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| | | | This weekend, explore the latest technology trends shaping business, what elite athletes can teach business leaders about winning, and more.
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| | Fourteen technology trends are changing the business landscape in 2026. Michael Chui, Roger Roberts, and Tanguy Catlin break them down—from agentic AI and cybersecurity to quantum—to help leaders decide where to act, invest, or keep watch. | | | |
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| | What can CEOs learn from Olympic athletes and championship coaches? Senior Partner Seth Goldstrom studied what distinguishes those who win repeatedly. In his Winning video series, he identifies eight behaviors that set elite athletes, teams, and coaches apart and explores how business leaders can apply them. | | | |
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| | Humanoid robots get most of the attention in physical AI, but they’re expected to account for just 2 percent of the sector’s value by 2045. So where is the real opportunity? In a recent McKinsey Live event, Ani Kelkar and Mark Patel explore the hidden value pools—and what leaders need to do now to capture them. | | | |
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| | The past century brought extraordinary human progress—but much of that progress remains unfinished. In an episode of The McKinsey Podcast, Chris Bradley, Marc Canal, Nick Leung, and Sven Smit—coauthors of McKinsey Global Institute’s recent book A Century of Plenty—explore what it would take to expand prosperity and the role human ingenuity and AI could play in another century of progress. | | | |
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| | | | | The energy system has proven surprisingly resilient, but shock absorbers are thinning. Energy security has no easy exits but room to maneuver. | | Prepare for future shocks  | | | |
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| | | | | AI is not the only significant driver of change for insurers: 18 high-growth industries present major new opportunities even as they reconfigure industry economics. | | Explore 18 high-growth industries | | | |
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| | | —Edited by Nadia Wynter, editor, Washington, DC
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| | | | | Only 6 percent of companies see significant EBIT impact from AI, and closing the spend–value gap is now a critical governance challenge. Join Senior Partners Tanguy Catlin and Lari Hämäläinen on September 22 to learn how to weigh agentic AI against the true cost of the work it replaces and where to scale up or pull back. | | Register now | | | |
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