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Apr 02, 2026
Agentic AI scales on strong data. To capture value, tech leaders can agentify high-impact workflows, modernize data architectures, enforce data quality, and evolve operating models.
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Apr 02, 2026
The race to rewire operations is on—and in 2026, companies that redesign how work gets done end to end will define the next wave of competitive advantage.
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Apr 01, 2026
If gen AI has a killer application, it's software development—one of the most profound shifts in the history of programming.
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Apr 01, 2026
Leaders recognize gen AI's potential to add value and reduce costs, yet the technology has not scaled as fast as anticipated. With focused efforts, operators could unlock substantial benefits.
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Apr 01, 2026
James Zou, an associate professor of machine learning at Stanford University, discusses the role of AI scientists in biotech, pharmaceutical discovery, immunology, and more.
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Apr 01, 2026
The war-torn country will need investments of historic proportions to return to economic health. Early action by Ukrainian and international stakeholders will help reduce risk for private investors.
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Apr 01, 2026
Executives leading and working on tech and AI transformations should be familiar with these terms.
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Apr 01, 2026
Agentic AI is all about doing things—just like operations. McKinsey partner Michael Chang explains its potential, why waiting to implement could be risky, and the keys to realizing impact.
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Mar 31, 2026
Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of creating corporate ventures. Here is a strategic playbook for business leaders ready to seize a defining growth opportunity.
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Mar 31, 2026
As tailwinds fade and competition intensifies, African banks can convert today's momentum into durable growth for the industry.
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Mar 31, 2026
In today's environment, adaptation is essential for the North American automotive industry to maintain resilience and strengthen competitive economics.
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Mar 30, 2026
As the AI boom fuels a surge in data center buildouts, semiconductor companies must make bold strategic moves—not incremental adjustments—to capture the next wave of value.
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Mar 30, 2026
Our latest report in conjunction with Worldpanel by Numerator finds a new kind of consumer emerging across the region—and opportunities for companies willing to take bold steps.
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Mar 30, 2026
CIOs have long struggled to balance enterprise tech budgets—and big investments in AI are compounding the problem. Our research shows how they can reallocate expenditures to generate maximum growth.
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Mar 30, 2026
Optimism ticked up in early 2026, even as consumers held steady on where and how they spend. Here's the latest research from our ConsumerWise team.
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Mar 30, 2026
A career that crossed borders and industries prepared "TG" Limcaoco for leading BPI. The CEO reflects on navigating disruption while staying anchored in trust, purpose, and people.
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Mar 27, 2026
Executives' optimism about economic conditions globally and at home faded as geopolitical tensions escalated, and concern shifted toward geopolitical instability and energy prices.
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Mar 27, 2026
As AI and its uses advance, the scope of engineering simulation is changing, redesigning the way engineering is done and moving the center of value creation.
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Mar 27, 2026
Capital is pouring into data center development, but there are real constraints on growth. Incumbents can't meet demand for power and thermal equipment, creating room for new codesign entrants.
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Mar 26, 2026
In the arenas, investment cycles are accelerating, value pools are shifting, and a new type of competitor is scaling across industries.
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Mar 26, 2026
A competitive US commercial shipbuilding market could help support economic and national security interests, and a combination of bold, strategic actions could make it a reality. Here's how.
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Mar 26, 2026
Geopolitical conflict is adding to global economic uncertainty as energy prices rise. Across markets, consumer affordability remains the dominant pressure point.
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Mar 26, 2026
A rapidly evolving industry means CIBs must ramp up productivity, embrace AI, and sharpen their competitive edge to better position themselves for long-term success.
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Mar 25, 2026
JA Worldwide and McKinsey are using responsible generative AI to scale personalized communication coaching for students around the world.
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Mar 25, 2026
Authenticity is supposed to be an ideal to strive for in the workplace. But does it actually help us thrive?
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Mar 24, 2026
The rise of agentic AI is exposing enterprises to new cybersecurity risks, creating extensive opportunities for providers that can make the world of autonomous systems safer.
