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Your budget is killing your strategy—here are four ways to fix it
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Traditional budgeting can undermine performance. Today, leading CFOs use budgets to turn strategy into action.
Report
When AI meets desire: Innovating human-centered luxury experiences in the agentic age
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With luxury consumers rapidly embracing AI, the strategic question for merchants is no longer whether agents will mediate the journey, but who controls how brands are perceived.
Article
Airline premium cabins: Profitability at the front of the plane
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Airlines can modernize their approach to business- and first-class revenue. Premium cabins call for differentiated strategies.
Explainers
Why a US governor’s first few months shape the full term
Three McKinsey experts explain why advance planning, a willingness to learn, and a strong team often determine whether an administration...
Lives & Legacies
A hidden figure behind GPS, a cycling champion, and a quiet trucking giant
Our latest obituaries also include a Hollywood animator, a cable industry innovator, and a prize-winning doctor who built a tuberculosis...
Week in Charts
Space race redux
Hard tech, which comprises robotics, shared autonomous vehicles, future air mobility, space, and modular construction, is one...
Themes
Optimism in action
In periods of geopolitical and economic uncertainty, optimism is a deliberate leadership choice. That idea has shaped McKinsey’s...
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Move first or fall behind: How AI is rewriting the rules of banking
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AI is poised to reshape banking not just by cutting costs, but by redistributing profits, redefining customer relationships, and accelerating competition. How should banks respond?
Interview
Building the AI advantage: How ADEO is preparing for retail’s next wave
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The global home-improvement retailer’s chief digital and information officer on unlocking the potential of AI—and keeping people’s feet on the ground.
Interview
The board’s role in managing emerging AI risks
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Leading cybersecurity executives and board directors discuss the challenges and opportunities of AI.
Podcast
Leslie Davis on serving communities as both payer and provider
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Leslie Davis, president and CEO of UPMC, discusses the organization’s “payvider” model and how its emphasis on innovation has helped UPMC deliver better, more affordable care.
McKinsey on Books
Author Talks: Testing AI’s limits in a one-year experiment
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What happens when AI runs your life for a year? NBC News Chief Technology Analyst Joanna Stern reveals surprising gains—and...
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...
Five steps to turning geopolitical volatility into an advantage
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As geopolitics redraws trade flows and strategic priorities, CEOs who anticipate the shifts—and reallocate capital accordingly—can...
McKinsey Institutes
Report
Ramping up manufacturing in America?
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Probing how much manufacturing ramp-up would be needed to address US trade dependencies.
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.
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...
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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