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Oct 18, 2021
As industrial companies—especially in process industries—strive for a zero-carbon future, a time-tested approach shows renewed value in helping reduce carbon by up to one-third in three to five years.
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Oct 18, 2021
The CEO of ZhongAn Insurance says the industry can generate momentum for growth by taking advantage of trends, preparing for future developments, and increasing investments in digital transformation.
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Oct 18, 2021
Colleges and universities that learn from online education pioneers could improve operations and students' experiences—and ensure their long-term viability.
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Oct 18, 2021
How can the federal government think about remote work and the workplace environment—and communicate changes to its workforce?
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Oct 15, 2021
Shared-services and GBS organizations face twin needs: to accelerate digital capabilities and learn to work within a constantly evolving environment.
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Oct 15, 2021
The industry has made vast profitability gains in recent years. Can it seize the moment to accelerate value creation even further?
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Oct 15, 2021
As global organizations seek to recast themselves for speed, the retail sector has been under significant pressure. Enterprise agility is emerging as a solution.
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Oct 15, 2021
Ericsson's head of data enablement explains how the company is enabling its people to make full and effective use of data.
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Oct 15, 2021
In her new book, the Emory University law professor explains why US tax policy disadvantages Black Americans—and how to make the system more equitable.
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Oct 15, 2021
Regional healthcare providers should address some familiar topics—with speed and all at once—to thrive in the next normal.
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Oct 14, 2021
As economies emerge from the pandemic and plan for the next decade of growth, insurance companies need to rethink the strategic function of risk.
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Oct 14, 2021
In a time of uncertainty, fashion and luxury companies are struggling to monetize their data. Leading firms are moving swiftly, gaining market share, and creating lasting value.
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Oct 14, 2021
Ten strategic moves can help the power sector play a pivotal role in reducing carbon emissions.
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Oct 13, 2021
Embedding AI across an enterprise to tap its full business value requires shifting from bespoke builds to an industrialized AI factory. MLOps can help, but the CEO must facilitate it.
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Oct 13, 2021
Two decades of research show that, while large deals still have their place, programmatic M&A strategies continue to create gains in excess total returns to shareholders, at lower levels of risk.
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Oct 12, 2021
Fast-growing companies spend 2.6 times more than slower ones on intangible assets like brand, skills, and knowledge. Are you investing enough in the assets you can't see?
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Oct 12, 2021
Personalization at scale can optimize every customer experience when executed well. What are the key success factors leading organizations focus on to deliver customer-centric growth?
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Oct 12, 2021
Only recently it was a futuristic dream—but today, cultivated meat is a product consumers are just beginning to taste. The next step is scaling a global industry.
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Oct 12, 2021
COVID-19 has made it more pressing than ever to integrate online and offline offerings and to establish integrated health ecosystems. We asked key healthcare leaders about their views to make this change happen.
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Oct 12, 2021
Companies aim to embrace the cloud more fully, but many are already failing to reap the sizable rewards. Outperformers have shown what it takes to overcome the costly hurdles.
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Oct 12, 2021
Whether relying mainly on in-house or external talent, gig-style staffing models—when managed carefully—could give customer care the horsepower and flexibility it needs for today's increasingly volatile markets.
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Oct 12, 2021
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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Oct 12, 2021
How do top-performing companies maximize the impact of their loyalty programs in the next normal? By focusing on customer behavior, segment by segment.
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Oct 11, 2021
What will it take to grow in the age of value-added services? Our work with payments practitioners suggests a few promising strategies for serving smaller companies.
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Oct 11, 2021
The entrepreneur and innovation adviser explains how to make bold innovations flourish.
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Oct 11, 2021
By acknowledging and addressing four factors relating to execution and operations, ParentCo can separate from SpinCo in a way that creates value for both.
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Oct 11, 2021
With the rapid rise in circulation of stablecoins over the past couple of years, central banks have stepped up efforts to explore their own stable digital currencies.
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Oct 11, 2021
Changes in Asia's consumer markets offer new and diverse opportunities for growth.
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Oct 11, 2021
As clients demand solutions to enhance their corporate treasury activities, banks are increasingly partnering with fintechs and software players.
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Oct 08, 2021
Those who report mental illness have disproportionately faced economic disadvantages and report greater financial stress.
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Oct 08, 2021
Making a profit in e-commerce can be a struggle for consumer-packaged-goods manufacturers. Two McKinsey experts discuss the problem—and potential solutions.
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Oct 08, 2021
The trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo discusses the events that shaped her life and offers a blueprint for work-family conundrums.
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Oct 08, 2021
Nearly two years of tumult have accelerated disruption, with lasting effects on society and business. To thrive in the consumer-packaged- goods industry, digital and analytics are now essential.
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Oct 08, 2021
A winning digital strategy requires new twists to familiar moves.
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Oct 07, 2021
Long viewed as a relative laggard, Japan's start-up ecosystem is beginning to come into its own. Investor Paul McInerney sheds light on the evolving environment for entrepreneurs.
