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Reinventing marketing workflows with agentic AI
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For marketers, AI-enabled workflows will fuel new levels of growth, speed, and efficiency. What is your activation plan?
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How leaders can help their organizations metabolize strain
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Trauma-informed leadership recognizes that sustained performance depends less on eliminating stress and more on managing how it affects attention, judgment, and relationships.
Podcast
Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon on adapting to disruption
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The chair and CEO reflects on an AI-fueled future, how he got through tough challenges early in his tenure, and how he sees the future.
Explainers
What is sovereign AI?
Three McKinsey experts explain what sovereign AI really means—and why control over the AI stack is becoming a strategic priority...
Lives & Legacies
A maestro of management, a pension fund strategist, and a true game changer
Our latest obituaries also include a designer who redefined red-carpet glamour, a versatile block trader, and a surgeon whose...
Week in Charts
When populations age
Disease burden is set to evolve differently across income archetypes, as demographic shifts accelerate worldwide, note McKinsey’s...
Themes
Rewired 2.0: How leading companies are (still) winning with AI
Companies that successfully transform with AI can boost their EBITDA by roughly 20 percent, according to Rewired: How Leading...
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The new geometry of trade: How leaders can respond to structural shifts
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Follow the money: How FDI is redrawing the global economy
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Shifts in foreign direct investment are shaking up industries of the future and rewiring global trade.
Podcast - The McKinsey Podcast
Can the US sustain its competitive edge?
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New research examines how AI, talent, infrastructure, and debt are converging to reshape US competitiveness—and what CEOs, boards, and other leaders can do about it.
Interview
Paving the road for AI agents: Interview with Factory CEO Matan Grinberg
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Factory CEO and cofounder Matan Grinberg discusses why scaling AI in software engineering depends less on flashy demos and more on changes to the operating model and how teams work.
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The new geometry of trade: How leaders can respond to structural shifts
Join McKinsey experts Shubham Singhal and Jeongmin Seong for a discussion on how business leaders can adapt to the new geometry of global trade. From navigating tariff-driven disruptions to capturing opportunities in high-growth regions and industries, the discussion will highlight practical strategies for competing in a complex multipolar trade environment.
McKinsey on Books
Author Talks: Why recessions aren’t as predictable as you think
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Are recessions cyclical—or just random shocks in disguise? Tyler Goodspeed, ExxonMobil’s chief economist, challenges long-held...
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...
How leaders can help their organizations metabolize strain
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Trauma-informed leadership recognizes that sustained performance depends less on eliminating stress and more on managing how...
McKinsey Institutes
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...
Interactive - McKinsey Health Institute
The health of nations: The return to better health, by country
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Explore how improving population health could deliver meaningful gains in healthy life and economic performance across countries....
Report - MGI Research
The race takes off in the next big arenas of competition
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In the arenas, investment cycles are accelerating, value pools are shifting, and a new type of competitor is scaling across industries....
Brainteasers
The McKinsey Crossword: Quarterly report | No. 265
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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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