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Our latest research finds that distinctive capabilities unique to Latino business owners and consumers in the United States could create significant growth in one of the world’s biggest economic corridors.
Addressing the women’s health gap in Switzerland could deliver eight additional healthy days per year for every woman and potentially contribute more than 7 billion Swiss francs in annual GDP by 2040.
Forward-deployed engineers work inside another company’s own systems. Three McKinsey leaders explain how FDEs help companies derive impact from AI.
New research maps hidden upstream dependencies in the US semiconductor supply chain and outlines potential mitigation strategies to make the ecosystem more resilient.
Where you live shapes far more than you’d think. New research points to how community, place, and connection relate to getting ahead.
Analysis now runs on AI time, but judgment still runs on human time. Three moves can help turn AI’s speed into better strategy decisions.
Cognition co-founder and President Russell Kaplan explains why the next frontier of AI in software engineering is about more than writing code faster and what it takes to turn autonomous agents into measurable business value.
Moving an AI tool from pilot to production can nearly quadruple its cost. Three McKinsey experts explain why—and how to tell whether it’s worth it.
The shift from software as a service to AI-enabled planning could move decision-making from fixed cycles to real time, but success will require the right governance, expertise, and operating model.
Many organizations are still measuring AI adoption instead of value. The AI value curve helps identify where AI’s automation potential can be deployed most cost-effectively.
McKinsey’s Capital Excellence experts discuss how AI and technology can boost construction productivity, address labor shortages, and accelerate delivery of complex capital projects.
An AI operating system can become an enterprise’s “second brain,” but only if CEOs rethink how management itself evolves.
Digital and AI are changing the way capital projects are selected, designed, procured, built, and steered. Leaders are moving beyond pilots to rewire how projects are planned and delivered.
Customer experience is a competitive imperative for medtechs. To create a durable advantage, it must be designed into products from day one, not added as a post-sale service.
Scaling an e-commerce start-up in India’s dispersed markets is challenging, but innovation, patience, and passionately solving hard problems have enabled Meesho’s founders to succeed.
A golden age for the industry is becoming a golden age for a smaller group of asset managers.
While debates about AI’s impact on the workforce dominate headlines, the biggest challenge ahead will be helping workers find the most direct pathway into growing jobs, write Eric Kutcher and Tanguy Catlin in Fortune.
Strategy is a team sport, but the value it creates ultimately depends on the CEO’s involvement.
Leading companies are tracking six emerging patterns of geopolitical change and realigning their businesses to achieve resilience, seize growth, and build competitive advantage.
As the relationship between consumer-packaged-goods companies and retailers becomes more complex, agentic AI can recapture lost sales. But are leaders ready to harness the technology’s power?
Marrying Eastern philosophy and Western management culture has given many of Asia’s owner-CEOs a unique edge in growing their businesses.
From black swans to gray rhinos, geopolitical shocks are multiplying. Here’s the tool kit smart leaders use to see them coming.
As construction productivity stagnates, companies can stand out by employing granular, achievable rates of production to optimize schedules, improve productivity, and make delivery predictable.
With industry performance plateauing, medtech leaders must earn back investor trust with fresh strategies and better execution.
From shipping and rare earths to energy and security, the Arctic is gaining importance in the global economy. The Financial Times’ Rana Foroohar explores its role in a new era of great-power competition.
Inference is reshaping AI economics, infrastructure architectures, and investment priorities across the semiconductor ecosystem.
The first phase of enterprise AI put powerful new tools in people’s hands. Capturing the larger opportunity from agentic AI will require leaders to rethink the shape of the organization itself.
Agentic AI is reshaping the case for modernization in insurance. Leaders from Guidewire, Bessemer Venture Partners, and SAP discuss how insurers can respond, considering their existing commitments.
As technology transforms the factory floor, industrial companies are confronting a broader question: What will it take to lead the next era of manufacturing?
Boards and CEOs can build value-creation plans that withstand and even benefit from shareholder activist scrutiny.
The risk function’s fundamental purpose has not changed, but the nature of the risks, the pace at which they materialize, and the tools available to manage them have.
Household budgets in Africa are tight and channels increasingly fragmented. Four trends are redefining how consumers discover, decide, and spend, and how consumer-facing companies can respond.
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s CIO shares that modernization means rebuilding infrastructure, data, and talent at once—while keeping the mission and a relentless pace of change in mind.
With a more coordinated approach, smaller cities in the middle of the country could generate trillions of dollars in added economic output.
Companies often have significant opportunities to unlock cash. Four practices can help CFOs free it up.
There are certain aspects of the AI opportunity that chief executives cannot hand off to others—raising the organization’s ambition, rearchitecting how it works, and resetting its culture.
A McKinsey survey finds that New Yorkers prioritize healthy longevity—and spend accordingly.
McKinsey research finds that companies executing transformations with rigor are much more likely to meet overall organizational transformation goals. Chris Hagedorn, Preeya Mody, and Michel Morenville join us to discuss what rigor really means in the context of transformation and
Mayfield’s former Chief Marketing Officer Kamini Ramani draws on Indian women leaders’ experiences in corporate America to bring a culturally rooted lens to ambition, resilience, and leadership.
