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Jul 03, 2025
Return-to-office mandates are on the rise. A labor economist explains why this trend isn't sustainable and why a work-from-anywhere model could yet be the future of work.
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Jul 03, 2025
With global spending on large-scale public infrastructure projects at its highest level in decades, digital twins could improve public sector capital and operational efficiency by 20 to 30 percent.
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Jul 03, 2025
A state-of-the-art survey unveils widespread workforce and HR trends, serving as a comprehensive benchmark for the European HR landscape and offering key insights for HR leaders.
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Jul 03, 2025
The global trade system is rife with uncertainty—but businesses can't afford to remain frozen. Here's how leaders can take action with tariff and trade policies in flux.
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Jul 02, 2025
The advanced industrial manufacturing workforce is retiring, and new workers need training for complex roles. Reducing time to proficiency could be critical to unlocking increased productivity.
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Jul 02, 2025
Potential shortfalls in networking optics supply could hinder data center and AI expansion. How can players boost supply and seize growth opportunities, especially in high-bandwidth transceivers?
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Jul 02, 2025
The first few months in the chief risk officer role are critical to lay the foundation for success. By practicing six habits, CROs can differentiate themselves from day one.
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Jul 02, 2025
Each year, we invite a diverse group of leaders to share the books that have resonated with them—or ones they can't wait to read. This year's list includes over 90 titles, from timely insights to timeless fiction.
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Jul 01, 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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Jul 01, 2025
How a focus on scope, safety, and speed helped the Dutch multinational bank deploy its gen AI transformation quickly and effectively.
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Jul 01, 2025
Supply chain cybersecurity vulnerabilities frequently make headlines, so being prepared must be a priority. Here's a new approach to protecting business-critical processes from nth-party risks.
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Jun 30, 2025
Surveyed executives continue to show guarded optimism about their companies' prospects in the coming months.
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Jun 30, 2025
To ensure that their companies engage effectively with stakeholders, CEOs must set communication standards, embody the organization's culture and purpose, and speak up in moments that matter most.
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Jun 30, 2025
The CEO of The Minnesota Star Tribune shares his journey from Google executive to state economic leader—and now, to reimagining the future of America and the places we call home.
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Jun 30, 2025
The CEO of The Minnesota Star Tribune shares his journey from Google executive to state economic leader—and now, to reimagining the future of America and the places we call home.
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Jun 30, 2025
CEO Olivier Bron shares what distinguishes the 150-year-old brand in the crowded retail landscape and how it aims to create lasting relationships with shoppers.
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Jun 30, 2025
Surveyed executives increasingly point to changes to trade policy and relationships as a disruptive force they expect to affect the world economy, their countries, and their companies.
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Jun 30, 2025
A pragmatic look at what general-purpose robots can—and can't yet—do in the workplace.
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Jun 27, 2025
Healthcare organizations face growing complexity, and physicians are eager to step in, drawing on their distinct expertise. Here's how their CEO potential can be unlocked to achieve both mission and margin.
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Jun 27, 2025
State regulatory variations create challenges for insurance companies seeking technology solutions that improve both customer experience and ROI.
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Jun 27, 2025
Inflation trends remain mixed across regions, prompting divergent rate responses from central banks; investors were more positive in May, equity markets rebounded, and most countries closed higher.
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Jun 27, 2025
Operators have long asked whether they can expand beyond connectivity. Our latest survey of tech and telco B2B decision-makers shows the market offers a resounding "yes."
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Jun 26, 2025
Aligning the needs of students, universities, and private real estate owners and operators can lead to long-term success in student housing.
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Jun 26, 2025
Amid unprecedented rate hikes and financial pressures, large employers, which account for more than $800 billion in healthcare expenditures, are driving the future of the health benefits market.
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Jun 25, 2025
Only 10 percent of cloud transformations achieve their full value. Integrating site reliability engineering in cloud adoption journeys can lead to better outcomes.
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Jun 25, 2025
Private capital is flooding into IT services, yet Europe's fragmented market remains ripe for value creation.
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Jun 25, 2025
The goal of a redesign is to increase value, but failure rates are high. New research updates classic rules of redesign to help leaders flip the odds of success.
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Jun 25, 2025
Fewer roles. Different roles. More roles requiring new skills. As AI upends today's talent landscape, the watchword is "uncertainty." What's really going on?
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Jun 25, 2025
McKinsey Senior Partner Patrick Finn discusses how being nimble, continuously improving, and taking advantage of new technologies will help healthcare organizations better serve patients.
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Jun 25, 2025
Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, one of India's largest and most profitable private sector companies, discusses how clarity of goal and purpose, accompanied by the right people, can drive innovation, unlock extraordinary talent, and create impact.
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Jun 25, 2025
A newly defined "rearrangement ratio" gauges the potential to rearrange US imports from China and how this could ripple across the globe.
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Jun 25, 2025
Adulting now comes with a new manual. Author Gretchen Rubin breaks down the complexities of grown-up life, from self-mastery to decision-making, offering a clear path to reaching your full potential.
