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Jan 24, 2025
Three McKinsey senior partners identify why women fall behind at work and how they can navigate work at every life and career stage, from entry level to motherhood to the C-suite.
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Jan 24, 2025
Transformations can take a long time to show results, but if organizations optimize their working capital early on, they can demonstrate that change at pace is possible.
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Jan 24, 2025
With more efficient inventory management, medtechs can reduce inventory by up to 30 percent—freeing up cash and reducing write-offs.
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Jan 23, 2025
The former Under Secretary of State discusses the risk of a trade war, the rise of China, and the importance of geopolitical context in corporate decision making.
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Jan 23, 2025
Despite investing significantly in technology, US auto retailers face productivity roadblocks and rising costs. A new playbook can help create value.
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Jan 22, 2025
Most top pharma companies derive more than 60 percent of their revenue from therapies for diseases that affect women uniquely, differently, or disproportionately, putting them in a prime position to close the sex- and gender-based health gap.
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Jan 22, 2025
The year ends with political shifts and mixed markets: European equities are flat; US stocks are down. Global interest rates are normalizing, with the Fed and ECB each cutting rates by 25 basis points.
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Jan 22, 2025
Europe's consumer packaged goods industry players must achieve and scale commercial excellence to secure revenue, margin, and market share growth. Top CPG performers outcompete in four best-practice areas.
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Jan 22, 2025
Our latest report with Kantar finds consumers prioritizing value, shifting toward hard discount over traditional trade outlets, and embracing e-commerce growth.
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Jan 22, 2025
McKinsey associate partner Jules Barker discusses how real estate companies can start their AI-based data-gathering journeys.
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Jan 21, 2025
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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Jan 21, 2025
Strategy, tools, and talent are key considerations for institutional investors as they adopt and scale technology to generate alpha.
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Jan 21, 2025
Falling birth rates have become a hot topic around the world, and nowhere are they falling faster than in advanced economies in Asia. Together with China, these economies are undergoing a demographic wave that will soon wash over other nations, write Anu Madgavkar and Gautam Kumra in Bloomberg.
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Jan 21, 2025
Women experience substantial health inequities and poor health outcomes worldwide, and the global economy suffers as a result.
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Jan 21, 2025
As the 2025 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum kicks off in Davos, Switzerland, we explore how leaders can respond to geopolitical risks while seizing opportunities for growth.
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Jan 20, 2025
As geopolitical shifts affect global business corridors, opportunities are opening for companies. Asia is positioned at the epicenter to lead the way in reshaping trade and investment patterns.
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Jan 17, 2025
Daniel Yergin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning authority on energy, politics, and economics, discusses how rewriting the rules of globalization is making the world increasingly divided and perilous.
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Jan 17, 2025
Strategic focus and private sector-led lighthouse initiatives can change the Old Continent's trajectory—if the public sector radically changes the investment environment with a handful of priority initiatives.
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Jan 17, 2025
Companies that develop and implement effective management strategies for natural capital can secure lasting advantages through both enhanced resilience and access to nature-related opportunities.
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Jan 17, 2025
SaaS stands for software as a service. Users access SaaS products remotely via the cloud.
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Jan 16, 2025
Investing in holistic employee health can create almost $12 trillion in global economic value.
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Jan 16, 2025
As a physical transformation, the energy transition is still in the early stages. Progress is being made in some areas, but what challenges are holding us back?
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Jan 16, 2025
The CIO for Verizon Consumer and Business Group reveals the transformational changes that mattered so IT could adapt and innovate.
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Jan 16, 2025
Yes, the changing geopolitical reality presents new risks—but like all disruptions, it may also create new opportunities. Here's how.
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Jan 16, 2025
For North American downstream oil refineries, now is the time to improve value chain optimization through focused, management-led transformation efforts that could drive margin improvements.
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Jan 15, 2025
Indian farmers see an opportunity from crop yield and price improvements to deepen investment in new products and services, a McKinsey survey found.
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Jan 15, 2025
Despite progress in reducing extreme poverty, about 60 percent of the global population—4.7 billion people, including an estimated 70 million in the United States and 200 million in other high-income countries—live below the economic empowerment line. This yardstick, developed by the McKinsey Global Institute, measures if individuals' essential needs are being met. It defines a standard basket of basic goods and services for a frugal yet decent quality of life —including country-specific costs for adequate housing, food, healthcare, education, transportation, and a small amount of emergency savings, writes Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.
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Jan 15, 2025
The United Kingdom's inventive climate technology sector can learn from others' successes to overcome its scaling challenges and create the unicorns of the future.
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Jan 15, 2025
Exploring the implications of a new demographic reality brought on by falling fertility and increasing longevity.
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Jan 14, 2025
Organizational strength depends on sustaining good performance. Our new survey shows that five practices could bolster long-term health.
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Jan 14, 2025
Our CEO Excellence research offers insights into how public sector leaders can maximize their impact during the transition.
