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Dec 06, 2024
A renewed focus on the 2013 data risk management regulatory standard poses new challenges and opportunities for European and US banks. Achieving compliance will take a structured, top-led approach.
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Dec 06, 2024
A key task for 21st-century leaders is to develop their own capacity for change while also fostering resilience and adaptability in others across the organization. Here's a blueprint for doing that.
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Dec 05, 2024
Novel capital deployment and procurement approaches could help address the current challenges within the oil and gas industry's upstream market, leading to increased value creation.
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Dec 05, 2024
Even though the industry will continue to face hurdles for the next few years, leaders can seize the moment to spur lasting improvements for their organizations and patients.
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Dec 05, 2024
The financial services industry is changing. Leaders who approach banking transformations boldly and engage their whole team in the process may find more success.
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Dec 05, 2024
A context window is how information is entered into a large language model (LLM). The larger the context window, the more information the LLM is able to process at once.
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Dec 04, 2024
Global real estate developers can find enduring success through deep collaborations with nontraditional partners. Here's how.
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Dec 04, 2024
To realize gen AI's full value, insurance leaders must know how it works and what problems it can—and cannot—solve. Likewise, data and context are vital to innovating solutions for changing demands.
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Dec 04, 2024
What does it really take to lead a nation effectively? The former Prime Minister of the UK shares a lot of practical tips for successful leadership.
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Dec 03, 2024
Healthcare organizations are well positioned to offer healthcare content to improve consumer experience and care outcomes, achieve marketing objectives, and create a diversified revenue source.
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Dec 03, 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 02, 2024
Noting procurement's complexity, changes, and strategic importance, Dominique Lebigot, CPO of LVMH Wines and Spirits, advocates readiness for AI, supplier ecosystems, and circular economies.
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Dec 02, 2024
Most industrial heat production (more than 20 percent of global energy consumption) is generated by fossil fuels. Heat electrification technologies can help decarbonize industry and support net zero.
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Dec 02, 2024
How tech leaders organize and manage teams, talent, IT architecture, and costs may dramatically shift in the next decade as a result of generative AI. Here's what to consider.
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Dec 02, 2024
Gen AI agents are starting to deliver breakthrough value, but only when companies figure out how to build and orchestrate hundreds of them.
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Nov 28, 2024
After an unpredictable several years, nongrocery retailers in Europe are seeking to uncover pockets of growth. To succeed, they will need to navigate differences across markets and retail categories.
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Nov 27, 2024
New research offers business and technology leaders insights into the age-old challenge of improving IT productivity.
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Nov 27, 2024
David Nothacker, co-founder and CEO of sennder, shares how the company weathered the ups and downs of the growth journey—and used them as a launchpad for accelerating growth.
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Nov 27, 2024
Money makes the world go round, but where did it come from? An award-winning geographer explains how he used data from every part of the world to visualize the development of finance over 5,000 years.
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Nov 27, 2024
Dutch businesses can embrace generative AI to speed up automation, increase productivity, and ease labor market tightness. What is needed to accelerate adoption and capture the benefits?
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Nov 27, 2024
As signs of economic stabilization emerge, our latest report in conjunction with Kantar finds that consumers across the region are prioritizing value while exploring new shopping formats and channels.
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Nov 27, 2024
Capital expenditures need to be deployed strategically across metals and mining projects critical for the energy transition. Intervening early and setting a clear focus can help avoid issues.
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Nov 26, 2024
After surging during the pandemic, diamond prices have reversed to multiyear lows. Proactive moves by players across the value chain can help ensure stability and longevity in the years to come.
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Nov 26, 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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Nov 26, 2024
By developing a compelling, proprietary narrative and a sustainable communications road map, leaders can foster deeper dialogues and more meaningful connections with a wide range of stakeholders.
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Nov 26, 2024
AI systems are powerful but often operate like "black boxes," shrouded in mystery. Here's how companies can shed some light and drive adoption of AI solutions that users trust and understand.