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Oct 07, 2021
Asian consumers are changing the way they shop and spend, and these shifts are creating a $10 trillion growth opportunity over the next decade. Tiago Devesa, engagement manager in McKinsey's Sydney office, explains what these new consumption patterns are, and what this means for businesses.
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Oct 07, 2021
The German auto supplier ZF Friedrichshafen is reinventing a key division. Its head of transformation explains how separating the company's people leadership from its product lines improves both.
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Oct 07, 2021
Rapid growth and strong demand bump against pandemic-related disruptions; energy prices surge, but long-term inflation expectations remain moderate.
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Oct 07, 2021
The global payments sector is poised for a quick return to healthy growth, but the benefits will not flow evenly to all participants.
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Oct 07, 2021
New research shows that now is the time for finance leaders to lean into the evolution of their roles and reassert themselves as strategic partners and digital enablers to the business.
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Oct 06, 2021
A Nobel laureate explores postpandemic prospects, explaining why his cautious optimism about the economic recovery has been replaced by concern related to the slow vaccine rollout in lower-income economies, fragile supply chains, and extreme weather events.
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Oct 06, 2021
The past 18 months have planted multiple seeds of disruption which are setting a dynamic new horizon of growth for the industry in the coming decade.
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Oct 06, 2021
The CEO of Archangels reveals startling new insights on the health of American unpaid caregivers amid the COVID-19 crisis.
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Oct 06, 2021
Leading banks have made deep-seated changes to their technology spending priorities, role mix, and talent mix, unlocking a step change in productivity.
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Oct 05, 2021
Parag Khanna provides a vision of the next phase of human civilization—one that is both mobile and sustainable.
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Oct 05, 2021
Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations explains his five-year strategy that includes reducing vaccine timelines.
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Oct 05, 2021
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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Oct 05, 2021
Banks can use APIs to generate income growth from corporate customer segments, improve customer experience, and fuel innovation.
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Oct 04, 2021
Utility leaders are achieving great customer experiences while driving out costs. Doing so requires customer-experience transformations around self-service and digital channels.
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Oct 01, 2021
With more satellites and space debris in orbit, it's time for a new approach for mitigating collisions.
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Oct 01, 2021
Regulators seeking ways to balance protection of customers' interests, financial institutions' risks, and their other policy objectives for digital banking can learn from early regulatory experiences.
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Oct 01, 2021
Companies that regularly refresh their portfolios tend to outperform, but deciding when and how to divest a business may be the most challenging part of M&A.
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Oct 01, 2021
Every year, trillions of dollars are invested in the infrastructure that helps us—and our goods—get around. What will it take to move the transport infrastructure industry toward carbon zero?
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Sep 30, 2021
Consumer-goods companies are under pressure to optimize manufacturing for the next normal. Advanced analytics could drive significant impact for their complex footprints and portfolios.
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Sep 30, 2021
Over the next decade, the fully tech-enabled insurer will bear little resemblance to today's organization. Five trends, individually and in combination, will have a seismic impact.
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Sep 30, 2021
The growth of insurtechs is driving innovation and disruption in the industry. Four McKinsey experts discuss the current state and the future evolution of the field.
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Sep 30, 2021
In an era of workplace upheaval, companies that create tailored, authentic experiences strengthen employee purpose, ignite energy, and elevate organization-wide performance.
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Sep 30, 2021
The paths taken by Chinese companies have relevant implications for other digital and traditional players as they craft their strategies.
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Sep 29, 2021
The journey to agile marketing can be hard. But for many marketers and agencies, it offers the opportunity to forge a better partnership.
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Sep 29, 2021
Executives' sentiment on economic conditions continues to be positive, even as concerns mount—yet again—over the pandemic's threat to growth.
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Sep 29, 2021
Industry and the government have evolved rapidly since the COVID-19 outbreak. What still needs to change, what will stay, and what will be left behind in the postpandemic economy?
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Sep 28, 2021
Commercial trucks are a major source of emissions in cities. Carl-Magnus Norden thinks his start-up can be the catalyst needed to make the sector more environmentally-friendly.
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Sep 28, 2021
Faced with rising cyberthreats, government and the private sector will need to improve their digital hygiene while also preparing for the next wave of cyber adversaries.
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Sep 28, 2021
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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Sep 28, 2021
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, investors have rewarded specialist financial institutions and universal banks making bold portfolio moves.
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Sep 28, 2021
How can industrial companies maintain strong bonds with distributors while cultivating direct sales through e-commerce?
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Sep 28, 2021
While more Americans receive and show openness to receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, concerns persist among guardians of children and other cautious segments.
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Sep 27, 2021
Machine learning shows tremendous potential for increasing process efficiency. But generating real, lasting value requires more than just the best algorithms.
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Sep 27, 2021
At manufacturing lighthouses, the Fourth Industrial Revolution makes sustainability easier. Environmental sustainability and operational competitiveness reinforce one another, thanks to digital.
