Driving holistic impact

Want to see impact across your organization? This special collection offers insights on five aspects that are essential to create a lasting, sustainable difference: financial and operational elements, capabilities, health and the workforce, customer focus, and social and environmental impact.

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What matters most? Five priorities for CEOs in the next normal

– How leaders can adapt to a very different future.

Financial & Operational

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Speed and resilience: Five priorities for the next five months

– As businesses recover from COVID-19-related disruption and reimagine themselves for the next normal, they need to ask—and answer—five questions.
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Four regions, four stories of recovery and resilience

– An assessment of shareholder returns in the world’s four largest capital markets reveals how the global stock market fared in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Strategic resilience during the COVID-19 crisis

– Organizations that rapidly reinvented themselves in response to the pandemic can provide lessons on resilience.
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The need for resiliency

– Here’s how leading companies can build a business that’s ready for tomorrow.
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Meeting the future: Dynamic risk management for uncertain times

– The world is changing in fundamental ways, leading to dramatic shifts in the landscape of risks faced by businesses.
Report - McKinsey Global Institute

Risk, resilience, and rebalancing in global value chains

– Companies need an understanding of their exposure, vulnerabilities, and potential losses to inform resilience strategies.

Capabilities

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The future of capability building

– The next ten years will bring fundamental changes to our working world, and to adapt, employees in almost every role and industry will need to acquire new skills. The COVID-19 crisis has only accelerated these shifts. In this edition of The Next Normal, we explore how capability building will—and should—change in the years ahead.
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Building workforce skills at scale to thrive during—and after—the COVID-19 crisis

– A new survey shows that skill building is becoming common practice, social and emotional skills are in demand, and there’s a recipe for successful skill transformations.
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Intentional learning in practice: A 3x3x3 approach

– Learning can be honed through practice. Here’s an effective strategy to continually learn, grow, and achieve development goals.
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Building a learning culture that drives business forward

– Too often, training programs fail. Here’s how businesses can create a learning culture and invest in the capabilities that will help individuals and organizations thrive.
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The capability-building imperative: Make purposeful investments in people

– To thrive in a fast-changing world, leaders must treat capability building as a strategic weapon, says McKinsey’s managing partner for North America.
Interactive - McKinsey Quarterly

Five Fifty: The skillful corporation

– With skill shortages looming, companies need multiple tactics to close the capability gap. Here are three keys to action.

Health & Workforce

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Looking beyond the pandemic: Could the world economy gain more than it lost to COVID-19?

– Safeguarding lives and livelihoods in the next phase could usher in an age of health and prosperity.
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Help your employees find purpose—or watch them leave

– Employees expect their jobs to bring a significant sense of purpose to their lives. Employers need to help meet this need, or... be prepared to lose talent to companies that will.
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Organizing for the future: Nine keys to becoming a future-ready company

– To better organize for a postpandemic future, leaders should embrace nine imperatives that collectively explain who... we are as an organization, how we operate, and how we grow.
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Five ways to design a better mental-health future for a stressed-out workforce

– Almost 41 percent of Americans struggle with mental-health issues stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, but many companies remain... ill equipped to address the problem.
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Diversity wins: How inclusion matters

– The business case for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) is stronger than ever. Taking a closer look at diversity... winners reveals what can drive real progress.
Podcast - McKinsey Quarterly

What makes an organization ‘healthy’?

– Research shows that companies can improve short- and long-term performance by focusing on a small number of carefully selected... management practices.

Customers

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By the numbers: What drives sales-growth outperformance

– New data reveals that outperformers are ahead of the pack where it matters in insights, agility, talent, and tech.
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Prediction: The future of CX

– Designing great customer experiences is getting easier with the rise of predictive analytics.
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Five Fifty: Making loyalty pay

– Fast-surfing consumers are trying out new brands, stores, products, and websites. Can loyalty programs keep pace?
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Simple, predictive, proactive, responsive: The future of customer operations

– For happier customers and lower costs, companies need a better way to steer their digital-service transformations.
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The three building blocks of successful customer-experience transformations

– Meeting new consumer needs and expectations is critical to post-COVID-19 business success. Here’s a proven formula for upgrading... customer experience.
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Global surveys of consumer sentiment

Explore a collection of insights that dive deeper on consumer sentiment and behavior around the world, with views from the Americas,... Asia-Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

Social & Environmental Impact

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Unequal America: Ten insights on the state of economic opportunity

– The inaugural McKinsey American Opportunity Survey spotlights Americans’ views on economic opportunity, the obstacles they... face, and the path ahead to create a more inclusive economy.
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The case for inclusive growth

– US leaders across sectors have an opportunity to improve economic performance—and bolster individual and community well-being—through... investments that embed equity into the development process.
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How companies capture the value of sustainability: Survey findings

– What makes the difference between a sustainability program that produces business value and one that doesn’t? A new survey... identifies practices that distinguish value-creating companies from others.
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From principle to practice: Making stakeholder capitalism work

– Just as with other business priorities, stakeholder capitalism is a matter of execution. Here are five steps to get it right.
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Race in the workplace: The Black experience in the US private sector

– Advancing racial equity in the workplace is a system-level challenge—ranging from the structural inequities of geography to underrepresentation... in industries and jobs that could create additional opportunity to the behaviors of the workplace itself.
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Global Energy Perspective 2021

– The Global Energy Perspective describes our view on how the energy transition can unfold, through four scenarios.

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2020 Social Responsibility Report

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