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Collective action, collective success: A CEO’s role in transformations
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Successful transformations require everyone in the organization to move in the same direction. That can only happen when CEOs directly address collective-action problems.
Report - MGI Research
Catalyzing competitiveness: Where investment happens and why
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Competitiveness has moved to the top of the global agenda, and investment is its indicator and its outcome. In the context of dramatically diverging investment patterns globally, companies and regions can pull seven levers to level up.
Case Study
How KPN is building an agentic AI engine for customer care
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By transforming its contact center with agentic AI, the leading Dutch telecom company is strengthening quality, improving efficiency, and building AI capabilities for long-term competitiveness.
Explainers
AI-powered software development: How technology is rewriting the rules
From individual productivity hacks to full workflow and role reinvention—three McKinsey experts explain how AI is changing the...
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
America’s evolving economic edge
As the United States marks its 250th birthday, we explore the foundations of its economic competitiveness—and the opportunities...
Themes
Improving outcomes for LGBTQ+ youth
In New York City, the Ali Forney Center (AFC) is a lifeline for LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness. The need continues to...
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How top economic performers lean into their competitive advantage to guide their strategy
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Suphachai Chearavanont: Bold moves in innovation-driven transformation
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In striving for business growth while creating value for society, Suphachai Chearavanont has based his leadership strategy on looking beyond short-term gains to sustainable social impact and scale.
Podcast
Talking with Daniel Marovitz, SVP of Fintech at Booking.com
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Booking.com’s senior vice president of fintech describes how the travel-booking company has become the global platform of choice by managing complexity and easing customers’ pain points.
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In an AI-driven world, the fastest learner will win: An interview with McKinsey’s Sven Smit
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As he steps down as chair of McKinsey Global Institute, Sven considers the current AI moment, where the next big ideas are coming from, and how institutions will harness knowledge in the future.
Interview
The age of thinking machines: Perspectives on the future of robotics
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The next frontier of AI is physical. Embodied intelligence, in the form of robots, could change how we live and work by 2040.
Interview
How TITAN Group’s CEO is transforming a century-old company
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As the first outside leader of the family-founded business, Marcel Cobuz has made some tough decisions about what to keep and what to change. His formula seems to be working.
Interview
Resolve AI CEO Spiros Xanthos: AI’s impact on software production systems
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Automating software’s deployment, production, and monitoring systems has been challenging. Resolve AI’s CEO explains how AI could improve reliability, pace, and workload.
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...
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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...
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Report - MGI Research
Catalyzing competitiveness: Where investment happens and why
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Competitiveness has moved to the top of the global agenda, and investment is its indicator and its outcome. In the context of...
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
From access to assets: How early-life wealth building can shape economic mobility
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Investing in children’s financial futures can narrow disparities and expand opportunity. Different scenarios for the new...
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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