Fear and change can go hand in hand. Executives who understand this can significantly improve their odds of transformation success, while the executives who don’t risk sabotaging their change programs.
Subsidized AI pilots are expiring as usage explodes. Here’s how US public sector leaders can treat AI spend as a managed category before the bill arrives.
Mikhail Lomtadze, cofounder and CEO of Kaspi, believes the only measure that matters is whether Kaspi makes customers’ lives better or not—and why that single conviction changes everything else.
Nearly 90 percent of companies are investing in AI, but only 6 percent see material impact. The difference is in how they approach it.
AI, automation, and broader structural trends are accelerating the reallocation of work across the US economy. Capturing its benefits requires developing new professional pathways and skills, and reducing barriers between declining and growing occupations.
As AI reshapes roles, leaders face a bigger question: how to rethink jobs, teams, and the way work gets done in a fundamentally different era.
Commodity markets have entered a new era of persistent volatility. For fuel retailers, this is a chance to strengthen resilience and unlock value, but only with strategic investment and a shift in mindset.
AI won’t replace clinicians, but it can improve quality, increase access, and reshape the workforce, payments, and patient volumes. Today, AI can perform some 16 to 22 percent of US outpatient care.
As AI reshapes how consumers browse, shop, and buy, retailers must choose a mission for every location—and commit to it.
Bret Taylor, Sierra cofounder and OpenAI chair, believes AI’s near-term cybersecurity risks are real but solvable, and its greater power lies in delivering the world’s best knowledge to everyone.
Our new analysis reveals the odds of reaching $1 billion in sales—and how the paths to that milestone differ by category and ownership.
At Cannes Lions 2026, LinkedIn CMO Jessica Jensen and McKinsey senior partner Dianne Esber discussed what it takes to turn AI from experimentation into a catalyst for growth.
AI could improve both safety and productivity by anticipating problems before they arise, detecting worker fatigue and automating dangerous tasks.
As India’s economy continues to ramp up, insurers have an opportunity to capture value by improving productivity, modernizing operating models, and scaling technology and AI across the enterprise.
How does business ownership compare with owning a sports team? Baltimore Orioles owner David M. Rubenstein explains the leadership mindset, culture building, and long-term thinking that team ownership requires.
Embedding the latest AI and technology within day-to-day operations is transforming maintenance from a cost center into a significant driver of value.
For procurement leaders in the resources sector, using AI to codify the function’s category expertise does not just capture more value—it turns hard-won judgment into a compounded, durable advantage.
New McKinsey Health Institute analysis finds that addressing modifiable risk factors could add 12 years to healthy life expectancy at birth and add nearly 9 percent to the global economy by 2050.
US manufacturers have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reshore the production of critical and at-risk goods, but to do so, they will need to aggressively ramp up production from today’s levels.
The physicist and policymaker says the coming decade will be defined by a race for electrons—and that nuclear power, grid investment, and new public-private models will be part of the picture.
In the 10th edition of McKinsey’s automotive consumer survey, China’s car buyers reveal where value is heading—and why the road ahead is exciting for consumers everywhere.
Travelers’ discovery and booking journeys have been reshaped. How can travel players show up at every turn on the path from search to certainty?
AI is getting more expensive for companies. As rising token usage and workflow complexity make costs harder to predict, leaders need new ways to manage AI economics.
AI is accelerating drug discovery, but investment has concentrated in molecule design—the stage with the best data and clearest tools. The industry’s real constraint lies elsewhere: identifying and validating the right disease mechanism.
Novartis’s chief data and digital officer for biomedical research explains how data platform investments are paying off in AI safety prediction, generative chemistry, and faster translation.
McKinsey’s Dan Swan explains why capturing AI’s full potential requires companies to move beyond experimentation and fundamentally rewire their businesses across technology, processes, people, and leadership.
A new era of increased demand and constrained supply is fundamentally changing the global transformer market and reshaping decision-making across the value chain.
Six design dimensions can help states stand up social care referral networks that meaningfully improve health outcomes for Medicaid members in rural and underserved communities.
AI is fueling unprecedented semiconductor growth while upending long-standing industry dynamics and shifting the sources of value.
What compels us to act when we see a problem? Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation CEO Jim Bildner reflects on social entrepreneurship, personal loss, and how hope can move us to act.
Organizations must redesign workflows to realize value from AI, but the challenge is where to begin. An opportunity lies between workflow steps, where work passes between teams and systems.
Not every industrial company in a high-growth market earns a higher valuation. The biggest winners consistently combine four management actions.
Genentech’s chief marketing officer discusses AI, the future of marketing, patient trust, and why growth depends as much on culture as technology.
Five common behavioral patterns can cause change efforts to falter. Know the warning signs—and what to do about them.
The energy system has proven surprisingly resilient, but shock absorbers are thinning. Energy security has no easy exits but room to maneuver.
As enterprises shift from experimenting with models to redesigning workflows, new research suggests Europe could be well-positioned for this new AI application era.
