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A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute, The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow, analyzes more than 3,000 US counties and 315 cities and finds they are on sharply different paths. Automation is not happening in a vacuum, and the health of local economies today will affect their ability to adapt and thrive in the face of the changes that lie ahead.

How do companies deliver exceptional designs, launch after launch? What is design worth? To answer these questions, we have conducted extensive research to study the design actions that leaders can make to unlock business value. For the October 2018 report “The business value of design,” we tracked the design practices of 300 publicly listed companies over a five years, collected more than two million pieces of financial data, and recorded more than 100,000 design actions.

In April, McKinsey published a new report on China's booming luxury market - “China Luxury Report 2019: How young Chinese consumers are reshaping global luxury.” Global brands face new opportunities as luxury represents a powerful form of social capital for young Chinese consumers.