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Mar 18, 2024
Two AI-enabled approaches are changing the way companies identify operational improvement opportunities. Individually powerful, together they can be transformative.
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Mar 18, 2024
A new survey of the Latin American fraud landscape reveals that most fraud goes unnoticed as companies struggle to keep up with the dynamics of the fraud landscape.
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Mar 18, 2024
Luxury hotels know that the secret to top-tier customer experience is a culture of excellence.
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Mar 18, 2024
The number of employees who use generative AI is expected to soar, freeing many to focus on higher-level cognitive work. Can organizations use this moment to make jobs more people centric?
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Mar 15, 2024
Black and Latino US residents experience different levels of prosperity and parity depending on where they live. Our interactive map explores this variation across all US counties.
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Mar 15, 2024
In the fourth quarter 2023, the economies of Southeast Asia mostly showed strong resilience to counter the challenging external environment and continue its growth trajectory.
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Mar 15, 2024
US public sector agencies offer valuable lessons on how public health agencies can approach data governance in a holistic way.
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Mar 15, 2024
Three McKinsey senior partners—and, now, international best-selling authors—reflect on the far-reaching impact of their book, CEO Excellence, two years after its release.
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Mar 14, 2024
Biopharmaceutical companies that make bold moves to address life cycle compression, including reshaping portfolios and operations for agility and decisiveness, can capture value from innovation.
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Mar 14, 2024
Outperforming family-owned businesses use a combination of value-creating mindsets and actions. Private equity firms looking to engage should understand them.
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Mar 14, 2024
Economic inclusion is when people not only have their basic subsistence needs met but also are productive, fulfilled, and fully empowered to make choices about their lives.
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Mar 13, 2024
Better aligning employment with modifiable drivers of health could unlock years of higher-quality life and create trillions of dollars of economic value.
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Mar 13, 2024
Generative AI poses both risks and opportunities. Here's a road map to mitigate the former while moving to capture the latter from day one.
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Mar 13, 2024
Board member at Coinbase and Pinterest, Gokul Rajaram reveals how companies can use product thinking to better understand customers and innovate quicker.
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Mar 13, 2024
The Medicare Advantage program is undergoing its biggest shifts in more than two decades. Payers can take steps now to mount a strategic, agile response as the changes unfold.
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Mar 12, 2024
It was another year of big changes for the mobility sector as regulation, investment patterns, consumer preferences, and technology continued to evolve.
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Mar 12, 2024
Successful B2B companies use various tactics to get ahead in sales—here's how three players did it.
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Mar 12, 2024
The heightened turbulence of the past few years, including the pandemic and geopolitical fracturing at a time of sweeping technological change, gives the world a distinctly uncertain feel. Given all this change, we may well be transitioning to a new era with different economic and political dynamics, writes Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.
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Mar 12, 2024
Gen Z consumers are picking up the phone, boomers are using digital chat, and AI technologies are reshaping the contact center. For customer care leaders, 2024 could be a transformative year.
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Mar 12, 2024
Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you're looking for a quick win.
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Mar 11, 2024
Transactions can play a significant role in large-scale transformation, presenting a time of intensified focus on change and a heightened sense of ownership and accountability—the building blocks of transformation.
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Mar 11, 2024
From innovations in biopharmaceuticals to the globalization of consumer brands, these five trends will shape business in China in the year ahead.
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Mar 11, 2024
American Red Cross chief innovation officer Sajit Joseph discusses the opportunity in bringing innovation, AI, and digital transformation to the work of disaster response and blood banking.
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Mar 11, 2024
The journey to cloud is complex, demanding leadership, careful planning, and an agile approach to the unexpected.
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Mar 11, 2024
As financial institutions actively adopt emerging technologies, they should act now to future-proof themselves against growing cyber risks.
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Mar 08, 2024
For Barbara Karuth-Zelle, Allianz's COO, the human touch is a key ingredient in everything from responsible use of generative AI to successful digital transformations.
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Mar 08, 2024
Insurance is not about avoiding risks, but about taking the right risks and keeping them under control, AIA Group's chief risk officer says.
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Mar 08, 2024
A future expected to be volatile means that leaders need to prepare their organizations to expect the unexpected, the Liberty Mutual Insurance executive says.
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Mar 07, 2024
Improving on- and off-screen representation of Latinos, their stories, and their culture could generate billions of dollars in new revenue for the industry, according to new McKinsey research.
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Mar 07, 2024
The most effective university presidents use the first six to 12 months of their tenure to renew and reinvigorate the institution. Six actions could set them up for success.
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Mar 07, 2024
CEOs acknowledge the expertise and importance of chief marketing officers and their role in helping the company grow, yet there's still a strategic disconnect in the C-suite. Here's how to close the gap.
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Mar 07, 2024
The CEO of Hivemind Technologies explains what steps matter in speeding software development for transformations.
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Mar 07, 2024
Railway companies could use opportunities created by rapidly evolving artificial intelligence technologies as a catalyst to improve the way they plan and deliver operations.
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Mar 07, 2024
The Philippine economy was more resilient than expected in 2023—current projections indicate that it could again achieve healthy growth in 2024.