Client loyalty evolves quickly. Leading banks are reclaiming the 12 to 25 percent of wallet share that changes hands every year instead of letting it drift.
Successful transformations no longer require an army of people at the center.
UK banks have never been more profitable—but have rarely been more exposed. Success depends on securing customers and deposits, winning the commercial transaction layer, and rebuilding the cost base.
Are the signals that shape power, trust, and influence hiding in plain sight? Calibrate CEO Pamela Meyer says spotting them can help leaders avoid missteps and make better decisions.
As their portfolios become more complex and productivity gains slow, biopharma manufacturers are investing heavily to keep pace with rising demand. But capacity alone will not solve the problem.
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.
Which frontier technologies matter most for companies in 2026? Our annual report highlights the latest technology innovations, developments, and talent trends and their potential impact on business and society.
What if the biggest risk isn’t too much technological progress—but too little?
Many enterprises are scaling AI agents faster than they are redesigning the work underneath. A detailed blueprint supports the rollout and lays the groundwork for lasting value creation.
Australia’s prosperity has been built through deliberate choices, investment, and reinvention. After a lost decade of growth, the nation can draw on its strengths to choose another century of plenty.
In the wake of disruption to transit in the Strait of Hormuz, buyers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are anticipating shifts in their procurement strategies. Here are the top changes they plan to make.
Challenges across the ecosystem delay the transition to zero-emission trucks, resulting in rising pressure on European OEMs due to potential CO2 penalties and growing competition.
The vast majority of Europe’s truck-related revenue flows after a vehicle is sold. Capturing that value presents a major growth opportunity.
Chinese truck OEMs are building an inevitable presence in Europe—what their advantages are and how European truck OEMs could remain competitive
The rules of the road are changing fast for Europe’s truck industry. Here’s how it can compete in an age of AI, disruption, and automation.
Agentic and physical AI can rewire the commercial vehicle industry for next-level performance and competitiveness.
The advent of autonomous trucks and buses is set to define new form factors and business models, but Europe risks falling behind.
A quarter of America’s manufactured imports face critical trade dependencies. Strengthening US manufacturing will depend not only on capital but also on talent, energy, and resilient supplier networks.
A group of fast-growing industries is reshaping the competitive landscape. Their rise requires business leaders to rethink strategy in two important ways.
Attackers now move at machine speed, but organizations make decisions at committee speed. To close the gap, businesses need a different operating model and committed executive leadership.
Eight disciplines for defining success, building the system to achieve it, and finding an edge when the margin between good and great is razor-thin.
Maintenance outages remain one of the largest, most complex performance drivers for operators. Here’s how digital and AI can help.
Nokia’s Sanjay Mehta shares how a persistently uncertain world has driven an evolution in the role and capabilities of procurement.
A new podcast series based on the McKinsey Global Institute’s most recent book explains why another century of broad-based human progress is within reach.
Efficient, reliable power conversion technologies are critical for global electrification. With an expected value pool of about $95 billion in 2030, opportunities in the power conversion market abound.
AI is shaped by forces far beyond the technology itself, and its effects reach just as widely. Mapping how the pieces interact helps us see what could influence its course and where hurdles and opportunities may emerge.
Private equity firms are under increasing pressure to create value in a tougher market, with longer hold times and evolving value creation theses. Leading funds are using re-underwriting as a repeatable discipline that supports better decisions across the hold period. Join AD Bha
Drawing on two decades of collaboration, Lloyds Banking Group’s Charlie Nunn and McKinsey’s Tunde Olanrewaju explore how trust, curiosity, and optimism help leaders reimagine institutions in the age of AI.
Lessons from cognitive science can help leaders become wiser, more inspiring, and more resilient. McKinsey Senior Adviser Caroline Webb explains why human intelligence is a growing leadership advantage.
With incentives declining and input costs rising, electric vehicle profitability is under pressure. Targeted design levers can reduce material costs by 10 to 25 percent while preserving performance.
New research shows that organizations undergoing AI transformation succeed not by adopting one “best” operating model, but by making intentional design choices and executing them effectively.
The traditional annual budget process is broken. It is rigid, backward-looking, and not operationally fit to keep up with today's fast-moving markets. Top-performing companies are outpacing peers by budgeting differently. Matthew Maloney, Karen McLoughlin, and Michele Tam join us
As AI and digital capabilities become more widely adopted in logistics operations, the companies seeing returns from their investments are doing three things differently.
Our biennial global survey of 5,500 farmers finds that they are becoming selective in their spending in the face of economic pressures. AI is making inroads, even as survey respondents rely on trusted advisers for purchasing guidance.
Adopting digital and AI advances can help rail infrastructure technology address long-standing challenges. Where should operators prioritize?
For Saehong Hur, continued communication and an integrated mindset are vital for adapting to changing market needs and maximizing value.
Warranty and goodwill costs automotive OEMs billions each year, but a more strategic approach can deliver significant P&L and cash impact within 12 to 24 months.
European utilities face a period of discontinuity: Electrification, renewables, flexibility needs, AI, and policy shifts are reshaping economics, driving four strategic responses as industry structure is redefined.