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Nov 26, 2024
Our November obituaries also include a visionary architect, a digital-arts innovator, and a Holocaust survivor whose story of tragedy and triumph became a New York Times bestseller.
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Nov 25, 2024
If the cement industry can accelerate adoption of supplementary cementitious materials, it could fuel decarbonization efforts while unlocking a new horizon of value creation.
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Nov 25, 2024
To corral its vast amount of knowledge and drive new levels of productivity, the firm embarked on a journey to develop its generative AI platform, "Lilli."
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Nov 22, 2024
Vince Tizzio, president and CEO of AXIS, shares how he has helped the company evolve while keeping customers, employees, and stakeholders in mind.
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Nov 22, 2024
Effective leaders continually adapt their priorities, roles, time, and energy practices to stay ahead of new realities. Here's why you need to do the same.
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Nov 22, 2024
Biotechs making their commercial debut can improve their launch success rate and overall financial performance by learning from successful first-time launchers.
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Nov 22, 2024
What's often missing from the conversation about getting to net-zero emissions is a recognition of the difficulty in transforming the complex physical assets underlying our current energy system — a system that has been optimized over centuries to deliver high performance, that is deeply embedded in the global economy, and that serves billions of people. McKinsey Global Institute Research has identified 25 significant technology and infrastructure challenges that need to be overcome. These relate not only to the development and deployment of low-emissions technologies, but also to the supply chains and underlying infrastructure that need to be transformed, write Mekala Krishnan, Chris Bradley, Humayun Tai, and Tiago Devesa in Harvard Business Review.
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Nov 22, 2024
Third-quarter GDP reports reveal a mixed global economy. China faces an economic slowdown; the United States sees growth; and the eurozone is stable. The IMF forecasts a slow but stable global trajectory into 2025.
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Nov 21, 2024
The upstream oil and gas sector alone could cut as much as 4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. But this will take worldwide cooperation among industry players and capital investors.
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Nov 21, 2024
Ten years of research reveals what's better, what's worse, and what all of us can do now to help more women advance—more quickly—at work.
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Nov 20, 2024
Wellness is about more than feeling good. It's a thriving business that is poised to keep growing.
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Nov 20, 2024
Complexity, COVID-19, and competition have upended supply chain organizations. They can reignite revenue growth and deepen resilience by deploying AI-powered digital twins.
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Nov 20, 2024
From molecule and materials discovery to new applications and customer acquisition, AI can create opportunities across a range of promising new use cases in chemicals.
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Nov 20, 2024
The driving force behind one of Türkiye's leading banking apps explains how an offshoot of the country's largest listed bank was able to outperform hundreds of competing fintechs.
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Nov 19, 2024
A behavioral scientist reveals how our tribal instincts can be harnessed to boost performance, mend fractured relationships, and even spark widespread cultural shifts.
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Nov 19, 2024
The personal property and casualty insurance industry grew in 2023, fueled by rate increases in developed markets. The opportunity now is to expand coverage to new markets and sectors.
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Nov 19, 2024
There are bright spots for growth in global life, retirement, and health insurance. But to combat stagnant demand, the industry needs to find new sources of growth beyond its core products.
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Nov 19, 2024
Profitable growth is increasingly hard to find. Commercial property and casualty insurers need to be deliberate about where and how they compete.
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Nov 19, 2024
Finding profitable growth is an imperative for the world's personal and commercial property and casualty insurers, while life carriers must adjust to changing consumer needs.
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Nov 19, 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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Nov 19, 2024
New research reveals what employees find fair, what motivates them to perform, and where many organizations go wrong when it comes to feedback, compensation, and annual ratings and reviews.
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Nov 18, 2024
Biodiversity is the multitude of diverse organisms across an ecosystem. It is essential for supporting the health and sustainability of all life on Earth.
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Nov 18, 2024
The global energy transition is entering a new phase. These ten McKinsey Explainers highlight what leaders need to know to grow through—and not just react to—the new climate era.