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Jan 14, 2025
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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Jan 14, 2025
By developing strong operating models, matching talent to the right roles, and clearly articulating the "why," separation leaders can ensure that existing and new businesses thrive.
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Jan 13, 2025
Macroeconomic headwinds, shifting client preferences, and a deteriorating value proposition are weighing on the global luxury sector. The Business of Fashion and McKinsey outline five strategic imperatives for luxury executives.
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Jan 13, 2025
Toshiaki Higashihara, executive chairman of Hitachi, shares insights on reshaping corporate governance and preparing for the CEO role and discusses how these efforts support Hitachi's long-term global vision.
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Jan 13, 2025
Growth requires the right mix of outlook, strategy, and capabilities. Top leaders achieve their goals by turning five mindsets into action.
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Jan 13, 2025
US consumers' sentiment and their spending patterns have been out of sync. Here's how executives can make sense of the mixed signals.
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Jan 13, 2025
Growth requires the right mix of outlook, strategy, and capabilities. Top leaders achieve their goals by turning five mindsets into action.
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Jan 10, 2025
Serial entrepreneur René Lacerte talks about BILL's quest to help businesses connect and transact and his passion for small and midsize businesses.
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Jan 10, 2025
Gen AI pilots have shown promise, but for the technology to deliver transformational business value in the life sciences industry, organizations need to rethink how they scale it.
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Jan 10, 2025
The president of the Council on Foreign Relations explains that companies today are facing the most complex international environment in 80 years.
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Jan 10, 2025
CEOs in pharma, biotech, and medtech are increasingly building patient-centric businesses but are struggling to do so. Avoiding five common roadblocks can help leaders build successful businesses.
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Jan 10, 2025
Figma chief product officer Yuhki Yamashita discusses how to leverage connections with customers and communities to promote product-led growth.
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Jan 10, 2025
Industry economics are shifting toward non-acute care delivery, healthcare software, data, analytics, and specialty pharmacy segments.
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Jan 09, 2025
Three lighthouse use cases serve as a blueprint for AI's potential to improve the speed, efficiency, and quality of clinical trials.
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Jan 09, 2025
Leading biopharmaceutical companies manage their clinical pipelines to optimize for risk and reward. Here's how.
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Jan 09, 2025
Leading companies are revamping research and early development to curb lengthy drug development timelines and rising costs.
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Jan 09, 2025
Rapid advancements in science and technology are challenging pharma and biotech companies' approaches to talent. What R&D skills do they need today, and how can they sustain this workforce?
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Jan 09, 2025
Pharma R&D leaders and their suppliers see transparency as a key to unlocking more effective collaborations and cost efficiencies.
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Jan 09, 2025
A modern, well-designed tech stack can unlock the potential of AI, automation, and data and their promised benefits to R&D productivity.
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Jan 09, 2025
Careful development of asset strategy across the pharmaceutical R&D pipeline is increasingly important in embracing opportunities for innovation.
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Jan 09, 2025
Top-performing pharma companies over the past decade have relied on a short list of critical dealmaking behaviors that drive high external innovation productivity.
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Jan 08, 2025
Connections, contexts, and capabilities can guide corporate efforts to create empowerment impact efficiently.
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Jan 08, 2025
Howard Jacob, vice president of genomics research and head of data integration at AbbVie, shares his view on the potential of personalized data, AI, and machine learning to prevent and cure disease.
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Jan 08, 2025
Challenging times in agriculture have reinforced the importance of productivity for profitability, a McKinsey survey of Brazilian farmers found.
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Jan 07, 2025
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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Jan 06, 2025
Beauty brands and retailers have already begun testing gen AI. To scale these experiments quickly, beauty players should focus on high-value use cases and customize gen AI tools to meet their needs.
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Jan 06, 2025
McKinsey's technology leaders offer their insights on how leaders can make the most of tech this year.
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Jan 03, 2025
With technological hurdles falling, shared autonomous vehicles are no longer an experimental curiosity. What needs to happen to accelerate uptake?
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Jan 03, 2025
A new survey shows high interest in remote-driving services that let another person control the car.
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Jan 03, 2025
Software-defined hardware is reshaping multiple industries as advances in AI enable new capabilities and dramatically reduce development costs.
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Jan 03, 2025
From building robust operational ecosystems to embracing generative AI, top companies are finding new ways to thrive in an environment that's anything but normal.
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Jan 03, 2025
As the automotive and industrial sectors undergo major technological advancements, gen AI-driven operating models can allow companies to develop software more easily, safely, and innovatively.
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Dec 31, 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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Dec 24, 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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Dec 23, 2024
After the US elections, economic uncertainty has grown, raising questions about trade. Meanwhile, China announced stimulus measures, and central banks continue to adjust monetary policy as inflation eases.
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Dec 20, 2024
A month after the US elections, potential changes to trade relationships and other policies are top of mind for executives. Expectations for the global economy remain largely stable.
