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Quantum’s bold promise: What business leaders need to know
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Quantum computing could optimize portfolios, simulate molecules, and model supply chains. That’s just a start. In the next decade, as the technology matures, early movers could unlock real value.
Report - MGI Research
Agents, robots, and us: How AI reshapes work and skills in Europe
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Most skills will still be needed—but how people use them will change as they work alongside intelligent machines.
Blog Post
Tanguy Catlin on finding strategic focus in the AI era
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The McKinsey senior partner and new MGI director shares his perspective on the key questions CEOs are facing and why going deep drives value.
Explainers
What is sovereign AI?
Three McKinsey experts explain what sovereign AI really means—and why control over the AI stack is becoming a strategic priority...
Lives & Legacies
A maestro of management, a pension fund strategist, and a true game changer
Our latest obituaries also include a designer who redefined red-carpet glamour, a versatile block trader, and a surgeon whose...
Week in Charts
Aviation’s talent turbulence
The aviation industry is in dire need of maintenance technicians. Without intervention, the technician deficit could reach 60,000...
Themes
Support for working moms is closer than many realize
Paid parental leave is available for many parents in the US—yet it often goes unused.
A report from McKinsey and Moms First...
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Podcast
Talking with Nigel Morris, cofounder of QED Investors
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The venture capital firm, which supports early-stage and growth fintechs, gives its founders a front-row seat to observe the industry’s accelerating evolution.
Interview
The case for data centers in space
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Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston on the potential role orbital data centers could play in meeting growing AI compute demand—and the technical and economic uncertainties that remain.
Interview
Global Lighthouse voices: A talk with CITIC Dicastal’s Badr Lahmoudi
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For CITIC Dicastal’s president, the honor of becoming Africa’s first Lighthouse site means sharing best practices and adding to the growth of the Moroccan economy.
Podcast - The McKinsey Podcast
Rewiring for AI: From ambition to advantage
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Companies chase AI everywhere but often fail to capture value—because they’re missing the muscle to scale what works.
Podcast
Rewiring Europe: Turning pressure into performance
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Europe is at a productivity inflection point, and closing the gap will require leaders to move beyond incremental fixes and rewire operations end to end with AI, speed, and scale.
Podcast - Inside the Strategy Room
AI, strategy, and the future of work: Oxford economist Jean-Paul Carvalho
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Professor Jean-Paul Carvalho explores how AI is reshaping cognitive work, organizations, and where business leaders can capture value at scale.
McKinsey on Books
Author Talks: Feeling stuck? Turn uncertainty into purpose
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Being stuck isn’t failure—it’s a signal to act. NobleReach Foundation CEO Arun Gupta explains how action—not clarity—creates...
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...
Quantum’s bold promise: What business leaders need to know
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Quantum computing could optimize portfolios, simulate molecules, and model supply chains. That’s just a start. In the next decade,...
McKinsey Institutes
Report - McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility
The Great Ownership Transfer: A new era of business stewardship
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As millions of baby boomers retire, the United States is on the brink of an unprecedented wave of small-business ownership transitions—posing...
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....
Report - MGI Research
Agents, robots, and us: How AI reshapes work and skills in Europe
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Most skills will still be needed—but how people use them will change as they work alongside intelligent machines.
Brainteasers
The McKinsey Crossword: Made with AI | No. 266
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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.
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