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Global Private Markets Report 2026
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Conditions that affect private capital have begun to clear, but the road ahead will be more demanding.
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 challenges for communities but also opening the door to economic renewal.
The State of Organizations 2026: Three tectonic forces that are reshaping organizations
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The State of Organizations 2026 report highlights sharper focus on performance at a time of tech innovation, economic disruption, and changing workforce structures.
2026 M&A trends: Navigating a rapidly rebounding market
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After dealmaking slowed momentarily in early 2025, global M&A activity quickly assumed a grand scale—delivering big gains for the year—with momentum continuing.
Women in the Workplace 2025
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Women face less career support and fewer opportunities to advance as companies show declining commitment to women’s progress. While women are as dedicated to their careers as men, there is a gap in their desire for promotion. That’s according to the latest Women in the Workplace report from McKinsey and LeanIn.Org.
Global Banking Annual Review 2025: Why precision, not heft, defines the future of banking
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Banks need to prepare for the next growth curve. Global Banking Annual Review 2025 shows how a targeted approach can help them thrive.
The infrastructure moment
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As the definition of infrastructure expands, investors, operators, and governments will need to alter their approaches to funding, construction, and maintenance.
McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2025
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Which frontier technologies matter most for companies in 2025? Our annual tech trends report highlights the latest technology breakthroughs, talent trends, use cases, and their potential impact on companies across sectors.
State of Beauty 2025: Solving a shifting growth puzzle
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As momentum cools and definitions of beauty expand, beauty players face a new mandate: Win over skeptical consumers, recalibrate across markets, and prove their worth beyond the hype.
Global Private Markets Report 2025: Braced for shifting weather
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Global private markets navigated uncertain conditions in 2024, leading to an uneven recovery across different asset classes.
The power of one: How standout firms grow national productivity
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National productivity growth is a matter of few firms taking bold strategic action rather than millions of firms raising efficiency.
The state of AI: How organizations are rewiring to capture value
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Organizations are beginning to create the structures and processes that lead to meaningful value from gen AI. While still in early days, companies are redesigning workflows, elevating governance, and mitigating more risks.
M&A Annual Report: Is the wave finally arriving?
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Powerful forces favor a resurgence in M&A, especially in North America, but dealmakers still have plenty of challenges to stare down.
Sporting Goods 2025—The new balancing act: Turning uncertainty into opportunity
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While the sporting goods industry has persevered over the past year, slowing growth forecasts are compelling executives to focus equally on revenue growth and productivity improvements.
Superagency in the workplace: Empowering people to unlock AI’s full potential
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Almost all companies invest in AI, but just 1 percent believe they are at maturity. Our research finds the biggest barrier to scaling is not employees—who are ready—but leaders, who are not steering fast enough.
Blueprint to close the women’s health gap: How to improve lives and economies for all
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Women experience substantial health inequities and poor health outcomes worldwide, and the global economy suffers as a result.
Thriving workplaces: How employers can improve productivity and change lives
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Investing in holistic employee health can create almost $12 trillion in global economic value.
Dependency and depopulation? Confronting the consequences of a new demographic reality
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Exploring the implications of a new demographic reality brought on by falling fertility and increasing longevity.
MCKINSEY GLOBAL INSTITUTE
At 250, sustaining America’s competitive edge
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America’s history of reinvention holds compelling lessons as the nation confronts a future of immense if uncertain opportunity
Agents, robots, and us: Skill partnerships in the age of AI
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AI is expanding the productivity frontier. Realizing its benefits requires new skills and rethinking how people work together with intelligent machines.
Out of balance: What’s next for growth, wealth, and debt
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Amid rising economic uncertainty, this research takes a long-term view on wealth and growth rooted in government, corporate, and household balance sheets.
The FDI shake-up: How foreign direct investment today may shape industry and trade tomorrow
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Announced FDI projects signal further changes in the geometry of global trade and the future map of international business.
The power of one: How standout firms grow national productivity
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National productivity growth is a matter of few firms taking bold strategic action rather than millions of firms raising efficiency.
Dependency and depopulation? Confronting the consequences of a new demographic reality
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Exploring the implications of a new demographic reality brought on by falling fertility and increasing longevity.
The next big arenas of competition
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Arenas are industries that transform the business landscape. Eighteen future arenas could reshape the global economy and generate $29 trillion to $48 trillion in revenues by 2040.
The hard stuff: Navigating the physical realities of the energy transition
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The energy transition is a physical transformation in its early stages. What challenges lie ahead?
A new future of work: The race to deploy AI and raise skills in Europe and beyond
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To gain the full productivity benefits of generative AI and other technologies, Europe and the United States will need to focus both on improving human capital and accelerating technology adoption.
