McKinsey Resilient Growth & Transformation Summit

Interviews with more than 100 chief human resources officers and people leaders reveal how the HR operating model is changing to drive value in a volatile business environment.

People keep quitting at record levels, yet companies are still trying to attract and retain them the same old ways. New research identifies five types of workers that employers can reach to fill jobs.

Nearly half of the employees who voluntarily left the workforce during the pandemic aren’t coming back on their own. Employers must go and get them. Here’s how to start.

Financial institutions will play a leading role in the transition to a net-zero economy. To maximize the opportunity, they must make fundamental changes across portfolios and organizations.

What practical actions could countries take now to ensure that the energy transition both accelerates and proceeds in an orderly fashion?

To make the world as sustainable and inclusive as we hope, a certain kind of economic growth will be necessary—and companies will play a vital role in generating it.

Amid turbulence on the path to net zero, leaders will have to be much nimbler to balance resilience with an energy future that is secure, affordable, and clean. Five actions can help.

Value chains are facing increased uncertainty. A threefold approach underpinned by artificial intelligence can help companies adapt to rapidly changing markets and operational challenges.

Recent cyberattacks focus attention on the vulnerabilities of operations technology to web-based threats.

Incumbents are experiencing more frequent and more severe service disruptions as they accelerate their digital capabilities. To build IT resilience, they must adopt seven core practices.

After one of its most successful years, Europe’s private banking industry will now need to navigate an uncertain macroeconomic outlook and evolving client needs.

Updated annually, our Global Banking Annual Review offers the best of our research and insights into the global banking industry. Explore the findings from past years’ reports.

The current model of universal retail banking is unsustainable over the long term. To thrive, banks need to reinvent themselves, focusing on businesses where they can achieve and extend market leadership in the new digital world.

Initially this crisis will be positive for banks’ earnings, and leaders will take rapid and bold steps in their attempts to outperform the competition. The time to act is now.

In a period of ongoing macroeconomic and geopolitical upheaval, the global payments ecosystem is once again demonstrating resilience.

After recording a widely positive performance in 2021, the sporting-goods industry has seen multiple challenges in the past year, including the threat of global recession, war in Europe, continued supply chain challenges, and rapidly rising interest rates—all contributing to a world in disarray. Resilience will be key to tackling the highly uncertain environment and preparing for the next wave of growth.

Consumer behavior keeps shifting, the economy is weakening, and inflation remains high. Yet consumer-packaged-goods companies have the opportunity to thrive amid uncertainty.

Consumer-goods makers’ supply chains are weathering enormous strain. Here’s a quick look at how to strengthen them for the future.

Recent developments have complicated the outlook for industry profit pools.

As the life sciences industry is tested by an uncertain economic environment, companies can focus not only on resilience but on positioning themselves to accelerate when coming out of the downturn.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for resilience in vaccine manufacturing. Five considerations can help national public-health leaders plan.

Leveraging digital and analytics advances can unlock significant value for biopharma companies through gains in quality, speed, agility, and resilience.

The recent market downturn has affected biotechs worldwide. But the fundamentals are still strong in Europe, where companies have an opportunity to lead the next phase of bioscience innovation.

Life sciences companies pursuing a step change in performance have obtained mixed results. Adhering to five principles can greatly improve the odds of a large transformation program succeeding.

Battery demand is growing—and so is the need for better solutions along the value chain.

Results from the 2022 McKinsey Global Industrial Robotics Survey reveal that industrial companies are set to spend heavily on robotics and automation. However, many will need help to complete the journey.

What practical actions could countries take now to ensure that the energy transition both accelerates and proceeds in an orderly fashion?

In the coming years, winning companies will prioritize digital to build business resilience through customer-centric innovation, talent acquisition and retention, and operational excellence.

Transition to greener products may be challenging, but it’s feasible. However, achieving scale will be a significant hurdle in a world where demand for green materials will soon outstrip supply if targets and commitments are taken seriously.

Despite the best intentions, many travel companies are struggling to reduce their emissions fast enough. A report by McKinsey and Skift provides four practical recommendations.

The transition to net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions will take trillions of dollars and several decades. Here’s how B2B leaders can extract maximum value from the journey.

A 600-executive survey reveals how services organizations can adapt to a remote-first world by revamping their operating models and carefully tailoring commercial models to match.

This McKinsey report offers a detailed look at the economic and societal impact of the transition to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.