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Dec 20, 2024
A former McKinsey consultant-turned-academic explains how embracing uncertainty and exercising sound judgment can lead to better business decisions and drive innovation.
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Dec 20, 2024
The CEO and co-founder of Arbol discusses how the insurtech fills gaps in insurance coverage with parametric solutions powered by AI while drawing from a diverse array of expertise.
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Dec 20, 2024
Maximizing generative AI's promise while minimizing its misuse requires an inclusive approach that puts humans first.
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Dec 19, 2024
Tariffs are top of mind for executives—and are likely to stay there. Understanding various tariff scenarios can position leaders to seize opportunities in the coming years.
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Dec 19, 2024
As 2024 draws to a close, we look back at some of the best insights from McKinsey thought leaders.
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Dec 19, 2024
Our latest ConsumerWise research finds omnichannel shopping gaining momentum as consumer demand for value purchases persists.
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Dec 19, 2024
In the green transition, the steel industry needs to find ways to lower emissions. One way forward could be rethinking not only how but where steel manufacturing happens across the globe.
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Dec 19, 2024
As business travel regains momentum, opportunities could arise for companies that can offer tech solutions for evolving challenges.
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Dec 19, 2024
Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy, employing nearly 60% of workers and contributing almost 40% to the nation's value-added output. Accounting for 34,752,434 companies, 99.9% of all American companies are small businesses. However, micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in the U.S. are only half as productive as large companies, a stark contrast to the 60% productivity ratio seen in other advanced economies, according to research by my colleagues at the McKinsey Global Institute. This gap in productivity is equivalent to 5.4% of GDP, making it crucial to boost U.S. competitiveness in a shifting global market, writes Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.
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Dec 19, 2024
Fast-increasing demand for battery raw materials and imbalanced regional supply and demand are challenging battery and automotive producers' efforts to reduce Scope 3 emissions.
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Dec 19, 2024
Companies that are effective at separations can significantly outperform their peers. Our latest survey highlights the opportunities, and complexities, of achieving a successful separation.
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Dec 18, 2024
The World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders, current and alumni, share their thoughts on issues they believe should get much more attention in Davos but might not amid a plethora of business topics.
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Dec 18, 2024
After years of outperforming the rest of the market, the chemicals industry's returns are lagging. To reverse this trend, the industry will need to rethink how it creates value.
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Dec 18, 2024
You're busy. You're under pressure. But yes, you still need to carve out more time for your team. Here's why—and how the best leaders make it happen.
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Dec 18, 2024
For all their efforts to reignite growth, telcos have yet to overcome their fundamental challenges. Doing so is still feasible, but the viable paths will require unprecedented transformation.
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Dec 18, 2024
In recent years, many consumer companies have delivered strong price-driven sales growth at the expense of volume. As inflation abates, they will need a more sophisticated recipe.
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Dec 18, 2024
Recent trends indicate an improvement in the affordability of a four-year degree in the United States. The question is whether the trend can continue.
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Dec 18, 2024
Value at stake provides a framework for companies to approach risks and opportunities from sustainability.
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Dec 18, 2024
Though 24/7 clean power purchase agreements are gaining global momentum and could drive the deployment of storage and flexible generation assets, they require power suppliers to develop new capabilities.
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Dec 18, 2024
The procurement function regularly reinvents itself to find new sources of value. Is circularity the next opportunity on the horizon?
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Dec 17, 2024
Fighting fraud that targets the federal government is an opportunity worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Agencies, legislature, and the public could work together to claim some of that back.
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Dec 17, 2024
Historically, the fertilizer market has experienced slow and steady growth; however, demand shifts could change the picture by 2040.
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Dec 17, 2024
Battery chemistry for electric vehicles is evolving rapidly, leading to repercussions for the entire value chain.
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Dec 17, 2024
The leader of Blackstone Credit and Insurance looks at where the industries have been and where they're headed.
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Dec 17, 2024
Instituting a geopolitics strategy around people can strengthen the cohesion of the organization while protecting it from risks.
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Dec 17, 2024
Europe can lead in deep tech—with an ecosystem approach and a well-managed investment strategy.
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Dec 17, 2024
Digital investments are paying off in logistics, but challenges still persist.
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Dec 17, 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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Dec 17, 2024
Eli Lilly and Company's chief information and digital officer explains how a medicine company rewires itself to embrace technology—starting with the CEO.
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Dec 16, 2024
From navigating the CEO journey to boosting employee engagement to discovering your company's superpower, here are this year's highlights from the Five Fifty.
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Dec 16, 2024
Leading companies are using transformation to achieve profitable growth—enabled by specific behaviors.
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Dec 16, 2024
Despite a range of challenges, Latino-owned small businesses are growing rapidly. Investing in their potential can support future generations of Latino entrepreneurs and boost the US economy.
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Dec 13, 2024
Our interviews with top CROs reveal practices risk leaders at financial institutions can use to expand their influence and build greater resilience in their organizations amid unrelenting change.
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