A microscope on small businesses: Spotting opportunities to boost productivity
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MSMEs are vital for growth and jobs, but struggle with productivity. The route to higher productivity lies in creating a win-win economic fabric for all companies.
Investing in productivity growth
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It’s time to raise investment and catch the next productivity wave.
Geopolitics and the geometry of global trade
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Global trade patterns are reconfiguring. More shifts are likely and businesses need to be aware of the potential trade-offs of different paths ahead.
Retail & Marketing
Past forward: The modern rethinking of marketing’s core
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Gen AI and agentic AI are already accelerating the impact of classic marketing approaches to driving growth, but our State of Marketing Europe 2026 report finds few CMOs are acting boldly.
Sporting Goods 2025—The new balancing act: Turning uncertainty into opportunity
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While the sporting goods industry has persevered over the past year, slowing growth forecasts are compelling executives to focus equally on revenue growth and productivity improvements.
The State of Fashion 2025: Challenges at every turn
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The global fashion industry faces economic uncertainty, a dynamic market, and consumer behavior shifts. Finding pockets of growth means navigating a complex maze.
Time to move: Sporting goods 2024
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Many sporting goods executives are looking to 2024 with more optimism. But in the year ahead, they will need to adapt to shifting consumer preferences, revisit planning practices, embrace ecosystems, and take action on sustainability.
The State of Fashion 2024: Finding pockets of growth as uncertainty reigns
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Fashion companies will face economic headwinds, technology shifts, and an evolving competitive landscape in 2024. However, shifting consumer priorities will continue to offer opportunities.
State of grocery Europe 2023: Living with and responding to uncertainty
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2022 was overshadowed by inflation. As that shadow is lifting, European grocers are gearing up for future growth by investing in private labels, retail media, automation, and sustainability.
Risk
McKinsey on Risk: Resilience for sustainable, inclusive growth
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“Risk,” as defined by financial institutions, has not changed, and we understand that management of existing and potential threats is only part of the function. Positioning and growth amid this environment is equally essential in an effort to build resilience.
McKinsey on Risk, Number 13, October 2022
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Today’s business and public-sector leaders face a risk landscape disrupted at levels that few have seen before and none has ever confronted as an executive. We have reached a defining leadership moment, where executives are taking a step back and redefining resilience.
Technology & Transformation
McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2025
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Which frontier technologies matter most for companies in 2025? Our annual tech trends report highlights the latest technology breakthroughs, talent trends, use cases, and their potential impact on companies across sectors.
The state of AI: How organizations are rewiring to capture value
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Organizations are beginning to create the structures and processes that lead to meaningful value from gen AI. While still in early days, companies are redesigning workflows, elevating governance, and mitigating more risks.
M&A Annual Report: Is the wave finally arriving?
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Powerful forces favor a resurgence in M&A, especially in North America, but dealmakers still have plenty of challenges to stare down.
Superagency in the workplace: Empowering people to unlock AI’s full potential
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Almost all companies invest in AI, but just 1 percent believe they are at maturity. Our research finds the biggest barrier to scaling is not employees—who are ready—but leaders, who are not steering fast enough.
McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2024
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Which technology trends matter most for companies in 2024? New analysis by the McKinsey Technology Council highlights the adoption, development, and industry effects of advanced technologies.
AI for social good: Improving lives and protecting the planet
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As AI advances from predictive to generative capabilities, its potential to address social issues defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals expands.
Steady progress in approaching the quantum advantage
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Quantum technology could create value worth trillions of dollars within the next decade. The third annual synthesizes the latest opportunities in this burgeoning field.
Beyond the hype: Capturing the potential of AI and gen AI in TMT
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This collection presents McKinsey’s top insights on gen AI, providing a detailed examination of the significant opportunities and challenges it offers for leaders looking to steer their organizations into the future.
Finance & Investing
2026 M&A trends: Navigating a rapidly rebounding market
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After dealmaking slowed momentarily in early 2025, global M&A activity quickly assumed a grand scale—delivering big gains for the year—with momentum continuing.
Global Banking Annual Review 2025: Why precision, not heft, defines the future of banking
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Banks need to prepare for the next growth curve. Global Banking Annual Review 2025 shows how a targeted approach can help them thrive.
Global Private Markets Report 2025: Braced for shifting weather
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Global private markets navigated uncertain conditions in 2024, leading to an uneven recovery across different asset classes.
Global Insurance Report 2025: The pursuit of growth
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Finding profitable growth is an imperative for the world’s personal and commercial property and casualty insurers, while life carriers must adjust to changing consumer needs.
Global Banking Annual Review 2024: Attaining escape velocity
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In coming years, the “management quotient” will spell the difference between industry leaders and laggards.
McKinsey Global Private Markets Review 2024: Private markets in a slower era
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As financial institutions actively adopt emerging technologies, they should act now to future-proof themselves against growing cyber risks.