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Nov 18, 2024
Year-end review season is here. How can organizations deliver performance reviews that motivate employees and support their development?
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Nov 15, 2024
The latest update of McKinsey's Organizational Health Index offers some twists and surprises for leaders. See if you can identify the crucial markers of a healthy organization.
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Nov 15, 2024
Robert Chatwani, president of growth at Docusign, discusses how to drive sustainable revenue growth and brand love through product-led sales.
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Nov 15, 2024
Despite the momentum of recent years, the fact remains that the energy transition is only in its infancy. Roughly halfway through what has been called climate's decisive decade, and in the face of rising global uncertainties, it is time for a pragmatic reality check to understand where are we really, and what it will take to get the rest of the job done, write Chris Bradley, Mekala Krishnan, and Humayun Tai in Fortune.
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Nov 15, 2024
AI-powered solutions can unlock insights from previously inaccessible data and enable consumer engagement and personalization at an unprecedented scale, in turn lifting healthcare business outcomes.
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Nov 15, 2024
In recent discussions, COOs reflect on the need for an often-missing defined agenda that reflects the role's unique responsibilities. Here's how to start.
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Nov 15, 2024
Recent government stimulus measures and the annual Double 11 shopping festival have generated positive momentum in China's vast consumer market.
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Nov 15, 2024
The latest update of McKinsey's Organizational Health Index offers some twists and surprises for leaders. See if you can identify the crucial drivers of a healthy organization.
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Nov 14, 2024
AI guardrails help ensure that an organization's AI tools, and their application in the business, reflect the organization's standards, policies, and values.
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Nov 14, 2024
Former member of the European Parliament Marietje Schaake offers new ideas on how to promote more effective tech oversight and close a growing accountability gap.
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Nov 14, 2024
New technology means new challenges—and new solutions—for cybersecurity providers.
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Nov 14, 2024
A significant share of India's people and assets remain uninsured, presenting both challenges and opportunities for the country's insurance industry.
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Nov 13, 2024
A successful digital future depends on responsible use of AI. The EU AI Act marks a significant step in regulating AI systems and could serve as a blueprint for other jurisdictions.
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Nov 13, 2024
Most great CEOs rely on a set of guiding mindsets. This checklist helps them turn mindsets into practices that can steer their companies to great heights.
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Nov 13, 2024
Ascendum partnered with McKinsey and Salesforce to give service agents the capabilities and technology to work smarter and faster in addressing customer needs.
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Nov 12, 2024
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Nov 12, 2024
Governments often face more constraints in meeting their objectives than most private sector companies do. Adopting practices that enhance organizational health can help.
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Nov 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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Nov 12, 2024
Today's rapidly developing risk landscape demands a new, more nimble approach for insurance companies to assess and respond to risks, a function inherently in their DNA.
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Nov 12, 2024
Business leaders must go beyond mitigating geopolitical risks to seizing the opportunities presented by the new world order. Here's how.
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Nov 12, 2024
Next-generation operational excellence starts with lean principles, investing in people, and using technology for collaboration. McKinsey senior partners Kimberly Borden and Mike Perkins describe how.
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Nov 11, 2024
The global fashion industry faces economic uncertainty, a dynamic market, and consumer behavior shifts. Finding pockets of growth means navigating a complex maze.
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Nov 11, 2024
We asked five executives what's top of mind as they deploy funds from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program to close the digital divide in their states.
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Nov 11, 2024
Of the world's top 20 companies by market cap at the end of 2005, only four remained at the top as of November 2024. Most of the companies that had displaced the powerhouses of 2005 belonged to a unique category of industries that we call arenas of competition. Arenas have two defining characteristics: they capture an outsize share of the economy's growth and the market shares of the companies within them change hands at a much higher rate, writes Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.
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Nov 07, 2024
The oil and gas industry has recently seen strong financial performance and is refocusing on its core, but it still needs to find answers to drive growth post-2030.
