on the state of the industry and how emerging technologies and steadfast leadership can help meet patients where they are.
Podcast
From dashboards to decisions: Empowering merchants with agentic AI
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Agentic AI can automate routine work and improve merchandising decisions at scale. Two McKinsey experts discuss what it takes to translate potential into performance.
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Author Talks: Rewiring to outcompete with AI
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In the second edition of Rewired, McKinsey authors explore how leading companies move faster and what changes they make...
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, 8th edition
At the crossroads of corporate strategy and finance lies valuation. This book enables everyone, from the budding professional...
Rewired, second edition
This updated edition offers brand-new insights into cutting-edge AI solutions—and what it takes to implement them—as...
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McKinsey Quarterly: Digital Edition
Agentic AI is such a powerful force that companies are rethinking the very nature of the corporation. What’s coming? A hybrid...
Recent McKinsey Quarterly digital issues
Explore previous digital issues of the McKinsey Quarterly—on gen AI, productivity, growth, and more. All are available with a...
Managing geopolitical value at stake to seize opportunities while mitigating risk
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Assessing the enterprise value linked to geopolitical shifts and embracing agility can help multinational companies thrive in...
McKinsey Institutes
Report - McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility
The Great Ownership Transfer: A new era of business stewardship
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As millions of baby boomers retire, the United States is on the brink of an unprecedented wave of small-business ownership transitions—posing...
Interactive - McKinsey Health Institute
The health of nations: The return to better health, by country
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Explore how improving population health could deliver meaningful gains in healthy life and economic performance across countries....
Report - MGI Research
The race takes off in the next big arenas of competition
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In the arenas, investment cycles are accelerating, value pools are shifting, and a new type of competitor is scaling across industries....
Brainteasers
The McKinsey Crossword: Quarterly report | No. 265
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Sharpen your problem-solving skills with the McKinsey Quarterly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind and is built around a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find.
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