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Global trade explorer
To navigate a more complex and challenging era requires deeper understanding of the full picture of the evolution of global trade flows and the interdependencies and networks created by them.
Advancing adaptation: Mapping costs from cooling to coastal defenses
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The benefits of adaptation far outweigh its costs. Yet, the world today spends just one-third of the amount needed to protect everyone exposed to hazards to developed-economy standards. What would it cost to adapt as the Earth warms, and how much will get spent?
Agents, robots, and us: Skill partnerships in the age of AI
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AI is expanding the productivity frontier. Realizing its benefits requires new skills and rethinking how people work together with intelligent machines.
Capturing the next big arenas of competition in ten charts
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Arenas are industries that transform the business landscape. As 18 future arenas emerge, companies should understand their own exposure and positioning now.
The hard stuff 2025: Taking stock of progress on the physical challenges of the energy transition
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The energy transition is proceeding, but unevenly. Easier challenges are being solved, but harder ones are stalling.
Out of balance: What’s next for growth, wealth, and debt?
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Amid rising economic uncertainty, this research takes a long-term view on wealth and growth rooted in government, corporate, and household balance sheets.
The FDI shake-up: How foreign direct investment today may shape industry and trade tomorrow
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Announced FDI projects signal further changes in the geometry of global trade and the future map of international business.
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Lareina Yee
Bay Area
Global expert and leader of research on AI and frontier technologies; advises companies on growth and transformation
Mekala Krishnan
Boston
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Boston
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The next competitive edge in business? A new skill partnership between humans, agents, and robots
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Major new technologies have always changed how people work—and artificial intelligence may be the most powerful yet. Many worry this means mass job losses. Our research suggests something more nuanced—and ultimately more hopeful. AI, in its current form, works best in collaboration with people, not in place of them. Making that collaboration succeed—and ensuring people thrive—will require rethinking how organizations develop and use skills, from frontline employees to top executives, write Anu Madgavkar and Lareina Yee in Fortune.
Progress but uneven: Energy transition reality check
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As COP30 kicks off in Belem, an inevitable question is where does the energy transition stand? New McKinsey Global Institute research offers an answer, by examining the physical transformation at the heart of the transition, write Chris Bradley, Mekala Krishnan, and Humayun Tai in Fortune.
What we can learn from the shake-up in foreign direct investment
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Sumatra, Bucheon, Debrecen, Phoenix: At first glance, these far-flung places could hardly be less alike. But they have something important in common. They have all attracted significant amounts of foreign direct investment (FDI), writes Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.