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Nov 07, 2024
When generative AI tools do the heavy lifting, companies can optimize their product portfolios faster and more effectively.
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Nov 07, 2024
Chemical CFOs are tasked with driving shareholder returns in an era of rising costs. Answering five key questions can help balance spending with strategic initiatives and stakeholder returns.
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Nov 06, 2024
Financial institutions can unlock the productivity of their software engineering teams to significantly boost tech innovation without increasing IT budgets.
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Nov 06, 2024
The Fourth Industrial Revolution offers companies a path to sustainability and productivity through advanced technologies. Members of the Global Lighthouse Network demonstrate this potential.
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Nov 06, 2024
Research shows that organizations in the region have been quick to adopt generative AI, but very few are yet seeing much benefit. Those that are demonstrate what it takes.
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Nov 06, 2024
Natural climate solutions, or NCS, are nature-based actions that either reduce or sequester greenhouse gas emissions, helping to protect, restore, and manage nature to further global climate goals.
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Nov 06, 2024
Adobe's Varun Parmar discusses product-led growth and emphasizes that a great product should be intuitive, deliver immediate, tangible value to users, and be the primary driver of business growth.
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Nov 05, 2024
North America's power and natural gas markets are being remade. Players might benefit from paying attention to five trends and developing a suite of leading-edge capabilities.
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Nov 05, 2024
The growth of renewable-energy sources is making US power pricing more volatile. To reduce risk, energy players can incorporate flexible assets into their portfolios.
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Nov 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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Nov 05, 2024
In the face of challenges, Australian insurers can look to global peers for inspiration in raising their own productivity.
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Nov 05, 2024
Manufacturers of residential battery energy storage systems in Europe face competitive pressure from players in Asia—and they need to adjust their strategies to stay ahead.
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Nov 05, 2024
Economic upturns come and go, and cost optimization programs take an organization only so far. But active portfolio management is the underutilized key to creating the most value.
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Nov 04, 2024
Products from private brands are appealing to consumers in new ways. Retailers can follow this well-tested recipe to improve their private-brand offerings and gain market share.
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Nov 04, 2024
Showing vulnerability can build connections and trust. One place to start: create a ‘to be' list rather than a ‘to do' list.
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Nov 04, 2024
A new operating model can help the global commercial and defense shipbuilding industry address bottlenecks and ramp up production as demand continues to soar.
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Nov 04, 2024
Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa face high healthcare worker unemployment—while coping with a severe shortage of healthcare professionals. Five strategic shifts may help narrow the gap.
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Nov 04, 2024
How can the global commercial and defense maritime industry meet the recent spike in demand while saving time and costs? With a strategic process to redevelop their existing legacy sites and assets.
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Nov 04, 2024
As the global security context changes, government defense budgets are shifting. Shipbuilders could adjust their offerings in response to navies seeking to improve fleet capabilities and readiness.
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Nov 04, 2024
Tech veteran and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar discusses the positive potential of gen AI to change work, society, and democracy; how she is transforming the finance function; and the power of women founders.
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Nov 01, 2024
You're not imagining it: the past five years have taken a toll on human resources. Here's how leaders can help.
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Nov 01, 2024
You're not imagining it: the past five years have taken a toll on human resources. Here's how leaders can help.
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Nov 01, 2024
This year, the holiday shopping season is longer than ever. But for consumer businesses to drive sales in the final stretch, they'll need to recalibrate their sales strategies and make operational adjustments to meet shoppers' evolving needs.
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Nov 01, 2024
Packaging and paper companies recognize the potential for generative AI to drive revenue and margin growth. Many have already started on this journey.
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Nov 01, 2024
Our latest analysis of the aviation value chain shows many subsectors performing ahead of 2019 levels.
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Oct 31, 2024
A corporation with multiple businesses should not be valued less than the sum of its parts—so long as those parts perform in line with their peers and investors have the transparency they need.
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