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Staying in the game: How women CEOs build leadership that endures
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What distinguishes those who achieve sustained excellence in the CEO job? In-depth conversations with leaders reveal five common principles they rely on to guide their actions.
Report
Infrastructure: Investing to support global growth
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Private capital’s role in meeting the world’s growing need for infrastructure continues to grow, with record fundraising and deployment in 2025.
Report - MGI Research
Geopolitics and the geometry of global trade: 2026 update
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Tariff splashes, AI waves, and the ripples reshaping global trade.
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
Megadeals propel M&A activity
After dealmaking slowed momentarily in early 2025, global M&A activity quickly assumed a grand scale—delivering big gains for...
Themes
Leading disruption before it leads you
The riskiest disruption isn’t necessarily the one coming. It may be the one CEOs refuse to lead.
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How top economic performers lean into their competitive advantage to guide their strategy
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All shook up: How foreign direct investment is shaping future business
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Foreign direct investment is increasingly being channeled into future-shaping industries, reconfiguring trade networks.
Podcast - The McKinsey Podcast
Leadership lessons from private equity CEOs
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Private equity leaders face relentless pressure to deliver fast results. New research shows how the best of them respond—and what others can learn from their discipline.
Interview
The big pivot: Interview with Körber CEO Stephan Seifert
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Over ten years, Körber transformed from a machinery-only company to one that offers a complete technology stack. Chairman Stephan Seifert details how it pivoted to achieve almost 100 percent growth.
McKinsey on Books
Author Talks: How capitalism became a worldwide revolution
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The history of capitalism is longer and more global than people may realize. Historian Sven Beckert explains how its evolution...
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...
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
Geopolitics and the geometry of global trade: 2026 update
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Tariff splashes, AI waves, and the ripples reshaping global trade.
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.
Data Points
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