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Feb 26, 2026
Just about one in seven companies has outperformed in the past five years. This latest installment of our landmark series for CEOs highlights business growth strategies that work.
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Feb 26, 2026
As millions of baby boomers retire, the United States is on the brink of an unprecedented wave of small-business ownership transitions—posing challenges for communities but also opening the door to economic renewal.
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Feb 25, 2026
Solid market fundamentals and significant value creation opportunities make the US home services market highly attractive to investors.
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Feb 25, 2026
A bout of inflation stabilised the United Kingdom's unsustainably elevated balance sheet—at a large cost to households. Now is the time to rebuild for productivity and growth.
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Feb 25, 2026
Consumer confidence in the Middle East and North Africa is rising, but retail momentum is not. Ten trends can help grocers navigate this paradox, gain granular insights, and identify areas for growth.
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Feb 25, 2026
Egypt can build on its strong fundamentals and natural advantages to boost hard currency, unlocking up to $17 billion annually by 2035 with a strategic focus on 11 key growth sectors.
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Feb 24, 2026
The outlook for the home and hygiene market is cooling. How can companies usher in the next wave of value creation?
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Feb 24, 2026
Overall global economic is sentiment improving, with businesses more positive about future growth in line with the IMF's upward growth revisions; several central banks cut interest rates in December.
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Feb 24, 2026
A century ago, in 1925, the world was a tougher place. Lives were shorter, incomes lower, and opportunity far narrower. Over the past 100 years, human ingenuity and economic development have transformed daily life in ways that would have been unimaginable to our great-grandparents. The average person today lives decades longer, and billions of people have risen out of poverty, writes Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.
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Feb 24, 2026
The duo behind Monsam Portable Sinks shares why buying an existing company beat starting from scratch—and what they've learned along the way.
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Feb 24, 2026
Tanuj Kapilashrami, Standard Chartered's chief strategy and talent officer, explains how the global bank is rethinking work and culture while embracing AI.
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Feb 24, 2026
Japan's manufacturing companies could transform a tradition of service excellence at home into a source of global competitive advantage.
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Feb 24, 2026
Philip Reeves, the founding partner of Apis & Heritage Capital Partners, explains how employee ownership can strengthen businesses, create wealth, and foster more equitable ownership transfers.
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Feb 23, 2026
Kevin Mahoney, CEO of University of Pennsylvania Health System, discusses academic medical centers' vital role in the community and how they can further improve care and physician experiences.
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Feb 23, 2026
By using AI and automation to redesign reverse logistics, retailers can convert $200 billion in annual costs into business value.
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Feb 23, 2026
An adoption gap is growing in the customer care space as leading organizations begin to see impact from AI across customer experience, cost reduction, and revenue generation.
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Feb 23, 2026
Stronger brains mean healthier people and more resilient communities, companies, and economies. Investing in brain capital can reduce the burden of brain health conditions and boost global growth.
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Feb 20, 2026
Citi moves $2,000 trillion a year for 6,000 multinationals. No wonder its CEO has a provocative global perspective.
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Feb 20, 2026
What if fewer workdays led to higher productivity? Journalist Jared Lindzon explains the personal, organizational, and economic benefits of rethinking global workplace norms.
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Feb 20, 2026
India's online retailers, many of which are small businesses, are looking for flexible, direct, and lower-cost ways to reach consumers, and the direct-to-consumer channel is set for growth.
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Feb 19, 2026
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Feb 19, 2026
Restoring consumer trust starts with delivering on the brand—how healthcare organizations show up internally and externally. Those using AI well enable more effective, personal, and transparent healthcare and outsize value.
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Feb 19, 2026
Quantum computing is delivering its first real-world benefits in financial services, realizing early business value today.
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Feb 19, 2026
Quantum computing is poised to substantially improve computational capabilities in the chemicals value chain. Preparing now could help companies gain a significant competitive edge.
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Feb 19, 2026
Explore how improving population health could deliver meaningful gains in healthy life and economic performance across countries.
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Feb 19, 2026
The State of Organizations 2026 report highlights sharper focus on performance at a time of tech innovation, economic disruption, and changing workforce structures.
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Feb 19, 2026
Too many growth strategies stall because leaders don't treat them with the same rigor they apply to other long-term investments. Here's how to avoid that trap.
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Feb 18, 2026
Have you ever considered exactly how much money an airline makes from a single flight?
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Feb 18, 2026
Migrating customers to fiber networks can generate substantial benefits, but telecom operators would need to address several challenges to capture this value.
