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What to read next: McKinsey’s 2025 annual book recommendations
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Each year, we invite a diverse group of leaders to share the books that have resonated with them—or ones they can’t wait to read. This year’s list includes over 90 titles, from timely insights to timeless fiction.
Podcast - The McKinsey Podcast
Tariffs and trade: Preparing for the unpredictable
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The global trade system is rife with uncertainty—but businesses can’t afford to remain frozen. Here’s how leaders can take action with tariff and trade policies in flux.
Article
Banking on gen AI in the credit business: The route to value creation
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Banks have taken steps to accelerate the adoption of gen AI in the credit business, but most remain on a long-term journey, according to a recent survey.
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
Targeted ads take off
Over the past three decades, the advertising industry has continuously transformed—from mass media like print and TV, which had...
Themes
What are McKinsey leaders reading?
Each year, we invite a diverse group of leaders to share the books that have resonated with them—or ones they can’t wait to read....
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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Mind the Gap
Biweekly curated reads on Gen Z in the workplace
McKinsey Classics
Timeless insights—and why they’re as relevant as ever
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Curated picks for your downtime
McKinsey Insights app: Leadership and business insights
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Interviews
Podcast
John Stankey talks about leaning into the long term at AT&T
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The CEO and chairman of AT&T unpacks his decision around the company’s repositioning and shares his big-bet plans for its future.
Podcast - The McKinsey Podcast
Tariffs and trade: Preparing for the unpredictable
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The global trade system is rife with uncertainty—but businesses can’t afford to remain frozen. Here’s how leaders can take action with tariff and trade policies in flux.
Interview
Deploying AI at speed and scale: Talking with ING’s Marnix van Stiphout
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How a focus on scope, safety, and speed helped the Dutch multinational bank deploy its gen AI transformation quickly and effectively.
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McKinsey on Books
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...
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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: Arenas of Tomorrow | No. 240
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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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