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Seizing Finland’s growth opportunity
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Our research finds that the growth rate of the country’s largest companies has trailed global peers for the past decade. The good news is this trajectory can be reversed.
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2026 M&A trends: Navigating a rapidly rebounding market
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After dealmaking slowed momentarily in early 2025, global M&A activity quickly assumed a grand scale—delivering big gains for the year—with momentum continuing.
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Sovereign AI: Building ecosystems for strategic resilience and impact
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Sovereign AI is achievable only through an ecosystem effort that connects energy, compute, data, models, platforms, and applications across multiple actors.
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Women in tech and AI in Europe: Can the region close its gender gap?
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The rise of AI could be the turning point that finally unlocks women’s full participation in the tech sector if addressed early—or reduces their share even further.
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Accelerating Europe’s AI adoption: The role of sovereign AI
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By playing to its strengths, the continent could create an AI ecosystem that accelerates adoption, improves global competitiveness, and reignites economic growth and prosperity.
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Out of balance: What’s next for growth, wealth, and debt?
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Amid rising economic uncertainty, this research takes a long-term view on wealth and growth rooted in government, corporate, and household balance sheets.
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Global Energy Perspective 2025
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Geopolitical uncertainty, shifting policies, and increasing demand for power are reshaping the energy landscape. In this year’s report, we present our updated view on what’s to come in the energy system.
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Global Materials Perspective 2025
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Materials profitability and cash positions were strong in 2024. Looking ahead, success likely requires capturing growth while improving productivity and delivering sustainable solutions.
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McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2025
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Which frontier technologies matter most for companies in 2025? Our annual tech trends report highlights the latest technology breakthroughs, talent trends, use cases, and their potential impact on companies across sectors.
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Global Banking Annual Review 2025: Why precision, not heft, defines the future of banking
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Banks need to prepare for the next growth curve. Global Banking Annual Review 2025 shows how a targeted approach can help them thrive.
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Top M&A trends in 2024: Blueprint for success in the next wave of deals
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Will 2024 launch a bright new era for M&A? Anticipating what could be an inflection point, many dealmakers are preparing for a surge—and new market requirements—in the year ahead.
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Everything you wanted to know about carbon removals but were afraid to ask
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Decarbonization has emerged as a critical tool in the fight against climate change, but it also shows promise as a means of economic acceleration across the globe. Learn how.
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What’s driving the Nordic countries’ software export surge?
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Nordic countries represent just 3 percent of global software demand, yet they have become home to Europe’s fastest-growing software funding hub.
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Accelerating Europe: Competitiveness for a new era
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Turbulent times have highlighted new fragilities in Europe’s economies. Addressing them could be the catalyst for a new wave of competitiveness and growth.
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The human side of generative AI: Creating a path to productivity
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The number of employees who use generative AI is expected to soar, freeing many to focus on higher-level cognitive work. Can organizations use this moment to make jobs more people centric?
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The State of Fashion 2024: Finding pockets of growth as uncertainty reigns
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Fashion companies will face economic headwinds, technology shifts, and an evolving competitive landscape in 2024. However, shifting consumer priorities will continue to offer opportunities.
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Global Energy Perspective 2023
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In an evolving energy landscape, our Global Energy Perspective 2023 provides insights into long-term trends that will shape the energy transition.
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The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier
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Generative AI is poised to unleash the next wave of productivity. We take a first look at where business value could accrue and the potential impacts on the workforce.
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Sustainable style: How fashion can afford and accelerate decarbonization
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Translating fashion’s decarbonization commitments into action has proved difficult. A new McKinsey analysis outlines what the industry can do to reach its targets.
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Organizational health is (still) the key to long-term performance
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McKinsey’s latest findings on organizational health demonstrate that it remains the best predictor of value creation and a sustainable source of competitive advantage in today’s global marketplace.
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Beyond the hype: New opportunities for gen AI in energy and materials
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Generative AI can create additional value from other forms of AI and analytics—and the energy and materials sector is uniquely well-positioned to benefit from these advancements.
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McKinsey Quarterly: Radical Reboot
The workforce of the future is hybrid, with humans working alongside virtual and physical agents. This issue looks at what could be the largest org-model shift since the industrial and digital revolutions.
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