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Tanner Snider

I am a senior business analyst in Chicago, currently serving as deputy chief of staff to our global managing partner, Kevin Sneader. As a private pilot who grew up on a small farm in Indiana, I’m excited about the future of aviation and agriculture and how each industry will become more environmentally sustainable.

Why I chose these pieces

Environmental sustainability and diversity and inclusion are the two themes of the pieces I’ve chosen because they are key enablers to a better, stronger, and safer future for all. The global COVID-19 pandemic has shown that businesses, governments, and society can and must work together to solve the most pressing issues of our time, and these articles share actionable ways in which this can be done.

My picks

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Women in the Workplace 2022
– Women leaders are switching jobs at the highest rates we’ve ever seen, and ambitious young women are prepared to do the same. To make meaningful and sustainable progress toward gender equality, companies need to go beyond table stakes. That’s according to the latest Women in the Workplace report from McKinsey, in partnership with LeanIn.Org.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly

LGBTQ+ voices: Learning from lived experiences
– New research reveals the challenges that LGBTQ+ employees face, and six ways to help them bring their authentic selves to work.
Report - McKinsey Global Institute

Climate risk and response: Physical hazards and socioeconomic impacts
– How could Earth’s changing climate impact socioeconomic systems across the world in the next three decades? A yearlong, cross-disciplinary research effort at McKinsey & Company provides some answers.
Interactive - McKinsey Quarterly

The 1.5-degree challenge
– Holding warming to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels could limit the most dangerous and irreversible effects of climate change.
Interactive - McKinsey Quarterly

Five Fifty: High stakes for stakeholder capitalism
– As environmental, social, and governance issues become more urgent, companies are looking to create both profits and progress.
Article

How a post-pandemic stimulus can both create jobs and help the climate
– The $10 trillion in stimulus measures that policy makers have allocated could be decisive for the world’s low-carbon transition. Here’s how organizations can bring economic and environmental priorities together.

Ana Terán

Business Analyst, Panama
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Angelos Geranmayeh

Business Analyst, Johannesburg
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Chris McCorkle

Business Analyst, Washington, DC
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Malika Oak

Business Analyst, New Jersey
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Haneul Ryoo

Business Analyst, Washington, DC
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You’ve met a few of our Gen Z colleagues. If you’d like to learn more about how this new class thinks and acts, see a few McKinsey insights that take on ways companies can engage with this important consumer segment: “‘True Gen’: Generation Z and its implications for companies,” “Meet Generation Z: Shaping the future of shopping,” “What makes Asia–Pacific’s Generation Z different?,” and “The young and the restless: Generation Z in America.”

Mike Borruso, Torea Frey, Mona Hamouly, LaShon Malone, Philip Mathew, and Nathan Wilson, of McKinsey Global Publishing, helped bring this project to life.

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