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Video
Winning: What the best athletes, teams, and coaches do differently
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Eight disciplines for defining success, building the system to achieve it, and finding an edge when the margin between good and great is razor-thin.
Interview
Brilliant Moves: Coffee with Lloyds Banking Group CEO Charlie Nunn
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Drawing on two decades of collaboration, Lloyds Banking Group’s Charlie Nunn and McKinsey’s Tunde Olanrewaju explore how trust, curiosity, and optimism help leaders reimagine institutions in the age of AI.
Discussion Paper - MGI Research
The AI economy: Interconnected forces, feedback loops, and speeds of change
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AI is shaped by forces far beyond the technology itself, and its effects reach just as widely. Mapping how the pieces interact helps us see what could influence its course and where hurdles and opportunities may emerge.
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
Caution crops into farmers’ spending
Farm economics have been squeezed across the agricultural value chain. Yields have remained relatively strong, driving commodity...
Themes
The human skills at a premium in the age of AI
Labor Day has long recognized the contributions of workers to the economy. With AI agents increasingly part of the workforce,...
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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.
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September 22, 2026, 11:30 a.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CET
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 future of US manufacturing is hiding in plain sight
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In the United States, the glory days of manufacturing could once again be possible. Industrial tech companies, get ready for your close-up.
Podcast - The McKinsey Podcast
Is progress behind us, or is ‘plenty’ still possible?
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A new podcast series based on the McKinsey Global Institute’s most recent book explains why another century of broad-based human progress is within reach.
Interview
GS Caltex’s Saehong Hur: Leading from the top; moving forward—together
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For Saehong Hur, continued communication and an integrated mindset are vital for adapting to changing market needs and maximizing value.
Podcast
Shapers and founders: The traits behind outsized value creation in Asia
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A set of common traits underlies Asian founders’ success: Passion for their work, ongoing curiosity, boundless energy, and a strong belief in their people.
McKinsey on Books
Author Talks: Why leadership intelligence matters in the AI age
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Lessons from cognitive science can help leaders become wiser, more inspiring, and more resilient. McKinsey Senior Adviser Caroline...
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 key to AI value is hiding in plain sight: Your operating model
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New research shows that organizations undergoing AI transformation succeed not by adopting one “best” operating model,...
McKinsey Institutes
Discussion Paper - MGI Research
The AI economy: Interconnected forces, feedback loops, and speeds of change
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AI is shaped by forces far beyond the technology itself, and its effects reach just as widely. Mapping how the pieces interact...
Report - McKinsey Health Institute
Closing the women’s health gap: The United Kingdom’s £36 billion opportunity
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Closing the women’s health gap in the United Kingdom could result in ten more healthy days of life per year for every woman—and...
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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