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Mar 24, 2026
Aircraft maintenance organizations can address the struggle for talent by boosting their own technicians' productivity.
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Mar 23, 2026
Foreign direct investment is increasingly being channeled into future-shaping industries, reconfiguring trade networks.
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Mar 23, 2026
Private capital's role in meeting the world's growing need for infrastructure continues to grow, with record fundraising and deployment in 2025.
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Mar 23, 2026
The Dominican Republic, in partnership with McKinsey, finds that protecting critical ecosystems could generate up to $5 billion in value.
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Mar 20, 2026
What distinguishes those who achieve sustained excellence in the CEO job? In-depth conversations with leaders reveal five common principles they rely on to guide their actions.
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Mar 19, 2026
The chemical industry today is contending with many difficulties, including hampered growth with new and existing customers. Gen AI could make the difference.
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Mar 19, 2026
Private equity leaders face relentless pressure to deliver fast results. New research shows how the best of them respond—and what others can learn from their discipline.
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Mar 19, 2026
Tariff splashes, AI waves, and the ripples reshaping global trade.
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Mar 19, 2026
Investors in European infrastructure continue to broaden their exposure and deploy high levels of dry powder. The future of the sector promises to be interesting in a competitive investor environment.
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Mar 18, 2026
Our latest obituaries also include a designer who redefined red-carpet glamour, a versatile block trader, and a surgeon whose life-saving invention transformed modern medicine.
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Mar 18, 2026
Building on its 150-year history of leadership investment, Campbell's partnered with McKinsey to future-ready its next generation of talent.
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Mar 18, 2026
As global competition increases for North American automotive companies, solidifying partnerships and properly managing risk will be essential for OEMs.
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Mar 18, 2026
Over ten years, Körber transformed from a machinery-only company to one that offers a complete technology stack. Chairman Stephan Seifert details how it pivoted to achieve almost 100 percent growth.
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Mar 17, 2026
Mikell Taylor, director of robotics strategy at General Motors, discusses next-generation robots and dispels some common myths.
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Mar 17, 2026
Despite predictions of "peak shale," a new level of scale and accelerated innovation, underpinned by 27 emerging technologies and new oilfield practices, could unlock the next era for shale.
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Mar 17, 2026
Thorough and early preparations for asset sales are vital for private equity firms to generate timely returns in a challenging market.
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Mar 16, 2026
CEOs know that courage is crucial to guiding organizations through uncertainty. Every conversation is an opportunity for clarity.
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Mar 16, 2026
In an era of global volatility, overcapacity, margin pressure, and trade fragmentation, chemical companies could pursue profitable growth through sharper choices around portfolios, capabilities, capital allocation, and execution.
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Mar 13, 2026
No longer just operators, today's COOs sit at the intersection of strategy, execution, and partnership with the CEO.
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Mar 13, 2026
To make IT a strategic partner in value creation, start by transforming tech team culture.
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Mar 12, 2026
After several decades of underinvestment in military spending, NATO member states can attract and retain top defense talent through five actions.
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Mar 12, 2026
Transforming small manufacturing sites across a production network can add up to major financial impact—if leaders apply a different approach to building skills at scale.
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Mar 12, 2026
Multinational companies that systematically gather geopolitical intelligence from a range of sources and integrate it into decision-making gain an edge in setting strategy and mitigating risk.
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Mar 12, 2026
Multinational companies that build ecosystems of geopolitical insights and integrate them into decision-making gain an advantage in setting strategy and mitigating risk.
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Mar 12, 2026
Tech leaders face a choice in modernizing enterprise IT architecture: incremental change or full-scale transformation. Here are the benefits and pitfalls of each path.
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Mar 12, 2026
UK infrastructure projects have a history of delivering late and over budget. Here are four immediate changes for operators and policymakers to buck that trend, as investment and ambition escalate.
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Mar 11, 2026
The private alternatives market is increasingly important to India's economic growth. Our survey finds limited partners are bullish on the country, yet more can be done to grow investor momentum.
