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Report
The State of Organizations 2026: Three tectonic forces that are reshaping organizations
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The State of Organizations 2026 report highlights sharper focus on performance at a time of tech innovation, economic disruption, and changing workforce structures.
Interactive - McKinsey Health Institute
The health of nations: The return to better health, by country
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Explore how improving population health could deliver meaningful gains in healthy life and economic performance across countries.
Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Strategy’s biggest blind spot: Erosion of competitive advantage
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Misperceptions about the reach and durability of competitive advantage are hurting many companies’ profits. Five rules can help organizations maximize their edge over peers.
Explainers
How are companies valued?
Three McKinsey experts explain what really drives valuation—and where leaders often get it wrong.
Lives & Legacies
A turnaround CEO, a bond market virtuoso, and a champion of human visibility
Our latest obituaries also include a plastics magnate, a probiotic pioneer, and an award-winning architect whose work defied...
Week in Charts
The future AI workload
AI has become the main growth engine for US data centers, reshaping data center economics, power planning, and leasing decisions....
Themes
Bold moves for Europe’s future
What will it take for Europe to strengthen its economic competitiveness amid geopolitical uncertainty, demographic shifts, and...
Our Latest Survey Research
Survey
How top economic performers lean into their competitive advantage to guide their strategy
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Top economic performers understand their competitive advantage at more granular levels than their peers and use it to derisk and help accelerate growth.
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The Next Chapter of American Competitiveness: A CEO and Board agenda
How should capital be deployed in AI and other strategic technologies? Are supply chains, talent models, and balance sheets built for a more uncertain world? And what role will business need to play in strengthening energy, infrastructure, and workforce readiness? Join McKinsey senior partners Eric Kutcher and Olivia White for a discussion on how the U.S. can sustain its competitive edge and the practical choices leaders can make to secure long-term growth.
Featured Newsletter
The Weekend Read
Curated picks for your downtime
The CEO Shortlist
Our best new ideas for the C-suite
Leading Off
Essentials for leaders and those they lead
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McKinsey Insights app: Leadership and business insights
Discover McKinsey's latest business insights on the biggest opportunities and most challenging issues facing executives today.
Interviews
Podcast - The McKinsey Podcast
What does it take to achieve and sustain growth?
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Too many growth strategies stall because leaders don’t treat them with the same rigor they apply to other long-term investments. Here’s how to avoid that trap.
Podcast - McKinsey Quarterly
‘Having a “human” bank is very important’: A conversation with Citi CEO Jane Fraser
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Citi moves $2,000 trillion a year for 6,000 multinationals. No wonder its CEO has a provocative global perspective.
Interview - McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility
The promise of employee ownership
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Philip Reeves, the founding partner of Apis & Heritage Capital Partners, explains how employee ownership can strengthen businesses, create wealth, and foster more equitable ownership transfers.
Interview - McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility
One couple’s journey with entrepreneurship through acquisition
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The duo behind Monsam Portable Sinks shares why buying an existing company beat starting from scratch—and what they’ve learned along the way.
Podcast
Kevin Mahoney on the responsibility of academic medical centers
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Kevin Mahoney, CEO of University of Pennsylvania Health System, discusses academic medical centers’ vital role in the community and how they can further improve care and physician experiences.
Case Study
Modernizing a 100-year-old business model with AI
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Bridget McCormack, president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association, explains her organization’s revolutionary adoption of a native-AI approach.
McKinsey on Books
Author Talks: Is it time for a four-day workweek?
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What if fewer workdays led to higher productivity? Journalist Jared Lindzon explains the personal, organizational, and economic...
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...
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...
McKinsey Institutes
Interactive - McKinsey Health Institute
The health of nations: The return to better health, by country
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Explore how improving population health could deliver meaningful gains in healthy life and economic performance across countries....
Interview - McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility
One couple’s journey with entrepreneurship through acquisition
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The duo behind Monsam Portable Sinks shares why buying an existing company beat starting from scratch—and what they’ve...
Interview - MGI Research
Pulling off another century of human progress
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Five of the authors of the McKinsey Global Institute’s new book talk about writing a new narrative of progress.
Brainteasers
The McKinsey Crossword: Quarterly report | No. 265
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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.
Data Points
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How well do you know the numbers behind the changes in business, society, and the world? Take the McKinsey monthly quiz to find out.