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Mar 07, 2024
The Philippine economy was more resilient than expected in 2023—current projections indicate that it could again achieve healthy growth in 2024.
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Mar 06, 2024
Tokenization is the process of creating a digital representation of a real thing. Tokenization can be used to protect sensitive data or to efficiently process large amounts of data.
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Mar 06, 2024
Tired of running into paywalls, walled-off spaces and the broken promise of an open internet? Hunch cofounder Chris Dixon shares why a return to the decentralized internet is key to protecting businesses and consumers.
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Mar 06, 2024
Generative AI was a core topic at the annual connectivity conference—but so were 5G APIs, talent, and the industrial internet.
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Mar 05, 2024
Generative AI tools can shorten physical product design life cycles significantly and spark innovation, but the knowledge and discretion of design experts are necessary to mitigate potential pitfalls.
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Mar 05, 2024
Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you're looking for a quick win.
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Mar 04, 2024
Board experts explain how directors can meet the demands of growing agendas.
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Mar 04, 2024
The Generative AI revolution will disrupt America's biggest labor market, but its impact may not be what you expect.
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Mar 04, 2024
The generative AI payoff may only come when companies do deeper organizational surgery on their business.
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Mar 04, 2024
To grow B2B revenues, telcos have increasingly focused on noncore services like cloud, IT, and security. But core connectivity remains the largest opportunity for B2B growth.
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Mar 01, 2024
Clinician and business executive Cheryl Pegus shares her bold vision for healthcare and the role businesses can play in ensuring everyone has access to high-quality healthcare.
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Mar 01, 2024
Why do women hold only 28 percent of C-suite positions? A former PepsiCo COO shares how you can put your best foot forward to reverse the trend.
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Mar 01, 2024
A new wave of software investing is on the horizon as private equity looks to create value through software portfolio companies.
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Mar 01, 2024
In the next five years, generative AI could fundamentally change financial institutions' risk management by automating, accelerating, and enhancing everything from compliance to climate risk control.
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Feb 29, 2024
Will AI be to the Fourth Industrial Revolution what steam was to the first? Our weekly digest explores that topic and more.
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Feb 29, 2024
M&A is a powerful means to create value in the chemical industry; getting it right requires tailoring execution to the sector.
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Feb 29, 2024
Buffeted by economic trends, consumer goods companies have diversified their M&A strategies, with winners balancing growth and margin expansion. Success ahead requires integration tailored to each deal's thesis.
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Feb 29, 2024
Companies can reap substantial benefits from programmatic, sustainability-linked M&A if they follow a compelling deal rationale and a tailored execution approach.
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Feb 29, 2024
Multinationals continue to look for opportunities in the region's fast-growing countries with less geopolitical risk.
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Feb 29, 2024
The huge impact of culture on M&A performance means that culture should be factored into integration planning from the start. We recommend focusing on five cultural attributes.
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Feb 29, 2024
After the 2023 spike in large deals and bank failures, the outlook for financial services M&A appears bright and active—particularly for acquirers with the skills to execute complex deals.
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Feb 29, 2024
Over the past two years, delays have plagued 30 percent of major acquisitions. To avoid destroying value, momentum, and morale, dealmakers need a plan that anticipates likely delays and prepares for contingencies.
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Feb 29, 2024
Having peaked in 2021 and plummeted as the pandemic ended, deal value revived in 2023, with pharma companies pursuing growth and medtech companies chasing profitability. These trends promise to continue in 2024.
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Feb 29, 2024
After several tumultuous years for M&A, powerful forces are transforming the industry and shaping five new investment priorities for 2024 and beyond. Capitalizing on those priorities requires action, now.
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Feb 29, 2024
With technology, media, and telecommunication companies poised for a potential resurgence in M&A, players seeking growth need precise, focused M&A strategies that are aligned with their corporate goals.
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Feb 29, 2024
With technology, media, and telecommunication companies poised for a potential resurgence in M&A, players seeking growth need precise, focused M&A strategies that are aligned with their corporate goals.
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Feb 29, 2024
Several trends are creating a new imperative for strong portfolio management of businesses. Companies need six capabilities to build and manage a winning portfolio, using M&A strategically.
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Feb 28, 2024
Longer-term strategies in managing European football clubs' first teams can create an annual competitive advantage of between €100 million and €200 million.
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Feb 28, 2024
Banks can consider seven steps to help them retain and strengthen deposits as interest rates stay elevated and corporate clients seek better deals.
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Feb 28, 2024
Hybrid work. Talent shortages. Polarizing politics. Building a culture is tougher than ever. Recent research reveals the difference empathy can make—as well as how to develop it in your workplace.
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Feb 28, 2024
Next-generation technology could spark innovation, attract investment, grow adoption, and revitalize telecommunications. But to fully benefit from 6G, the industry must overcome legacy challenges.
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Feb 28, 2024
Public health organizations can responsibly use generative AI to improve service delivery, bolster outbreak preparedness, accelerate R&D, and enhance health outcomes for communities.
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Feb 28, 2024
Recent disruptions in global supply chains have exposed national vulnerabilities—adopting an end-to-end approach to reinforce supply chain resilience can be vital to national security.
