Monthly Highlights, April 2023

Monthly Highlights, April 2023

Senior partners Carolyn Dewar, Scott Keller, and Vikram Malhotra, authors of CEO Excellence, along with senior partner Kurt Strovink, asked the world’s top-performing CEOs which trends will have the biggest impact on how they lead their business in 2023 compared with past years. Their answers suggest that three “true signals” are most important: digital disruption, the economy, and geopolitics. This month’s first featured story looks at the specific and pragmatic actions CEOs are taking as a result of these signals. Our second featured story offers advice for senior executives looking to ascend to the CEO role. Other highlights in this month’s issue include the following topics:

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the state of global private markets in 2023

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how a company can chart a path to building a superpower

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how generative AI can help fashion businesses

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how organizations can better support their managers to deliver more value

Editor’s choice

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Actions the best CEOs are taking in 2023

Corporate leaders are addressing the risks while finding the opportunities in digital disruption, the economy, and geopolitical uncertainties.

3 strong signals

Stepping up: Becoming a high-potential CEO candidate

The road to becoming CEO is a difficult ascent for even the most seasoned leaders. Here are four keys to making the journey a success.

Tread carefully

THIS MONTH’s HIGHLIGHTS

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McKinsey Global Private Markets Review 2023: Private markets turn down the volume

According to our latest Global Private Markets Review, private markets faced a year of two halves in 2022, with buoyancy in the first half and plummeting deal volumes, declining performance, and falling valuations in the second.
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What’s your superpower? How companies can build an institutional capability to achieve competitive advantage

One capability often sets leading companies apart from the rest. Here’s how to build yours.
Find out now

Generative AI: Unlocking the future of fashion

While still nascent, generative AI has the potential to help fashion businesses become more productive, get to market faster, and serve customers better. The time to explore the technology is now.
Ways AI can boost business

Stop wasting your most precious resource: Middle managers

In the modern workplace, middle managers face many challenges. A new survey finds three areas where organizations can better support their managers and help them accomplish more.
Support managers

Geopolitical risk: Navigating a world in flux

In a fast-fragmenting world, geopolitical instability has vaulted to the top of the CEO agenda. Here’s what today’s fraught global dynamics mean for leaders—and how they can begin grappling with geopolitical risk successfully.
Develop resilience

The EU digital strategy: The impact of data privacy on global business

New data regulations from the European Union require organizational attention, and three key steps can help navigate the data privacy landscape.
Navigate the new landscape

ALSO New

Bias Busters: The perils of executive typecasting

Managing a cyber risk event: ‘Be a student of a crisis’

Procurement 2023: Ten CPO actions to defy the toughest challenges

K–12 teachers are quitting. What would make them stay?

Climate investing: Continuing breakout growth through uncertain times

How three global companies navigate geopolitical risk to build resilience

Author Talks: In the ‘age of AI,’ what does it mean to be smart?

Global Insurance Report 2023: Closing the personal P&C protection gap

Conversations in motion: Safe, autonomous driving for everyone

Global Economics Intelligence executive summary

Growth rules: Which matter most?

CEO alpha: A new approach to generating private equity outperformance

Virtual health for all: Closing the digital divide to expand access

Scaling green businesses: Next moves for leaders

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McKinsey Explainers

Find direct answers to complex questions, backed by McKinsey’s expert insights.
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McKinsey Themes

Browse our essential reading on the topics that matter.
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McKinsey on Books

Explore this month’s best-selling business books prepared exclusively for McKinsey Publishing by NPD.
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McKinsey Chart of the Day

See our daily chart that helps explain a changing world—as we strive for sustainable, inclusive growth.
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McKinsey Classics

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