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Turning data into decisions: Lessons from professional cycling
Team Visma | Lease a Bike, McKinsey, and QuantumBlack are using live race intelligence, predictive models, and AI agents to reshape how coaches and strategists plan, analyze scenarios, and respond in real time.
Article
Three horizons of quantum: A business road map to the future computing economy
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In the next decade, quantum technology could create trillions in value and break encryption, delivering opportunity but also risk. Leading companies are acting now to secure a competitive advantage.
Report - McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility
The hidden opportunity in the next $2 trillion of US–Latin America trade
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Our latest research finds that distinctive capabilities unique to Latino business owners and consumers in the United States could create significant growth in one of the world’s biggest economic corridors.
Explainers
AI in five industries: What’s now, and what’s next
The headlines are everywhere. The nuance is more elusive. In these video Explainers, McKinsey partners go sector by...
Lives & Legacies
An architect of modern media, a literary champion, and a retail revolutionary
Our latest obituaries also include the first American to scale Mount Everest, a frugal Fed chair, and a fashion cofounder tailor-made...
Chart of the Week
AI and the workforce reinvention
AI and automation are reshaping the US workforce, and they could propel changes in job responsibilities even where employment...
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World Food Day: Navigating pressure from farm to shelf
Across the food system, people are making more careful choices about how and where to spend.
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Economic conditions outlook, September 2026
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Executives’ economic pessimism has eased since June, but they remain cautious. Negative views continue to be more common than positive ones, and expectations for the next six months are mixed.
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AI, geopolitical upheaval, and rapid shifts in customer behavior have leaders questioning what still holds true. Executives have never had more data, frameworks, and strategic ideas at their disposal, yet McKinsey research suggests the quality of corporate strategies has been falling.
Join McKinsey experts Andy West and Whitney Zimmerman for a discussion on what it takes to create and sustain value in an increasingly turbulent environment. Drawing on findings from McKinsey’s latest research and their forthcoming book, Strategy and Value: The Four Foundations That Drive Long-Term Performance, they’ll explore four timeless foundations of strategy and how leaders can apply them to today’s hardest decisions.
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Securing software in the age of AI: Red Hat CTO Chris Wright
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Open-source veteran Chris Wright explains why AI-driven vulnerability discovery is forcing a reckoning for software security, and how the industry can emerge stronger as a result.
Podcast - McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility
Place, purpose, and the path to economic mobility
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Where you live shapes far more than you’d think. New research points to how community, place, and connection relate to getting ahead.
Podcast
Voices on Planning: The AI-powered future of supply chain
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The shift from software as a service to AI-enabled planning could move decision-making from fixed cycles to real time, but success will require the right governance, expertise, and operating model.
Interview
Meesho: Making e-commerce everyone’s business
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Scaling an e-commerce start-up in India’s dispersed markets is challenging, but innovation, patience, and passionately solving hard problems have enabled Meesho’s founders to succeed.
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Author Talks: Rana Foroohar on a new ‘great game’ in the Arctic
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From shipping and rare earths to energy and security, the Arctic is gaining importance in the global economy. The Financial...
Shapers and Founders: The Untold Stories of Asia’s Extraordinary Owner-CEOs
Drawing on rigorous empirical research, interviews, and decades of advisory work, McKinsey experts reveal the leadership strategies...
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...
The judgment bottleneck: Balancing AI and human speeds in strategy
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Analysis now runs on AI time, but judgment still runs on human time. Three moves can help turn AI’s speed into better strategy...
McKinsey Institutes
Report - MGI Research
Workforce in motion: Skills and pathways to future jobs in the United States
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AI, automation, and broader structural trends are accelerating the reallocation of work across the US economy. Capturing its...
Report - McKinsey Health Institute
Closing the women’s health gap: Switzerland’s CHF 7 billion opportunity
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Addressing the women’s health gap in Switzerland could deliver eight additional healthy days per year for every woman and potentially...
Report - McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility
The hidden opportunity in the next $2 trillion of US–Latin America trade
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Our latest research finds that distinctive capabilities unique to Latino business owners and consumers in the United States could...
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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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