A set of common traits underlies Asian founders’ success: Passion for their work, ongoing curiosity, boundless energy, and a strong belief in their people.
How do exceptional leaders create enduring institutions? Three McKinsey authors reveal the leadership core behaviors and mindsets behind Asia’s most successful founder-CEOs—and how leaders everywhere can apply them.
The Air Force’s former top enlisted leader reflects on the value of lifelong learning, writing your own playbook, and preparing the next generation to serve.
Banks can better compete against digital-first rivals by using AI to deliver more effective, hyperpersonalized customer engagement. Here are four key components of this strategy.
Rebuilding American manufacturing could cost up to $2 trillion. What will it take to get today’s factories up to speed?
From tomatoes and copper to data centers and steel, the modern economy depends on a material world hidden in plain sight.
Recent data shows that buyout firms that maintain strict price discipline are delivering significantly higher MOIC than their peers.
Switzerland remains one of Europe’s most attractive locations for multinationals—but attractiveness is no longer self-sustaining. The question is not whether it stays attractive, but whether it actively fosters the conditions that sustain it.
In an expanding global energy system, the next phase of the transition will require not just more low-carbon capacity but also system-wide investment in flexibility and resilience.
Asians are worried about retirement but largely underprepared for it. The retirement industry can close the gap between customers’ awareness and action by rethinking traditional approaches to insurance.
With 160 years of experience, Boerse Stuttgart Group is Europe's sixth-largest exchange group, helping position Europe for the future through digital, blockchain innovation, and financial infrastructure.
AI has the potential to improve build processes and operations within semiconductor fabs. Early adopters could see significant cost improvement and productivity gains.
Bob Li, AstraZeneca's Global Head of Medical Affairs, Oncology, on why only 7 percent of cancer patients get access to clinical trials, and what decentralized trials, AI, and international collaboration could do to change that within a decade.
Scale is where the value is. Enabling scale depends on how strong your foundations are.
Consumer behavior is more dynamic and unpredictable than ever. Our latest research highlights four converging trends redefining how consumers shop, what they value, and why they buy.
Brieane Olson, CEO of the US-based clothing retailer, says the secret to the company’s success is community cocreation—which can work in other industries, too.
People are at the heart of any technology transformation. Leading organizations are making changes now to help their talent—and their digital workers—thrive side by side.
AI’s largest gains rarely come from labor savings alone. They come from faster decisions, better use of existing assets, and opportunities that would otherwise be missed.
As the current playbook reaches its limits, international payments is transitioning from a stand-alone product to a feature embedded in broader services. Here is how industry players can make the pivot.
AI could unlock $230 billion for oil and gas and OFSE companies. The challenge is where to concentrate, how to scale, and how to share value when efficiency reduces the activity that many contracts reward.
McKinsey partner Fangning Zhang discusses what’s driving China’s acceleration in drug discovery, why intense competition is fueling speed and cost efficiency, and what global R&D leaders need to do to build a genuine China strategy.
Organizations are deploying agentic coding tools and coming to grips with the costs of AI while still seeking to capture more of the benefits that their workers are deriving from their individual use of AI.
Early experience implementing agentic workflows highlights emerging trade-offs that frontline leaders need to understand.
Reckitt didn’t sequence change. It did three moves at once: transforming its core, separating noncore businesses, and resetting its operating model. That decisive reset cut business complexity, accelerated decisions, and repositioned the company for stronger growth, higher margin
Only a few software teams are seeing real impact from incorporating AI. The key is launching an AI-driven redesign of the entire product development system, rather than just deploying new tools.
Invesco President and CEO Andrew Schlossberg argues that AI should be part of a firm’s strategy, not on the sidelines, and that trust, once lost, is hard to win back.
A former CMS administrator and current Oracle Health and Life Sciences executive discusses leadership, public–private collaboration, and the promise of AI and value-based care.
Plenty may be possible—but what would it take to make it probable?
Michelle Williams, a leading voice in epidemiology and public health, advocates that society view the health of a population not as charity but as infrastructure upon which thriving communities are built.
As AI adoption grows, mission-driven organizations must weigh how to adopt new capabilities without sacrificing the trust central to every donor relationship, constituent served, and mission pursued.
Europe’s pulp and paper industry faces weaker demand, rising costs, and growing competition. The next frontier will focus on operations, commercial management, and capital allocation.
Business class isn’t just for corporate travelers anymore. Affluent vacationers are splurging on premium cabins—and becoming one of the biggest drivers of airline profitability.
The Tokyo-based biopharmaceutical company is accelerating its pipeline by innovating at the intersection of biology, modality, and disease.
As both organizations begin their second century, Suzano’s Beto Abreu and McKinsey’s Tracy Francis discuss what it takes to lead for the next generation.
Lessons from markets around the world can help commercial payments players keep pace with a rapidly evolving environment.
Long-term value creation is foundational to building strong companies and economies, yet many leaders struggle to ensure that well-conceived, well-executed strategies receive full recognition from investors. Senior Partner Ryan Davies and Associate Partner Jacob Marcus join us to
Technology may power AI transformation, but people determine whether it succeeds. Leaders can build trust through transparency, clarity, and investment in employees to create lasting change.