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Sep 27, 2021
In Africa, the decarbonization of the manufacturing sector and economic growth and industrialization can go hand in hand; the choices the continent makes now will be critical for its future success and prosperity.
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Sep 27, 2021
China's consumption story is evolving. Rising incomes still matter, but the primary feature of the next decade may very well be the impact of sweeping demographic and social change that is coinciding with the rapid march of technology. To find the consumers who will drive China's growth, you need to look at very different groups of individuals. So who are the consumers who are key to growth? Jonathan Woetzel and Jeongmin Seong highlight five consumer shifts that matter.
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Sep 24, 2021
Unprecedented private equity deal flow means more leaders than ever are stepping into the portfolio-company CEO role. Here's guidance from the experts on the role's unique challenges and demands.
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Sep 24, 2021
Most P&C insurers in Europe and North America are investing in data and analytics to improve underwriting; those with the most advanced capabilities enjoy better operating results and performance.
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Sep 24, 2021
Companies need to borrow a page from the tech industry's playbook to understand how to use agile to build better products and experiences.
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Sep 24, 2021
Digital marketing offers medtech companies powerful ways to personalize engagement with healthcare professionals and respond to their changing needs.
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Sep 23, 2021
A sophisticated, predictive, and customized new marketing agenda is enabling CPG marketers to fulfill their new growth mandate. Here are the key ingredients.
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Sep 23, 2021
Pharmaceutical supply chains have become global and complex. With more outsourcing, new modalities, and novel ways to reach patients, it's critical to ensure that they can withstand shocks.
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Sep 23, 2021
Deciding how many employees to involve in an organization's transformation shouldn't be a guessing game. New research can help.
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Sep 23, 2021
As consumer use of digital banking accelerates in Asia-Pacific, the region's emerging markets have become the hub of banking innovation for digital business models.
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Sep 23, 2021
A 26-year-old incumbent seized an opportunity to reinvent itself—and attract its next generation of customers.
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Sep 23, 2021
Electric-vehicle sales are surging, transforming every aspect of the business. Our assessment helps US auto dealers prepare for the coming change.
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Sep 23, 2021
The lessons of transforming performance at one midsize US bank came down to shifting mindsets and behaviors.
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Sep 23, 2021
Like other e-commerce but with less fanfare, C2C trade has expanded during the COVID-19 crisis alongside demand for recycled goods. A new business model could support still stronger growth.
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Sep 23, 2021
Methane accounts for about one-third of global warming. New McKinsey research shows how five industries can cut emissions with proven technologies and at a reasonable cost.
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Sep 22, 2021
Empowering women in the workplace could unlock significant economic growth in the region.
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Sep 22, 2021
Two-thirds of the average company's environment, social, and governance footprint lies with suppliers. Procurement leaders who take bold action can make a decisive difference in sustainability.
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Sep 22, 2021
One of the US Navy's first female fighter pilots, the engineering and robotics professor talks about the promise and peril of automation in airplanes and cars, predicting a "very distinct shift away from replacing human reasoning to augmenting human reasoning."
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Sep 22, 2021
Succeeding in the fast-growing food-delivery ecosystem will require understanding how overlapping economic forces affect a complex web of stakeholders.
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Sep 21, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic upended life as we know it, and devastated the travel industry globally. As travel volumes are returning in many parts of the world, customer experience is emerging as the challenge of the recovery.
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Sep 21, 2021
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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Sep 21, 2021
As households get smaller, new forms of connection and consumption are emerging. Are you ready to hug your robot friend?
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Sep 21, 2021
This cloud cost-optimization simulator details the range of levers that can be used to substantially reduce costs for one illustrative scenario of an application on the cloud.
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Sep 21, 2021
Electric-vehicle sales are increasing, yet many OEMs are still defining their path toward profitability. Our new report helps automotive leaders improve their EV business strategy.
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Sep 20, 2021
Digital finance has many aspects that can improve the workings of emerging economies and further the cause of sustainable development. Open data for finance, where financial data is shared digitally among financial institutions with limited effort or manipulation, is a powerful tool to that end, write Anu Madgavkar and Olivia White.
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Sep 20, 2021
Public institutions can make more of their data resources. Five actions can help them modernize their data infrastructures and unlock significant value across state, economy, and society.
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Sep 20, 2021
Angela Hwang, Pfizer's head of biopharmaceuticals, talks about breaking new ground when the pressure is on—and how having a deep company heritage can help.
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Sep 20, 2021
Angela Hwang, Pfizer's head of biopharmaceuticals, talks about breaking new ground when the pressure is on—and how having a deep company heritage can help.
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Sep 17, 2021
Cloud-based computing will provide tangible benefits for banking risk management functions, but risk leaders face significant challenges migrating their systems and activities from on-premises to the cloud.
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Sep 17, 2021
Addressing gender alone won't help women rise to the top.
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Sep 16, 2021
Industrial manufacturing levels in the United States have been falling for decades, but process innovation is gaining steam and could reinvigorate this struggling sector.
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