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Mar 11, 2026
The former US commerce secretary discusses the impact of government bureaucracy on the country's ability to compete globally and the need to manage the AI transition.
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Mar 11, 2026
Many organizations are struggling to scale gen AI and agentic AI. But adoption challenges are not technical—they are experiential. Here's how to design AI tools that people will embrace.
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Mar 11, 2026
This year marks a defining milestone for the United States: 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Anniversaries invite celebration—but also reflection. For much of its history, the United States has been the world's most competitive major economy. The deeper question, my colleagues and I explored in a new McKinsey Global Institute report, At 250, Sustaining America's Competitive Edge, is whether it can remain competitive in the future in a far more complex and contested world, writes Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.
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Mar 11, 2026
AI is changing the workplace and placing new demands on leaders. Meditation can help them maintain perspective and manage the disruption.
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Mar 11, 2026
The new NSIB Report Card reveals where the United States is advancing, where it is falling behind, and what it will take to achieve systemic transformation in national security innovation.
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Mar 10, 2026
Levi Strauss & Company's chief financial and growth officer, Harmit Singh, discusses growth, transformation, and the "Magic of the And."
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Mar 10, 2026
Automated kitchens, AI-powered hyperpersonalization, and "unbundled" formats are accelerating restaurant reinvention.
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Mar 10, 2026
Often ignored, manufacturing support functions offer significant value creation potential—but concrete improvement actions and transformation approaches are needed to realize it.
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Mar 10, 2026
New McKinsey Global Institute research finds that the business case for climate adaptation is compelling: it's a strong buy. Every dollar spent today on proven measures like air conditioning, irrigation and sea dikes avoids US$3 in damages on average. At 2°C of warming, that payoff jumps to seven to one, write Mekala Krishnan, Annabel Farr, and Kanmani Chockalingham in Sustainability Magazine.
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Mar 10, 2026
Industrial companies are struggling to create major energy saving ideas, just as high prices are pressuring profitability. A deeper dive can find hidden drivers that could transform energy consumption.
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Mar 10, 2026
Real estate moved from stabilization to selective acceleration in 2025—but the most profound changes have only just begun.
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Mar 09, 2026
Consumers' economic outlook and spending plans remain mixed—but how they shop is starting to shift. Here's the latest research from our ConsumerWise team.
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Mar 09, 2026
America's history of reinvention holds compelling lessons as the nation confronts a future of immense if uncertain opportunity.
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Mar 09, 2026
With technology as a driver of change and philanthropy as an accelerator, this is a pivotal moment for Latin America and the Caribbean to reimagine how education is delivered, accessed, and scaled.
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Mar 09, 2026
With technology as a driver of change and philanthropy as an accelerator, this is a pivotal moment for Latin America and the Caribbean to reimagine how education is delivered, accessed, and scaled.
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Mar 06, 2026
Three McKinsey experts explain what sovereign AI really means—and why control over the AI stack is becoming a strategic priority for countries and companies alike.
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Mar 06, 2026
The question is less about whether AI will change how users discover classifieds but rather how incumbent providers can shape that change or risk leaving it and its associated value to new entrants.
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Mar 05, 2026
For decades, Asia-Pacific has focused on spurring growth, building its cities, expanding industry and connecting markets. Now an equally important task is emerging: protecting what has been built, and the people who live and work within it. The region has an opportunity to embed adaptation early as it continues to invest in urbanization, transportation, energy systems and industrial upgrading, write Gautam Kumra and Mekala Krishnan in Bloomberg.
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Mar 05, 2026
The history of capitalism is longer and more global than people may realize. Historian Sven Beckert explains how its evolution has shaped our world today.
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Mar 05, 2026
Leaders across industries are learning about sustaining impact when volatility is the norm.
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Mar 05, 2026
Power demand growth, bottlenecks in equipment supply, labor shortages, and changing trade policies: Amid these shifts, where are the opportunities for OEMs across the electrification supply chain?
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Mar 05, 2026
Galen Shaffer, principal at Eos Ventures, says regulation and fragmentation make the insurance industry fertile ground for innovation and investment.
