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The new management playbook for AI: How to move faster and create more value
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There is a new management playbook emerging for how to run companies better in the age of AI.
Case Study
Reckitt’s transformation: Three moves, one strategic reset
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Reckitt didn’t sequence change. It did three moves at once: transforming its core, separating noncore businesses, and resetting its operating model. That decisive reset cut business complexity, accelerated decisions, and repositioned the company for stronger growth, higher margins, and sustained performance.
Survey
The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI
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Organizations are deploying agentic coding tools and coming to grips with the costs of AI while still seeking to capture more of the benefits that their workers are deriving from their individual use of AI.
Explainers
AI in five industries: What’s now, and what’s next
The headlines are everywhere. The nuance is more elusive. In these video Explainers, McKinsey partners go sector by...
Lives & Legacies
An architect of modern media, a literary champion, and a retail revolutionary
Our latest obituaries also include the first American to scale Mount Everest, a frugal Fed chair, and a fashion cofounder tailor-made...
Chart of the Week
AI job losses fall short of forecasts
Job losses as a result of businesses’ adoption of AI have fallen short of expectations, a McKinsey Global Survey finds. McKinsey’s...
Themes
Reader favorites from our 2026 book recommendations
With nearly 100 titles in McKinsey’s 2026 annual book recommendations, where should you start? See which books fellow readers...
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The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI
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Improving the economics of agentic AI: A guide for business leaders
AI investment is strong and growing even as companies increasingly come to terms with escalating costs – with some organizations seeing LLM spending triple. Business leaders who once left AI decisions to technology teams are now asking hard questions about what they’re getting for all the spend. The real opportunity, however, isn’t in lowering costs but in maximizing returns from agentic AI.
Join senior partners Tanguy Catlin and Lari Hämäläinen as they discuss how to evaluate agentic AI against the fully loaded cost of the work it replaces, what lessons are emerging for better managing costs, and how to better decide where to scale investment and where to pull back.
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Interviews
Podcast - The McKinsey Podcast
Made in America, again? Rethinking US manufacturing resilience
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Rebuilding American manufacturing could cost up to $2 trillion. What will it take to get today’s factories up to speed?
Podcast - Europe on the move
Europe on the move: A conversation with Boerse Stuttgart Group’s CEO
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With 160 years of experience, Boerse Stuttgart Group is Europe’s sixth-largest exchange group, helping position Europe for the future through digital, blockchain innovation, and financial infrastructure.
Podcast
AstraZeneca’s Bob Li on the MARS mission to eliminate cancer
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Bob Li, AstraZeneca’s Senior Vice President, Global Head of Medical Affairs, Oncology, on why only 7 percent of cancer patients get access to clinical trials, and what decentralized trials, AI, and international collaboration could do to change that within a decade.
McKinsey on Books
Author Talks: The biggest misconceptions about leadership
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What if success depends less on talent than on luck, resilience, and your choices when things go wrong? Former Inflection CEO...
Shapers and Founders: The Untold Stories of Asia’s Extraordinary Owner-CEOs
Drawing on rigorous empirical research, interviews, and decades of advisory work, McKinsey experts reveal the leadership strategies...
Rewired, second edition
This updated edition offers brand-new insights into cutting-edge AI solutions—and what it takes to implement them—as...
New from the Quarterly
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...
The new management playbook for AI: How to move faster and create more value
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There is a new management playbook emerging for how to run companies better in the age of AI.
McKinsey Institutes
Podcast - MGI Research
Why progress is more physical than we think
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From tomatoes and copper to data centers and steel, the modern economy depends on a material world hidden in plain sight.
Report - MGI Research
Agents, robots, and us: How AI reshapes work and skills in Europe
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Most skills will still be needed—but how people use them will change as they work alongside intelligent machines.
Interview - McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility
Solutions for the Black maternal-health crisis
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Joy Rhoden of the American Hospital Association discusses how data, community partnerships, expanded care teams, and a focus...
Brainteasers
The McKinsey Crossword: Made with AI | No. 266
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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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