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Jun 24, 2025
One in five US children has a mental health condition. Schools may play a critical role in providing evidence-based interventions. We suggest six actions for states to consider.
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Jun 24, 2025
US families face a housing shortfall from coast to coast. New research reveals what's at stake if costs continue to escalate, plus what can be done differently to advance meaningful change.
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Jun 24, 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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Jun 24, 2025
Despite some common global themes, consumer priorities and perceptions toward packaging materials vary by country, requiring a granular understanding and nuanced planning from packaging stakeholders.
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Jun 24, 2025
Rising revenues, doubled margins: The away-from-home market is the new growth driver for the consumer goods industry. We explore leading companies' recipe for success in this unique sales channel.
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Jun 24, 2025
Our latest research reveals that long-term investors use purpose and portfolio synergies to drive high returns. How can they sustain superior performance in a new era?
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Jun 24, 2025
This series of McKinsey Explainers explores what's around the next corner for the mobility industry.
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Jun 23, 2025
Extended-range electric vehicles may ease the transition to the electric future of mobility.
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Jun 23, 2025
Strong communications with long-term investors may be enough to attract them. Evidence of active resource allocation, increasing market share, and transformation will keep them.
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Jun 23, 2025
Strong communications with long-term investors may be enough to attract them. Evidence of active resource allocation, increasing market share, and transformation will keep them.
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Jun 23, 2025
Our fourth annual Quantum Technology Monitor report shows that surging investment and faster-than-expected innovation could propel the quantum market to $100 billion in a decade.
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Jun 23, 2025
As increasing AI workloads fuel growing demand for data center capacity, how can data-intensive companies mitigate the environmental impact of their rising energy needs?
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Jun 23, 2025
How will autonomous vehicles reshape Europe's transportation landscape? Industry leaders share their insights.
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Jun 20, 2025
A successful governor's transition doesn't end at inauguration day—or even after the first 100 days in office. Rather, it involves designing and putting in place the new governor's operating model.
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Jun 20, 2025
R&D has been getting more difficult and more expensive. Here's how AI can accelerate the process—and usher in a new era of growth.
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Jun 19, 2025
India, which played a limited role in the global arenas before, could now build on inherent endowments and large-scale sectors to excel in 18 high-growth, dynamic arenas—global and national—and generate up to $2 trillion in revenues by 2030.
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Jun 18, 2025
Analog Devices CIO Nancy Avila charts a course to value through building trust between the business and IT.
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Jun 18, 2025
In a disrupted world, public sector leadership is getting harder. New McKinsey research shows how excellent leaders are rising to the challenge: They make purpose their engine and character their compass.
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Jun 18, 2025
In her latest book, Maggie Smith explores ten carefully selected principles of creativity—including wonder, surprise, play, and hope—that can be applied to the art of writing and living.
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Jun 18, 2025
While your strategic goals may be the right ones, is the organization built to achieve them? New research reveals a dynamic system that creates value in the face of volatility.
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Jun 18, 2025
Trade routes face high variability in growth under different scenarios, with one-third of global trade potentially exposed to volatility by 2035.
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Jun 17, 2025
What does it take to sponsor someone well? Rosalind Chow shares a strategic framework for reshaping workplace relationships and advancing talent.
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Jun 17, 2025
Our May obituaries also include a celebrity optician, a legendary blind guitarist who saw the world through music, and a renowned geophysicist who once worked with Mother Teresa.
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Jun 17, 2025
In a new survey, CFOs report a continued push to transform their organizations. Here's how they can best support those efforts.
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Jun 17, 2025
Shifting tariffs and trade policies are pushing companies to rethink their supply chain strategies to protect growth and stay competitive.
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Jun 17, 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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Jun 16, 2025
Cutting emissions is more important than ever. Marginal abatement cost curves help companies develop cost-effective strategies.
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Jun 16, 2025
Aviation industry experts remain skeptical amid high costs and technical feasibility challenges.
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Jun 16, 2025
Accelerating consolidation is reshaping the industry. Three imperatives could help companies better position themselves to be among the leaders of tomorrow.
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Jun 16, 2025
US aerospace and defense companies face core skills gaps and high turnover. A new report reveals strategies to boost workforce productivity and maximize the return on talent.
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Jun 16, 2025
As the number and complexity of geopolitically motivated investment controls grow, business leaders need to assess foreign investment opportunities in a way that prevents unpleasant surprises.
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Jun 16, 2025
Marketing has slid to the back seat at many companies, resulting in a loss of customer focus. Bringing the chief marketing officer up front and aligning with the CEO and CFO can reignite sustainable growth.
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Jun 13, 2025
A CEO playbook to solve the gen AI paradox and unlock scalable impact with AI agents.
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Jun 13, 2025
Leaders of multinational companies are grappling with fundamental questions about how to operate globally in a fragmenting world. The answer lies in reimagining their organizations for an evolving business environment.
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Jun 13, 2025
Carrier Global Corporation Chair and CEO David Gitlin talks about how going through a spin-off, a pandemic, and a major repositioning in his first years at the helm have shaped him and his company.
