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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.
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State of the Consumer 2026: When tech acceleration and cost pressures collide
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The consumer is changing fast. Four trends—the tech-driven path to purchase, the health revolution, the experience economy, and the resourceful consumer—will redefine the sector. Will brands keep up?
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Brilliant Moves: Coffee with FairPrice Group’s Vipul Chawla
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FairPrice Group’s Vipul Chawla chats with McKinsey’s Gautam Kumra about using AI to remove friction from shopping, navigating supply chain shocks, and balancing innovation with the mission to keep daily essentials affordable.
AI in life sciences explained: The technology that could reinvent medicine
Explainers
AI in life sciences explained: The technology that could reinvent medicine
Three McKinsey experts explain how AI is reshaping life sciences—where it’s creating value today, why so many efforts stall,...
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Lives & Legacies
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Our latest obituaries also include a Hollywood animator, a cable industry innovator, and a prize-winning doctor who built a tuberculosis...
The AI advantage in B2B pricing
Week in Charts
The AI advantage in B2B pricing
Data and analytics have long been crucial to B2B pricing, but new advances in AI are poised to reshape pricing decisions. According...
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McKinsey at Cannes Lions 2026: How AI is rewiring growth
How are AI and agentic systems rewiring growth? This question is taking center stage this week at the Cannes Lions International...
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Interviews

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What corporate leaders can learn from start-up founders

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Alurx Founder and CEO Julia Stewart discusses her journey from public company CEO to health tech entrepreneur—and how corporate leaders can build confidence to transform their companies with AI.
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The rise of the agentic shopper: ASOS’s AI investment

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The British fashion retailer’s chief technology officer discusses why agentic AI represents ‘a structural shift’ in how consumers engage with brands.
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The turning point for real-world robotics

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Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, shares a vision for robots that learn faster, respond in real time, and fit naturally into our lives.
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Wee Ee Cheong: Calm steward playing the long game for UOB

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As the second-generation leader of UOB, Wee Ee Cheong has devoted his career to the bank, guiding it steadily through change to safeguard the institution’s future for customers.
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McKinsey on Books

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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...
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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...
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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...
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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

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Report - MGI Research
Ramping up manufacturing in America?
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Probing how much manufacturing ramp-up would be needed to address US trade dependencies.
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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.
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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...
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The McKinsey Crossword: Made with AI | No. 266
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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