In today’s tougher exit environment, private equity firms are facing longer holding periods, valuation gaps, and increased pressure to return capital. Kai Vollhardt and Jelena Bauer are joined by Christian Habrich and Frederyk Schröder as they unpack their latest article on how t
We asked some of the leading players in minimobility to share their insights into what’s preventing broader adoption—and what could enable it. Here’s what they had to say.
Joseph Tsai has reshaped Cathay United Bank by balancing innovation with a long-term view that consistently focuses on the customer.
The competition for Asia’s high-net-worth-individual market is underway. Insurers are well-placed to address evolving customer needs.
Industrial companies are entering the most consequential commercial reset in decades—and many are less prepared than they believe.
Agentic AI is reshaping global business services, but realizing its potential will require leaders to rethink workflows, talent, and operating models.
What if success depends less on talent than on luck, resilience, and your choices when things go wrong? Former Inflection CEO Mike Grossman challenges conventional wisdom about success and leadership.
Joy Rhoden of the American Hospital Association discusses how data, community partnerships, expanded care teams, and a focus on addressing health disparities are essential to improving maternal health outcomes.
At their core, AI transformations are a reinvention of how work gets done. This requires change leadership, not just change management.
AI is advancing faster than organizations can adapt. Reaching the next productivity frontier will depend on workers across the economy acquiring the needed habits and skills.
Infrastructure is at a pivotal inflection point: its definition is expanding beyond traditional assets to digital and interconnected systems, demanding a fundamental mindset shift by governments, investors, and operators to plan, fund, and maintain integrated infrastructure that
Suzy Welch shares how to find a career that’s right for you.
Seven myths hamper growth in the new world of AI-driven growth. Overcoming them requires leaders to focus on redesigning how commercial decisions are made.
RGMx helped Reckitt improve pricing, promotions, and assortment. Smart Execution helps those choices land at the point of sale by using AI and data to strengthen product availability and retailer partnerships.
Our latest obituaries also include the first American to scale Mount Everest, a frugal Fed chair, and a fashion cofounder tailor-made for her visionary role.
New AI-enabled tools have the potential to reshape how distributors price, source, negotiate, and manage assortments, with immediate financial and strategic impact.
Can you imagine even the poorest country in the world achieving the prosperity and quality of life of today’s Switzerland—by 2100?
As the United States celebrates 250 years, Americans share their aspirations for a better life, the barriers they face, and their priorities for expanding economic opportunity in a changing nation.
From sneakers to crash test dummies, many everyday designs were developed based on the male body. Nike’s former global creative director explains why better design starts with broader perspectives.
The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff describes the value of challenging the status quo, strengthening institutions, and inspiring the next generation of leaders.
Organizations that create the most effective agentic HR functions don’t just scale pilots. They define the human–agent operating model for the function first, then work backward to implementation.
Sharpen your problem-solving skills with the McKinsey Quarterly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind and is built around a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find.
Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson reveals where we stand on the J-curve, how leaders can accelerate progress and create new value, and what gives him hope—and keeps him up at night.
The power infrastructure being built for data centers in the United States is unlikely to become stranded—even if compute demand falls short of current projections.
Bold actions to spur corporate dynamism can unlock transformational opportunities for Japan in a new era and reset its growth trajectory.
Competitive advantage is becoming much more fluid as market positions shift faster across industries, with advantages eroding and differentiation narrowing. Despite this increased volatility, companies often fail to actively monitor shifts in their competitive edge. Join Matt Ban
Faced with declining customer satisfaction, North American utilities are turning to agentic AI to transform the customer experience for the better while reducing costs.
As AI increases energy demand, data centers are moving to higher voltage systems, creating new opportunities for electricity and component providers.
What separates good from exceptional? Learning Leader Show host Ryan Hawk reveals why disciplined daily habits and purposeful ambition are the foundation of high performance.
Executives from AMD, Dell, Liquid AI, and Mercedes-Benz discuss how to structure processes with AI in mind and why enterprise-wide transformation is about people, not just technology.
As AI accelerates the digital economy, the real constraint is physical: housing, power, and infrastructure. Laura Hines-Pierce, co-CEO of Hines, explains why execution—not capital—will define the next era of value creation.
Archil Gachechiladze, Lion Finance and Bank of Georgia CEO, describes how focused execution and cultural change have driven the group’s strong financial performance.
Venture building works best when it’s part of a dual-track strategy—launching new businesses alongside the core—with clear oversight from the CEO on capital allocation, culture, and capabilities.
Covestro’s chief commercial officer Monique Buch thinks of AI as a business strategy not a technology upgrade.
Sai Jasti, Bayer’s senior vice president and head of data science and AI, on how the company is transforming its workflows and embedding AI in research and development to meet ambitious productivity goals.
The Blue Star Families’ CEO explains what the military family experience reveals about the meaning of service and the relationships that can strengthen community bonds.
Companies are reassessing how they work, their team structures, and what it means to be a manager in this bracing new era.