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Feb 28, 2024
The build-out of renewables could lead to a variable supply of electricity—any oversupply could be used to accelerate the energy transition. Unlocking this potential requires action from all involved.
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Feb 28, 2024
Tom Middendorp, chair of the International Military Council on Climate and Security, discusses the link between climate change and security and the important role that the defense sector can play.
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Feb 28, 2024
European countries are increasing defense spending in response to regional geopolitical shifts. Critical considerations could help them address constraints, long-term resilience, and collaboration.
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Feb 27, 2024
Not all tech trends are created equal. Keeping a clear eye on what matters can help steer to better decisions.
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Feb 27, 2024
Experts from across the healthcare ecosystem discuss insights, actions, and imperatives for better representation in clinical trials.
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Feb 27, 2024
Global cooperation is key to better human lives. Our new barometer, developed with the World Economic Forum, can help leaders track trends, monitor critical outcomes, and act to increase cooperation.
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Feb 27, 2024
The physical shopping experience matters more than ever, says Value Retail founder Scott Malkin, whose company owns some of the world's best-performing luxury shopping destinations.
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Feb 27, 2024
The automotive ecosystem will become more competitive. Micromarket insights that allow automotive players in Europe to sharpen and tailor their strategies can be a competitive advantage.
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Feb 27, 2024
Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you're looking for a quick win.
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Feb 26, 2024
Integrating AI into Canadian healthcare could help simplify administrative work; improve system management, care quality, and patient and staff experience; and boost affordability via lower spending.
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Feb 26, 2024
Welcome to this edition of Voices on Infrastructure by the Global Infrastructure Initiative (GII).
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Feb 26, 2024
The CEO of a cutting-edge fintech explain how his start-up offers investment services once reserved for the ultrawealthy to successful professionals.
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Feb 26, 2024
Our latest Pulse survey of tech and telecommunications B2B decision makers reveals a generally optimistic investment outlook. But shifting market dynamics could turn different groups of vendors into new winners or losers.
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Feb 26, 2024
The energy transition continues apace. Meeting increasingly bold climate targets requires reducing capital expenditures while accelerating project timelines.
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Feb 23, 2024
Are you making the right things effortless and the wrong things hard? To remove friction in your organization, you may want to start thinking like a friction fixer.
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Feb 23, 2024
Rising energy costs, growing consumption, and the need to meet decarbonization goals are pressuring telcos to lower costs and to use electricity more efficiently.
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Feb 23, 2024
Four tactics can improve telecom companies' returns on fiber rollouts, helping to connect more of the millions of people who remain without high-speed access.
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Feb 23, 2024
With advances in AI, telecom operators can better understand individual customers' network experience, enabling ROI-maximizing capital allocation, higher reliability, and better commercial outcomes.
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Feb 22, 2024
Sophisticated investors are more likely to afford a company more time to let its strategy play out, even during volatility. But first, they need a clear equity story.
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Feb 22, 2024
Nontraditional sources of innovation are transforming the defense sector with powerful capabilities—but they must overcome obstacles on the path to scalable success.
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Feb 22, 2024
This collection presents McKinsey's top insights on gen AI, providing a detailed examination of the significant opportunities and challenges it offers for leaders looking to steer their organizations into the future.
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Feb 22, 2024
The chief of staff role sits at the intersection of leadership and support. It also comes with enormous responsibility, opportunity, and influence. Here's how to navigate it.
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Feb 21, 2024
The new technology offers the sector a real opportunity to reverse its stagnant fortunes. But seizing it will require embracing innovation and agility to an unprecedented degree.
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Feb 21, 2024
The global economy was more resilient than anticipated in 2023, but there were patchy bright spots; 2024 brings further ambiguity.
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Feb 21, 2024
A survey of more than 4,200 people paints a picture of typical healthcare consumers in Latin America, including their tendency to defer care and their desire for more convenient settings of care.
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Feb 21, 2024
States could have much to gain from using generative AI tools in their operations. A low-risk strategy may be to test some applications while preparing a longer-term implementation plan.
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Feb 21, 2024
AI has brought the Fourth Industrial Revolution to an inflection point, and manufacturers must choose a path forward: innovate, accelerate, or follow fast.
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Feb 21, 2024
Network APIs offer telcos a chance to finally generate sizable returns on their massive 5G investments, but doing so will require changing some of their traditional ways of doing business.
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Feb 20, 2024
New business building is becoming a top priority for CEOs, often in response to changing consumer demands. How can companies navigate the complexities to achieve scale?
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Feb 20, 2024
Will 2024 launch a bright new era for M&A? Anticipating what could be an inflection point, many dealmakers are preparing for a surge—and new market requirements—in the year ahead.
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Feb 20, 2024
Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you're looking for a quick win.
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Feb 20, 2024
The much-coveted CEO role is the pinnacle for many talented senior executives. Developing certain attributes can help them get there—and leave a legacy.
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Feb 20, 2024
A new, tech-enabled operating model is critical if the engineering sector is to deliver the infrastructure needed for everything from climate commitments and the energy transition, to revamped cities.
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