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Mar 05, 2026
Chairman of Mahindra Group, Anand Mahindra, discusses how he transformed his family's small steel trading company into a leading global, multibusiness group headquartered in India.
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Mar 05, 2026
Job creation numbers from economic development plans are often nominal commitments. Governments that make a concentrated effort
to back their numbers can meet and maximize job creation goals.
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Mar 05, 2026
The quality of consumer attention that gaming captures is exceptional. Growth in the next era will depend on publishers, platforms, and partners rethinking how to maximize the value of that attention.
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Mar 05, 2026
Agentic AI is here—and that means AI systems are starting to make decisions and take action autonomously. To deliver on AI's value, leaders need to reckon with new risks.
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Mar 05, 2026
The rise of AI could be the turning point that finally unlocks women's full participation in the tech sector if addressed early—or reduces their share even further.
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Mar 04, 2026
The blockchain-based open infrastructure provider and stablecoin issuer seeks to create a new internet financial system.
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Mar 04, 2026
Six business models piloted in Asia offer lessons for global leaders in any market—and just might be the key to the next wave of sustainable growth.
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Mar 04, 2026
Chief Operations Officer Vikram Agarwal explains how AI is helping the food and beverage company anticipate demand, build capacity, and improve performance—putting operations "at the center of growth."
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Mar 04, 2026
To create value from AI agents and humans working together, focus on redesigning entire domains, not just launching a few use cases. Here's where to start.
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Mar 04, 2026
A through-cycle mindset and a focus on programmatic dealmaking can help paper and packaging companies withstand cyclical disruption in the industry and increase returns.
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Mar 04, 2026
As the electric grid grows more complex, battery energy storage systems are proliferating. Here's how developers can succeed in a rapidly evolving market.
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Mar 04, 2026
Saronic Technologies' autonomous surface vessels are ushering in a new era for maritime in the United States. Cofounder and CEO Dino Mavrookas discusses the company's mission and approach.
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Mar 03, 2026
Changes in global trade and the growth of AI are shifting both commodity-trading structures and organizational models. Staying competitive in these new markets requires new strategies.
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Mar 03, 2026
Eric Glyman, CEO of Ramp, explains how a relentless focus on saving customers time and money helped build one of the fastest-growing fintech platforms.
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Mar 03, 2026
As climate hazards intensify, adaptation will increasingly influence which economies thrive and which struggle. Human societies around the world have long found ingenious ways to cope with extreme weather. China is no exception, write Mekala Krishnan, Kanmani Chockalingam, and Annabel Farr in China Daily.
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Mar 03, 2026
Nishaminy Kasbekar, vice president and chief pharmacy officer for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, on the evolution—and potential—of pharmacy's role.
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Mar 03, 2026
What he's learned about leading with a steady hand and staying adaptable for the next "unique moment."
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Mar 03, 2026
Adopting the right technologies could enable new solutions to long-standing challenges faced by road operators. Which road-related tech advances matter most?
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Mar 03, 2026
Sovereign AI is achievable only through an ecosystem effort that connects energy, compute, data, models, platforms, and applications across multiple actors.
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Mar 03, 2026
The creators of the "natural owner" concept discuss its origins and how it can be used for both offense and defense today.
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Mar 02, 2026
Consumers' spending plans aligned with seasonal patterns—but AI's growing prominence signals a shift in shopping behaviors. Here's the latest research from our ConsumerWise team.
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Mar 02, 2026
A new survey shows that European consumers are using AI to shape what they buy, but not how they buy—at least not yet.
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Mar 02, 2026
Commerce media is maturing fast. In a buyer-led market, commerce media networks that deliver omnichannel activation, trusted measurement, and embedded AI will stand out.
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Feb 27, 2026
The automatic doors at Brown's ShopRite on Fox Street slide open before sunrise. The aisles are stocked with the usual staples—bread, milk, eggs. But just inside the entrance sits something unexpected: a Healthy Together Hub, marked by a small table, blood pressure cuff, glucose monitor, and a healthcare worker offering a warm hello.
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