Azerbaijan’s national energy company set out to digitalize one of its most strategic industrial assets. With bold leadership, deep workforce upskilling, and a rewired approach to digital and operations, SOCAR Carbamide transformed performance—and earned global recognition as a Wo
AI makes continuous financial planning practical at scale. Organizations can identify risks sooner, evaluate trade-offs faster, and intervene before performance gaps widen.
Why do so many promising products fail to gain traction? A McKinsey alumnus explains why conventional thinking leads founders astray—and shares a practical framework for finding the “ideal” customer.
Tech investment alone won’t deliver a competitive edge. Organizations need systems that strengthen both brain health and AI-era skills so people can keep up with rising cognitive demands.
Guided by his leadership North Star of “performing for today while transforming for tomorrow,” Sanjiv Bajaj believes in breaking businesses to grow, while fostering an entrepreneurial ethos.
AI could upend the industry’s long-standing structures and dynamics. Competitive advantage will accrue to carriers, distributors, and tech providers that prepare now.
The academic and safety-net hospital system is transforming technology into a driver of patient access, operational reliability, and business growth. By strengthening digital tools, modernizing systems, and embedding AI across workflows, Montefiore Einstein is building a stronger
As the situation in the Strait of Hormuz makes clear, business success increasingly depends on managing global disruption and risk in a three-dimensional way: reroute, replace, and substitute.
Our recent survey reveals how banks are evolving model risk management: by strengthening resilience, unlocking more confident AI adoption—and turning it into a reliable source of value creation.
Agentic AI could fundamentally reshape supply chain operations, but realizing its potential will require companies to move beyond isolated use cases and orchestrate work across people, processes, and technology.
Indonesia’s second-largest telecom operator turned a complex merger into a platform for growth, reshaping how decisions are made, how employees work, and how AI creates measurable value across the enterprise.
Verified emissions are a decarbonization tool and compliance requirement, but also a means to improve cost control and forecasting. A suite of targeted actions can help EU importers mitigate risk.
The best-performing PE firms build on deal diligence in a disciplined way throughout the hold period, revisiting and retuning their exit options and equity stories to realize higher returns.
A new generation of robotics is powering up. How can leaders capture the value at stake while ensuring successful human–machine collaboration?
Discover how market leaders—Walmart, Builders FirstSource, Progressive, and JPMorgan Chase—achieved exceptional growth from 2019 to 2024, outperforming peers by an average of five percentage points in revenue and seven points in profitability. In this episode, Simon Jones, David
Economic relations between Poland and the United States have entered a new phase. Over the past three decades, cooperation has expanded beyond trade to encompass investment, technology, infrastructure, energy, and defense. A new report by McKinsey and the American Chamber of Comm
As AI costs spiral, CIOs need to manage enterprise AI demand to optimize for outcomes, not just cost.
CEO Nick Thompson ran marathons at the same pace for a decade—until the right coach, mindset, and routine helped him break through. Here’s what he learned about life and leadership from getting faster against the odds.
ArcelorMittal Brazil partnered with McKinsey to redesign its sales journey. A gen AI–powered tool removed the friction of everyday selling, freeing salespeople to focus on what mattered most: creating value for customers.
AI adoption in Australian for-purpose organisations is growing, but without a considered approach, AI can add pressure and prioritise output over outcomes. How can leaders prepare their teams for more effective AI journeys?
Pricing is a critical value creation lever for distributors to respond to market challenges. Here are four capabilities critical to unlocking pricing’s power.
Many founder-led companies freeze at the $1 billion to $10 billion valuation stage. Those that scale reinvent their business, people—and themselves—at five key inflection points.
This year’s tournament offers a window into consumers’ changing behaviors, desire for community, and focus on identity—especially among Latino fans. Are business leaders paying attention?
Envisioning the deal’s full potential and sequencing integration initiatives makes the most of the current wave of oil and gas mergers and combinations.
The Egyptian electronics retailer partnered with McKinsey to reinvent customer commerce through AI-powered pricing, fulfillment, and fintech—unlocking rapid growth and new digital revenue streams.
AI pilots are everywhere, but value is not. Growth leaders rewire commercial impact journeys with agentic AI, enabling sellers to deepen customer relations and create real change.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping every business, but the hardest challenge is rewiring the company around it. Companies that bet on equipping good staff with extraordinary technology will have a golden opportunity, while those that treat this moment as a headcount problem wil
AI can help public sector agencies improve outcomes for residents and make every taxpayer dollar go further. But realizing that potential requires moving beyond experimentation and rewiring how services are delivered.
A new survey reveals a widening gap between airline sentiment and the rest of the value chain.
AI is poised to rewire the architecture, engineering, and construction sector. Firms that move quickly to reimagine workflows, improve data use, and automate work sites will thrive.
Software is reshaping how medtech organizations create value. A new approach to quality assurance during software-as-a-medical-device development, supported by agentic AI, can help them realize it.
Today’s COOs work with an increasingly broad set of stakeholders. Success means understanding the “why” that drives each one.
McKinsey Senior Partner Patrick Finn examines the current unique moment in healthcare and why AI could help reshape who leads healthcare’s next era.