The cyber clock is ticking: Derisking emerging technologies in financial services
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As financial institutions actively adopt emerging technologies, they should act now to future-proof themselves against growing cyber risks.
Top M&A trends in 2024: Blueprint for success in the next wave of deals
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Will 2024 launch a bright new era for M&A? Anticipating what could be an inflection point, many dealmakers are preparing for a surge—and new market requirements—in the year ahead.
US wealth management: Amid market turbulence, an industry converges
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Traditional delivery models may soon be history, as firms of all stripes broaden both their offerings and their target client and adviser segments. The competition will be intense.
Organization & Leadership
The State of Organizations 2026: Three tectonic forces that are reshaping organizations
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The State of Organizations 2026 report highlights sharper focus on performance at a time of tech innovation, economic disruption, and changing workforce structures.
Netherlands advanced: Building a future labor market that works
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The Netherlands has high ambitions for living standards, housing, healthcare, education, and the environment, requiring higher productivity growth through technology and a “train of job transitions.”
Fulfilling the potential of US higher education
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With bold, decisive action, the US higher education sector could expand its impact, deliver on its promise of more-equitable outcomes, and improve the nation’s economic competitiveness.
CEO Counseling
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Explore McKinsey’s offerings on CEOs and the insights that shape the world of business leadership.
Author Talks: The collection
A series of interviews with authors of books on business and beyond.
Diversity & Inclusion
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 challenges for communities but also opening the door to economic renewal.
Women in the Workplace 2025
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Women face less career support and fewer opportunities to advance as companies show declining commitment to women’s progress. While women are as dedicated to their careers as men, there is a gap in their desire for promotion. That’s according to the latest Women in the Workplace report from McKinsey and LeanIn.Org.
Women in the Workplace 2024: The 10th-anniversary report
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In the tenth year of our Women in the Workplace research, in partnership with LeanIn.Org, we reflect on the notable gains women have made—and how their experiences at work are, in many ways, the same or worse than ten years ago. Sustainable progress toward parity requires that companies recommit to change.
From margins to mainstream: Asians and Pacific Islanders in Hollywood
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Asian and Pacific Islander consumers could generate billions of dollars in additional revenue—if the film and television industry can improve the representation and authenticity of API content.
Ethnocultural minorities in Europe: A potential triple win
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Greater inclusion of ethnocultural minorities could fill talent gaps and spur company growth, increase economic empowerment of these groups, and generate benefits for the economy and broader society.
The state of Black residents: The relevance of place to racial equity and outcomes
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At the current pace of change, it could take decades to improve outcomes for Black Americans and more than three centuries to get to racial parity. How can different types of communities move closer to delivering a better quality of life for all residents?
Closing the women’s health gap: A $1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies
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Investments addressing the women’s health gap could add years to life and life to years—and potentially boost the global economy by $1 trillion annually by 2040.
Women in the Workplace 2023
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Women are more ambitious than ever, and workplace flexibility is fueling them. Yet despite some hard-fought gains, women’s representation is not keeping pace. That’s according to the latest Women in the Workplace report from McKinsey, in partnership with LeanIn.Org.
The missing billion: Lack of disability data impedes healthcare equity
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Addressing the absence of health data on people with disabilities is the essential first step health systems and policy makers can take to reduce care inequity and improve outcomes for this population.
Empowering Black, Latina, and Native American women in tech
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The representation of Black, Latina, and Native American women in tech jobs is declining despite their rising share of tech degrees. Inclusive policies and practices could help companies retain them.
Sustainability
Global Energy Perspective 2025
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Geopolitical uncertainty, shifting policies, and increasing demand for power are reshaping the energy landscape. In this year’s report, we present our updated view on what’s to come in the energy system.
Global Energy Perspective 2024
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As the global energy transition enters a new phase, our Global Energy Perspective 2024 presents a data-driven view of the possible road ahead.
Global Materials Perspective 2024
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As the energy transition continues apace, the global materials supply is adapting. Our Global Materials Perspective 2024 presents a data-driven view of the road ahead.
Retailers’ climate road map: Charting paths to decarbonized value chains
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Most emissions captured in the average retailer’s Scope 3 metric are generated via product value chains. These value chains can be decarbonized—but only with targeted multistakeholder actions.
Building value by decarbonizing the built environment
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Accelerating decarbonization in the built environment is essential for a sustainable future, but industry challenges need to be addressed for solutions to scale.
Aluminum decarbonization at a cost that makes sense
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Production of this important metal has a significant carbon footprint. The path toward greener aluminum will require the participation of multiple stakeholders.
Uniquely Austin: Stewarding growth in America’s boomtown
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Austin is a booming region and an ascending economic powerhouse, but there are growing pains. Together, the region’s leaders can build a sustainable and inclusive future.
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