Number 13, October 2022

McKinsey on Risk, Number 13, October 2022

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.

Articles in this issue

Article

Resilience for sustainable, inclusive growth

June 7, 2022 -

Resilience should be seen as the ability to deal with adversity, withstand shocks, and continuously adapt and accelerate as disruptions and crises arise over time.

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Article - McKinsey Quarterly

A defining moment: How Europe’s CEOs can build resilience to grow in today’s economic maelstrom

October 12, 2022 -

Can leaders lift their companies to the next frontier of resilience—not only to survive but also to thrive?

Article

Using analytics to address inflation risks and strengthen competitive positioning

August 18, 2022 -

In the new inflationary environment, company leaders can protect their business and gain competitive advantage by deploying analytics-aided strategies.

Article

Supply chains: To build resilience, manage proactively

May 23, 2022 -

Supply chain upheavals show little sign of abating. Companies can address them by reconsidering outdated, short-term strategies and beginning the hard work of building structural resilience.

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Article

How to build geopolitical resilience amid a fragmenting global order

September 8, 2022 -

Organizations need to strategically invest in capabilities, people, processes, structures, and technology to navigate the risks arising from an evolving and fraught geopolitical landscape.

Article

Risk transformations: The heart, the art, and the science

April 7, 2022 -

Successful large-scale risk transformation requires a combination of heart, art, and science to keep the momentum and deliver sustainable outcomes.

Article - McKinsey Quarterly

Does ESG really matter—and why?

August 10, 2022 -

Although valid questions have been raised about ESG, the need for companies to understand and address their externalities is likely to become essential to maintaining their social license.

Article - McKinsey Quarterly

How to make ESG real

August 10, 2022 -

While ESG is likely to evolve both in substance and name in the coming years, its underlying impulse is here to stay. Here’s how companies can take a more systematic and rewarding approach to ESG.

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Article

Securing your organization by recruiting, hiring, and retaining cybersecurity talent to reduce cyberrisk

June 29, 2022 -

Shed the conventional methods. Talent-to-value protection defines the most important cybersecurity roles that demonstrate the greatest reduction in risk for the enterprise.