Battery plants are essential for the energy transition. Most miss their ramp-up deadlines, however. Here’s how to fix the delivery model.
Transformations often falter due to internal dynamics that divide organizations, such as misaligned incentives, siloed efforts, and risk aversion. CEOs are uniquely positioned to address these challenges by tackling the root causes of collective-action problems and uniting their
Our recent survey reveals shifting consumer priorities, with rising expectations for affordability, sustainability, and technology and greater openness to new brands and transportation modes.
The journey from physician to CEO has no prescribed path, but those who’ve reached the top reveal how they evolved the strengths and instincts forged in clinical training for enterprise leadership.
As AI agents take on moment-to-moment decisions, leading companies are redesigning customer experience from predefined journeys to dynamic, cross-channel orchestration.
As AI reshapes entry-level work, organizations should rethink how expertise is developed by integrating knowledge management, role design, learning, and coaching into a single system.
As companies focus on spiraling AI costs, they need to make sure not to lose sight of the real prize.
McKinsey Senior Partner Brooke Weddle explores how companies are successfully scaling their AI programs.
McKinsey’s Alex Wolkomir discusses how housing leaders can win with AI by improving customer experiences, redesigning workflows, and building trust between parties in the ecosystem.
Associated Press CEO Daisy Veerasingham discusses AI, the economics of trusted content, and why preserving editorial independence matters more than preserving any particular business structure.
In Lead with Kindness, television writer and producer Melinda Hsu explores how so-called soft skills like empathy, mindfulness, and collaboration can result in better business relationships and performance.
The next wave of value from AI will flow to those leaders who redesign business models, eliminate friction, and build organizations that learn faster than the competition.
Most skills will still be needed—but how people use them will change as they work alongside intelligent machines.
Most organizations are still early in their AI journeys. A new global survey reveals how companies can progress from individual adoption to enterprise-wide value capture.
Per-token pricing has stopped being a useful measure for what enterprises actually pay for gen AI. A conversation with David Tepper, CEO of Pay-i, delves into the new economics of measurement.
On average, people are living longer than before, raising a broader conversation about how to create an ecosystem that effectively combines the delivery of care with proven ways to prevent illness.
Logistics players can focus on four pricing strategies in the AI era.
Summer in the Northern Hemisphere has gotten off to a very hot start. This has focused attention on the impacts of heat on health, infrastructure, and economic productivity—and how to best manage them. That is a good thing. While past discourse on adaptation has often focused on
The real AI advantage comes from redesigning how work is done and how decisions are made. Ultimately, success will depend on people and operating models supported by technology.
For executives, the developmental opportunity may be clear, but what does board service really entail?
The former US Treasury official shares how government can deliver in moments of crisis and how America’s public–private sector dynamic can help fuel its next era of growth.
In an era of rapid AI disruption, the winners may not be the companies that predict the future most accurately, but those that learn, reallocate resources, and adapt faster than their competitors.
Overcoming scale-related barriers and strengthening ties with other firms—both large and small—can help small businesses in Chile maximize their potential and narrow the productivity gap.
Chairman and CEO Steve Beard explains how the organization’s multiyear transformation has reshaped its purpose, structure, and culture.
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, intensifying technological competition and geopolitical risks have resurfaced a decades-old question with renewed urgency: Should the United States rebuild its industrial base, write Erik Kutcher and Shubham Singhal in Fortun
The strongest chemical company transformations in Europe perform a difficult balancing act: improving performance while radically reshaping portfolios, operations, and capital allocation.
Healthcare is in a productivity crisis that more hiring and more technology alone will not solve. The next era of care depends on making automation work through human–AI workflows.
Miro cofounder and CEO Andrey Khusid reflects on the company’s evolution from a digital whiteboard to an AI-powered workflow platform—and how AI is reshaping competitive advantage in software.
New McKinsey research explains why organizations that repeatedly build new ventures outperform those that approach innovation as a one-off effort.
We asked McKinsey Global Publishing and Marketing colleagues to share what’s on their bookshelves this year—here’s what they said.
McKinsey Global Publishing’s annual reading list is back, featuring compelling recommendations from a diverse group of leaders across the world. Our contributors have nearly 100 books for you to choose from.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping film and TV production from script to screen—but the biggest disruptions may not be the ones anyone is predicting.
Closing the women’s health gap in the United Kingdom could result in ten more healthy days of life per year for every woman—and potentially boost the country’s economy by £36 billion annually by 2040.
In striving for business growth while creating value for society, Suphachai Chearavanont has based his leadership strategy on looking beyond short-term gains to sustainable social impact and scale.
Betsy Nabel, a leader and advocate for women in healthcare, reflects on the moves she’s made in her career to stay true to herself while creating lasting impact for medical students and patients.
What if the antidote to loneliness isn’t technology but ritual? Traveling across 16 countries, author Bruce Feiler uncovered a quiet global movement helping people reconnect in an age of digital overload.
Booking.com’s senior vice president of fintech describes how the travel-booking company has become the global platform of choice by managing complexity and easing customers’ pain points.
Data center capital expenditures are surging as AI workloads grow, yet competitiveness increasingly depends on securing advanced accelerators, reliable electricity, and fast project delivery.