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Jun 12, 2025
Asia-Pacific countries continue to show varied consumer behaviors in uncertain times. Our latest ConsumerWise research unpacks the diverse sentiments, concerns, and spending habits of the region.
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Jun 12, 2025
Thought leadership: Everyone's doing it. But what's it really worth? Two experts from the IBM Institute for Business Value share new research on how to calculate the value of your research-driven content, as well as what to do differently to elevate returns.
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Jun 12, 2025
Clinical supply costs make up a large share of a health system's total cost base. As healthcare leaders look to optimize clinical supply spend, physician perspectives can unlock potential value.
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Jun 12, 2025
The time is now to focus on AI infrastructure, which will enable companies to scale AI and build a future where humans and multiple AI agents successfully work together.
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Jun 11, 2025
Elevating digital sales can help credit unions win over younger consumers, who are integral to their future success.
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Jun 11, 2025
Operations functions are often where the rubber meets the road for the implementation of gen AI strategies and where companies can expect to see early examples of success and further potential.
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Jun 11, 2025
W. David Tarver, president and founder of the Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative, discusses urban entrepreneurship and how it improves quality of life in urban communities.
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Jun 11, 2025
Jeniffer Ramnath knows what it means to strive—and what it takes to succeed—as a woman in the tech industry.
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Jun 11, 2025
John Marioni discusses how he and his teams across industries and academia use evolving technologies to bring increasingly sophisticated drug therapies to patients.
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Jun 10, 2025
New analysis helps quantify the impact of technological disruption and shows how consumer companies can turn automation's potential into value.
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Jun 10, 2025
The media industry has focused on the quantity of consumer attention rather than the quality, but use of the "attention equation" can begin to bridge that gap.
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Jun 10, 2025
The Oscar-winning producer, talent manager, and cofounder of Sugar23 talks about a new model for brands to become full-fledged creators of long-form film and TV programming.
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Jun 10, 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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Jun 10, 2025
Multimodal AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can understand and process different types of information, such as text, images, audio, and video, all at the same time. Multimodal gen AI models produce outputs based on these various inputs.
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Jun 09, 2025
As momentum cools and definitions of beauty expand, beauty players face a new mandate: Win over skeptical consumers, recalibrate across markets, and prove their worth beyond the hype.
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Jun 09, 2025
Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers' crisis-era habits have lingered. Here's what organizations can do to outcompete in the second half of the decade.
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Jun 09, 2025
Procurement can be the first around the track for business transformation efforts. Our research identifies the three areas that matter most in increasing the odds of success.
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Jun 06, 2025
The quality-of-life market is extending beyond the health and well-being industries. An executive survey reveals how investors and businesses can capture the market potential of living better.
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Jun 06, 2025
Hard experience has revealed common technology pitfalls in building a gen AI capability and proven strategies for overcoming them.
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Jun 05, 2025
In times of disruption, many organizations freeze their innovation spending despite its critical importance for long-term growth. Here's how to avoid that trap.
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Jun 05, 2025
The CEO and cofounder of tech start-up Conscia.ai discusses how companies can easily modernize their technology architecture and accelerate their agility through composable tech stacks.
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Jun 05, 2025
Yes, AI has tremendous potential—but it also has tremendous implications for investments in power, real estate, and more. Here's what leaders need to know now in the face of rapidly rising demand.
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Jun 05, 2025
Mark Birkhead, chief data officer at JPMorganChase, shares how his team is leveraging AI to extract strategic value from the bank's massive data estate—all while meeting strict data governance standards.
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Jun 04, 2025
The rising cost of living and global geopolitical uncertainty are reshaping US consumers' sentiments toward—and preferences around—sustainable packaging in 2025 and beyond.
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Jun 04, 2025
McKinsey's Drew Ungerman discusses how healthcare leaders can improve patient care and use technology in a way that complements clinicians' work and enhances care delivery.
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Jun 04, 2025
Starbucks Coffee Company CTO Deb Hall Lefevre explains why architecture is strategy for modern businesses looking to compete in the technology age.
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Jun 04, 2025
Indian agriculture is thriving. Understanding its complexities—and its areas of opportunity—is critical for agribusinesses looking to be a part of its growth.
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Jun 04, 2025
The senior-housing industry has huge potential. Sam O'Gorman examines three approaches that could make senior housing more appealing, expand its reach, and enable better and more affordable care.
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Jun 04, 2025
As agentic AI begins to influence decisions at scale, forward-looking organizations need to reimagine governance, trust, and operating models—or risk falling behind.
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Jun 03, 2025
A healthy culture can triple a corporate venture's TSR by defining underlying beliefs, focusing on leadership, and modeling and celebrating desired behavior.
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Jun 03, 2025
There has been much discussion about the underlying fundamentals that differentiate UK capital markets from US markets and other leading global markets. A fresh perspective on changing dynamics in UK capital markets can help UK corporate leaders unlock opportunities.
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Jun 03, 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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Jun 03, 2025
The digital workforce is happening. Here's what it may look like when humans are working side by side with AI agents—and how to prepare now for this surprisingly near-term eventuality.
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