McKinsey Quarterly: Digital Edition

60th birthday edition: Growth

Since 1964, McKinsey Quarterly has delivered our most distinctive, crosscutting insights. We’re delighted to mark its 60th birthday with a yearlong celebration featuring special issues, interactive experiences, and bonus compilations.

We’re dedicating each issue in this commemorative year to a major force shaping the future of business. The latest, “The future of growth,” explores what companies are doing to deliver sustainable value during bad times as well as good. Don’t miss our first issue on technology and second issue on leadership—and be sure to explore this page for related interactive features and bonus issues of Quarterly classics formerly available only in print.

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We hope you enjoy this experience and welcome your feedback at newideas@mckinsey.com.

Revolutionary innovations propelling growth

Innovation is a critical ingredient in any growth recipe. And the biggest growth—both for the innovator and the broader economy—comes from revolutionary innovations.
Explore the interactive
The word GROWTH rapidly scales up to fill the entire screen. Each letter is built from multiple geometric shapes, nudged together to create a bold and dynamic structure. As it scales up, surrounding spheres and cylinders grow and shift in tandem, adding energy and movement.
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McKinsey Quarterly Classics special issue on growth

What’s the ultimate driver for CEOs and the top issue for their organizations? Growth. This bonus collection of 18 classic McKinsey Quarterly articles, to accompany “The future of growth”—the third of four issues celebrating the Quarterly’s 60th birthday—showcases some of our best pieces on this topic over the past six decades.
Dive into the special issue

60th birthday edition: Leadership

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The future of leadership
This special 60th anniversary issue looks at the skills and mindsets CEOs will need in the future—and how those do and don’t differ from today’s best practices.
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The future of the office
A major upheaval reduced demand for office space on a global scale. This interactive presentation visualizes the changes in three major cities and proposes what’s needed for the new generation of spaces.
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McKinsey Quarterly Classics special issue on leadership
This bonus collection of 15 classic McKinsey Quarterly articles—previously only available in archival print issues—traces how leadership ideas and attitudes have evolved over the past six decades.

60th birthday edition: Technology

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The future of technology
In this special technology issue—the first in the Quarterly’s 60th birthday celebration—we focus on the technologies of the future and what it will take to implement them successfully.
A striking monolithic sculpture made of polished steel stands on a cylindrical platform, featuring two intertwined letterforms: the number 6 and the letter Q. Together, they symbolize the 60th anniversary of McKinsey Quarterly. The Q creatively doubles as the zero in “60.”
Sixty years of innovation: Key moments in business technology
From semiconductors to cell phones to generative AI, here are 25 breakthroughs that changed business forever.
Book cover of McKinsey Quarterly Classics special issue on Technology
McKinsey Quarterly Classics special issue on technology
Read how discussions of technology in business have evolved—and how much they’ve stayed the same—over the past six decades in this bonus collection of 18 articles.