Innovation after innovation is advancing the biopharmaceutical industry, enabling better treatment of complex diseases. The industry has historically made its home in Europe and the United States, but that’s changing.
Manufacturing polyethylene is a highly competitive business. Success depends greatly on access to feedstocks, yet investment doesn’t always follow economics.
As geopolitics shift, more countries are wooing semiconductor manufacturers to enhance resilience. At the same time, demand for advanced semiconductors continues to grow.
Solar photovoltaic projects with battery energy storage systems are moving beyond low-cost generation by transforming intermittent output into more reliable, higher-value electricity.
Demand for batteries is surging as electric vehicles and storage grow, but competitiveness depends on securing materials, ramping up gigafactories, and building the local ecosystems needed to compete.
The continued rise of monoclonal antibody therapies and demographic changes are powering growth in the pharmaceuticals industry.
Global steel investment is flat, but DRI-EAF production is gaining share in advanced economies.
Competitiveness has moved to the top of the global agenda, and investment is its indicator and its outcome. In the context of dramatically diverging investment patterns globally, companies and regions can pull seven levers to level up.
Investing in children’s financial futures can narrow disparities and expand opportunity. Different scenarios for the new 530A accounts, also known as Trump Accounts, highlight the factors that can shape its impact.
Improvements in batteries and recharging, not to mention geopolitics, have increased consumer appetites for electric vehicles. Automakers are flocking to China for lessons in how to develop an EV platform.
The explosion of AI data centers and the continued electrification of automobiles and other products have greatly increased demand for electricity, sparking renewed interest in producing nuclear power.
Australia’s energy transition has entered a new phase. Moving beyond “should we?” the question is now how to deliver an affordable, reliable, secure, and competitive energy system.
In early June, executives were more downbeat on the economy than they have been in years and reported divided expectations for the coming months. Energy prices loomed large, and companies have been making defensive changes in response.
An AI-powered R&D model built on connected decision loops—replacing the current sequential, fragmented workflow—can reduce uncertainty, compress timelines, and accelerate medicines to market.
It’s normal for companies to encounter unique issues throughout their technology and AI transformation journey. The key is being prepared to adapt.
New findings show misses matter only when they signal a weaker outlook. Plus, guidance on disclosures, earnings calls, and long-term communication.
Critical minerals underpin everything from AI to low-carbon energy, and African mining sits at the epicenter. Three key moves can help unlock the continent’s natural minerals advantage.
As he steps down as chair of McKinsey Global Institute, Sven considers the current AI moment, where the next big ideas are coming from, and how institutions will harness knowledge in the future.
Private banks face a critical decision point: Strengthen their business focus and monetization discipline, or risk declining profits.
How financial institutions can turn mandatory reporting of financed emissions into a growth opportunity.
Between the first 90 days and the last, here’s how leaders can successfully manage people, products, processes, and themselves.
The half-life of the initial deal thesis is shrinking. Private equity firms are shifting toward a more adaptive, execution-led model that reshapes value creation during ownership.
AI’s next breakthrough may not be a smarter model but a cheaper token.
Survey results reveal a widening gap between leaders’ assessment of their risk exposure and responsiveness. Five actions can help leaders prepare for a range of outcomes—not just the worst case.
Even before the Middle East conflict began, geopolitics surged as the foremost investor concern. AI disruption and capital allocation discipline are also top of mind.
As the first outside leader of the family-founded business, Marcel Cobuz has made some tough decisions about what to keep and what to change. His formula seems to be working.
The next frontier of AI is physical. Embodied intelligence, in the form of robots, could change how we live and work by 2040.
By transforming its contact center with agentic AI, the leading Dutch telecom company is strengthening quality, improving efficiency, and building AI capabilities for long-term competitiveness.
From individual productivity hacks to full workflow and role reinvention—three McKinsey experts explain how AI is changing the creation of software and what separates the companies capturing value.
Automating software’s deployment, production, and monitoring systems has been challenging. Resolve AI’s CEO explains how AI could improve reliability, pace, and workload.
Survey results point to changing consumer preferences that are disrupting and transforming the industry in Europe—and highlight the need for a new set of strategic imperatives.
Private equity–backed companies that broadly embrace AI have median revenue multiples more than twice those of companies focused solely on productivity initiatives.
As companies push their AI pilots to scale, data is emerging as a constraint. Leaders are prioritizing data readiness, connecting structured and unstructured data into a governed, reusable foundation.
AI is advancing too quickly to remain a side initiative for businesses. Central European companies can get ahead by redesigning business domains—and the organization—around AI.
The consumer is changing fast. Four trends—the tech-driven path to purchase, the health revolution, the experience economy, and the resourceful consumer—will redefine the sector. Will brands keep up?
CEOs who act nimbly and know where to place their bets can gain a competitive edge amid a shifting geopolitical landscape.
Marketers are using AI, but surface-level enthusiasm is masking the anxiety, indecision, and operating-model gaps holding back meaningful change.
Capabilities built around insights, creativity, personalization, agentic commerce, and orchestration form the five core pillars of the future of marketing.