Our Davos insights
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Why Davos matters more than ever
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Global challenges call for global leadership.
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2023, a testing year: Will the macro-scenario range widen or narrow?
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Will the world move to solve its structural problems and make superior short-term choices? Yes or no: that’s the first question on the test.
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lighthouses 2023
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Leaders need clarity on what works to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our 2023 report shows success factors that contributed to significant, quantifiable, scalable, and sustainable DEI impact.
Discussion Paper - MGI Research
The China imperative for multinational companies
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Multinational companies operating in China must reconfigure for opportunity and risk.
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What is Davos?
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Davos, Switzerland, is where the World Economic Forum holds its annual meeting. Delegates from many sectors converge for several days of talks and meetings to address urgent global issues.
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Young Global Leaders on Davos 2023
The world was a dynamic place in 2022, with the Ukraine war, inflation, climate change, supply chain challenges, and COVID-19 dominating our attention. As we prepare for a new year and the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in January, what themes in business, economics, and policy can we expect to surface at Davos 2023?
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A defining moment: How Europe’s CEOs can build resilience to grow in today’s economic maelstrom
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Can leaders lift their companies to the next frontier of resilience—not only to survive but also to thrive?
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Something’s coming: How US companies can build resilience, survive a downturn, and thrive in the next cycle
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The US economy continues to throw off mixed signals. But one thing is becoming clear: executives should prepare for an extended period of higher interest rates.
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Resilience for sustainable, inclusive growth
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Resilience should be seen as the ability to deal with adversity, withstand shocks, and continuously adapt and accelerate as disruptions and crises arise over time.
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The energy transition: A region-by-region agenda for near-term action
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What practical actions could countries take now to ensure that the energy transition both accelerates and proceeds in an orderly...
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Nature in the balance: What companies can do to restore natural capital
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Specific corporate actions, many with a positive return on investment, could help reverse the trend of the depletion of natural...
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A devilish duality: How CEOs can square resilience with net-zero promises
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Amid turbulence on the path to net zero, leaders will have to be much nimbler to balance resilience with an energy future that...
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The complication of concentration in global trade
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Concentration in the origins of traded products is widespread, prompting questions about whether to diversify or decouple.
Discussion Paper - MGI Research
Global flows: The ties that bind in an interconnected world
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Economic and political turbulence have prompted speculation that the world is already deglobalizing. But the evidence suggests...
Discussion Paper - MGI Research
On the cusp of a new era?
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Current economic and political turbulence could presage the start of a new era that is structurally very different with a new...
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lighthouses 2023
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Leaders need clarity on what works to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our 2023 report shows success factors that contributed...
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Women in the Workplace 2022
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Women leaders are switching jobs at the highest rates we’ve ever seen, and ambitious young women are prepared to do the...
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The state of diversity in global private markets: 2022
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New research captures regional differences in the state of diversity in private equity and discusses the role of institutional...
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Your guide to navigating the space economy
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It’s been 50 years since the Apollo 17 crew returned to Earth following a historic lunar landing.
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The Next Normal – The future of space: It’s getting crowded out there
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Could you soon be taking trips to outer space? Some experts think so. Rocket launches have become much less expensive, so thousands...
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A different space race: Raising capital and accelerating growth
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As innovation accelerates within the space sector, companies may benefit by taking a disruptor’s mindset to accessing and...
World Economic Forum – McKinsey Collaborations
The Global Lighthouse Network
Seeks to shape the future of advanced manufacturing and production through “lighthouse” factories.
The Future of Sustainable Mobility
Looks to bridge the public trust gap and accelerate the transition to cleaner, safer, more inclusive mobility systems.
Critical Building Blocks for a Sustainable Concrete Market
Cement is essential for construction but accounts for approximately 7% of global CO₂ production. The World Economic Forum–McKinsey knowledge collaboration on the decarbonization of cement looks to lower emissions through circularity solutions and reducing the need for new virgin components.
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Seizing the momentum to build resilience for a future of sustainable inclusive growth
To secure a sustainable, inclusive future in a world of continuous, overlapping disruptions, leaders are recognizing the critical need to invest in long-term resilience.
Seizing resilience momentum: our existential opportunity
Global disruption is ramping up, everywhere from geopolitics to food and energy. Addressing these disruptions cannot be done in a piecemeal manner—we must confront them systemically. Sustained collective action by the public and private sectors is the only path forward; a resilient growth strategy is not only a necessity, but it also represents an opportunity.
