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How Strategy Champions win
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Only one in five companies believe they have high-quality strategy. What do such Strategy Champions have in common? They excel at designing bold strategies—and are even better at mobilizing their execution.
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We’re all techies now: Digital skill building for the future
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Digital upskilling is not just for tech teams anymore—it can help all employees thrive and make companies more competitive. Here’s how your organization can get started.
Podcast
Why learning to code still matters
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Are AI capabilities making learning to code obsolete? Not according to the leaders at Kode With Klossy, who say that coding can lead to many career skills that apply across industries.
Explainers
What is an EV?
EVs are powered by electricity and an electric motor, rather than a more conventional, gasoline-fueled internal combustion engine....
Week in Charts
Nigeria’s narrow career pipeline for women
In Nigeria, while women’s representation remains steady across the various rungs of the career ladder, entry-level representation...
Themes
9 standout books on AI and tech
AI is reshaping industries far beyond tech. In McKinsey’s latest state of AI survey, more than 78 percent of respondents said...
Lives & Legacies
A clothier turned philanthropist, the dad behind a ‘leap’ in learning, and a ‘key’ curator of African art
Our May obituaries also include a celebrity optician, a legendary blind guitarist who saw the world through music, and a renowned...
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Economic conditions outlook, June 2025
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Surveyed executives increasingly point to changes to trade policy and relationships as a disruptive force they expect to affect the world economy, their countries, and their companies.
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McKinsey Insights app: Leadership and business insights
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Interviews
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Getting an ERP transformation back on track
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The country CFO of METRO Austria took on the company’s ERP challenge, finding success in focusing on issues that had nothing to do with technology.
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World in color: How Sudarshan became a global pigment powerhouse
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Rajesh Rathi, chairman and managing director of Sudarshan Chemical Industries Limited, shares how the family-led company moved into the global arena to become a serious player in pigments.
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Scaling Europe’s defense industry: An interview with Micael Johansson
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President and CEO of Saab, Micael Johansson, discusses the significant role that innovation can play in scaling systems and solutions to increase security in Europe.
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Technology is changing the business landscape faster than ever, driven by advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum computing, and more. Of all the developments happening today, 13 trends stand out for their potential to reshape industries and create new growth opportunities.
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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...
The Broken Rung
The broken rung is a phenomenon even more pervasive than the glass ceiling in holding women back from career success. This book...
Author Talks: Return to the office, or work from anywhere?
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Return-to-office mandates are on the rise. A labor economist explains why this trend isn’t sustainable and why a work-from-anywhere...
New from the Quarterly
Since 1964, McKinsey Quarterly has delivered our most distinctive, crosscutting insights. We’re delighted to mark its 60th birthday with a yearlong celebration featuring special issues, interactive experiences, and bonus compilations.
McKinsey Quarterly: 60th birthday edition
In this special issue—the third in the Quarterly’s 60th birthday celebration—we focus on how companies...
Revolutionary innovations propelling growth
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Innovation is a critical ingredient in any growth recipe. And the biggest growth—both for the innovator and the broader...
McKinsey Classics special issue: Growth
What’s the ultimate driver for CEOs and the top issue for their organizations? Growth. This bonus collection of 18 classic...
McKinsey Institutes
Article - MGI Research
The great trade rearrangement
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A newly defined “rearrangement ratio” gauges the potential to rearrange US imports from China and how this could...
Report - McKinsey Health Institute
The path toward a metabolic health revolution
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The advent of weight management drugs such as GLP-1s have brought the treatment of obesity to the forefront of public attention,...
Article - McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility
Who is Rural America?
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There is little agreement on how to define rural America. A more thorough understanding and appreciation of these areas could...
Brainteasers
The McKinsey Crossword: Alliterative People | No. 241
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Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you’re looking for a quick win.
Data Points
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