Investing in women and diverse entrepreneurs to boost the post-pandemic recovery
Women and diverse individuals often run up against systemic challenges and resource scarcity when pursuing entrepreneurship and small business ownership. The greater presence of women and diverse fund founders should mitigate some of the demographic and cultural biases in the distribution of financing.
The incumbent business as a startup machine
For the past three decades, the business world has intently watched the growth and innovation fueled by startups – and rightly so. Six of the top 10 tech companies today didn’t exist back then. But in fixating so much on this one segment of value creation, we may be collectively overlooking an even bigger opportunity: the incumbent business as a startup machine.
Nature and net zero
This report explores natural climate solutions, which offer an opportunity to address both climate and nature crises and generate significant additional environmental, social and economic benefits.
The Next Wave: Green Corridors
Green corridors are specific trade routes between major port hubs where zero-emission solutions are supported. A new report shows that accelerated decarbonization for the shipping industry is feasible, and could provide stakeholders with the confidence to invest, coordinate, and deliver solutions at scale by 2030.
Road Freight Zero: Pathways to faster adoption of zero-emission trucks
This report identifies three groups of solutions can act as accelerators for faster adoption: new policy frameworks, innovative financing and service models, and coordinated roll-out of trucks and infrastructure.
Critical insights on the path to a net-zero aviation sector
Dramatically reducing CO2 emissions by 2050 in the aviation industry will not be easy, but advanced modeling shows that it is possible—with the right ambition and investment.
Forging ahead: A materials roadmap for the zero-carbon car
The systems-wide change needed to create circularity in the automotive sector and sometimes seem costly and prohibitive. However, as this report demonstrates, significant abatement is possible for the auto industry with very little additional added vehicle material cost.
Clean skies for tomorrow: Sustainable aviation fuels as a pathway to net-zero aviation
A transition to carbon-neutral flying is possible and sustainable aviation fuels are the most promising decarbonization pathway in the near term.
Ramping up operations and business activity post-COVID-19
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Four strategic actions can help companies to effectively prepare and ensure a successful ramp-up of production and business activity for a post-COVID-19 world.
Resuming operations and business activity post-COVID-19
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Perspectives on how companies can return to work and resume operations and business activity as early as possible, while ensuring employees’ safety and preventing new infections.
Global Lighthouse Network: Insights from the forefront of
the fourth industrial revolution
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This paper looks closer at 14 “Lighthouse” manufacturers that show how end-to-end innovation in the value chain can improve productivity, operating cost, and speed to market.
Industry’s fast-mover advantage: Enterprise value from digital factories
Manufacturing’s leaders in applying Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) digital technologies are building on their head start—generating even more value across the entire enterprise.
The future of the last-mile ecosystem
What’s ahead for urban deliveries? This new report analyzes interventions—such as the use of electric vehicles and parcel lockers—that could lower emissions and congestion considerably.
3 ways we can help women join the age of automation
The public, private, and third sectors need to work together to support women to make the transitions they need to thrive in the automation age, write Anu Madgavkar, Vivian Hunt, and Lareina Yee in World Economic Forum.
How AI can improve disaster resilience and relief
Natural disasters are increasing in frequency and ferocity. Here's how AI can come to the rescue.
How to incentivize food systems to meet the realities of the 21st century
Today’s food systems don’t address the needs of people or the planet. New research from the World Economic Forum and McKinsey lays out a road map to create the needed incentives.
DAVOS ARCHIVES
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In Davos, shining a light on the economic future of America: Manufacturing.
Manufacturing was once thought to be a declining industry in the US—but according to our North America managing partner, the US industrial technology sector is booming.
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World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders Alumni
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Bengi Korkmaz
Senior Partner, Mumbai
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Leader, Global Publishing, New York
Raju Narisetti
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The Davos Agenda: What we shared and heard
The virtual event gathered 1500 global leaders for hundreds of discussions around the theme “A crucial year to rebuild trust.”
Davos 2020: What mattered
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McKinsey’s global managing partner Kevin Sneader shares his notes from this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.
Davos 2019: Four big themes
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Which topics dominated at Davos this year? What was the general outlook? Kevin Sneader, our global managing partner, offers a first-hand perspective.