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Feb 18, 2026
The packaging industry has taken action on machine learning and gen AI. In commercial excellence, targeted use of gen AI could enhance pipeline confidence, improve conversion, and sustain growth.
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Feb 18, 2026
Blockchain data indicate large transaction volumes for stablecoins, often cited in trillions of dollars, but most of this activity isn't tied to real-world payments. Here's what the data really show.
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Feb 18, 2026
The data center industry's growth rate is pushing teams to innovate. Its tool kit offers lessons for others.
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Feb 18, 2026
Misperceptions about the reach and durability of competitive advantage are hurting many companies' profits. Five rules can help organizations maximize their edge over peers.
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Feb 18, 2026
Bridget McCormack, president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association, explains her organization's revolutionary adoption of a native-AI approach.
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Feb 18, 2026
Three McKinsey experts explain what really drives valuation—and where leaders often get it wrong.
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Feb 18, 2026
Human societies have long found ingenious ways to cope with extreme weather; and India is no exception, write Mekala Krishnan and Kanmani Chockalingam in Live Mint.
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Feb 17, 2026
Glenn Fogel explains how AI, personalization, and the "connected trip" could redefine value for travelers.
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Feb 17, 2026
Using a multipronged approach, chief risk officers can get a better grip on risk and build the strategic risk function of the future.
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Feb 17, 2026
Poor health imposes a heavy human and economic toll. Scaling proven interventions could add nine healthy years to life and deliver $12.5 trillion in global economic gains by 2050.
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Feb 13, 2026
Travel, logistics, and infrastructure M&A rebounded strongly, driven primarily by large transactions amid lasting uncertainty from tariffs and geopolitical shocks.
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Feb 13, 2026
Mergers represent a rare opportunity to transform an organization's operating model to achieve strategic objectives and deliver promised value. That requires a thoughtful, leader-driven process.
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Feb 13, 2026
Rather than using M&A to focus on expansion and diversification into new value pools, many US healthcare players are deploying it to access new capabilities and enhance existing assets.
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Feb 13, 2026
Value derived from cost, capital, and revenue synergies can give companies a competitive edge to counter the premium prices financial investors often offer.
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Feb 13, 2026
Multiple forces are converging to create a favorable environment for M&A activity involving biopharmaceutical, medtech, and life-sciences-services companies.
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Feb 13, 2026
Carriers and brokers are recalibrating their portfolios, consolidating their capabilities, and redefining where expansion could deliver genuine strategic and financial advantage.
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Feb 13, 2026
Private capital has reemerged as a critical driver of M&A.
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Feb 13, 2026
AI investment isn't just fueling innovation; it's reshaping competitive dynamics and catalyzing a new wave of strategic M&A across the global tech landscape.
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Feb 13, 2026
Tech, media, and telecom players are revisiting their M&A strategies and reshaping their deal rationales to address significant structural, competitive, and technological shifts.
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Feb 13, 2026
Geopolitical disruption, margin compression, focus on vertical integration, adoption of AI, and other trends have resulted in increased deal value within advanced industries and its subsectors.
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Feb 13, 2026
Five lessons can help leaders build two stronger companies.
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Feb 13, 2026
After dealmaking slowed momentarily in early 2025, global M&A activity quickly assumed a grand scale—delivering big gains for the year—with momentum continuing.
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Feb 13, 2026
Changing consumer tastes and sentiment are spurring consumer packaged goods companies to use M&A to refocus efforts, redirect capital, and reignite growth.
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Feb 13, 2026
The rapidly shifting geopolitical situation has accelerated investment in and demand for military technologies and other defense-related assets.
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Feb 13, 2026
Megadeals, joint ventures, and rising private equity activity provided momentum in a year of growth.
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Feb 13, 2026
Given the intensity and speed of change in M&A, leaders must prepare to communicate faster and more effectively.
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Feb 13, 2026
Explore how financial services M&A is recovering for banks, fintech companies, and asset managers, shaping transactions and industry transformation.
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Feb 13, 2026
The most experienced acquirers continue to outpace competitors, and their approach can guide companies with less extensive—or rusty—M&A capabilities.
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Feb 12, 2026
In the face of modern warfare, a multidomain defense system is vital—necessitating a move from a vertically integrated approach to modular systems within the future defense tech stack.
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Feb 12, 2026
Current European defense acquisition systems are no longer effective in the uncertain geopolitical landscape. Fundamental reform is needed for quick decisions, rapid deployment, and sustainable scale.
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Feb 12, 2026
The McKinsey European Defense Dashboard presented here provides a comprehensive set of metrics to track the evolving defense posture of European NATO countries.
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Feb 12, 2026
By making targeted improvements to existing US defense industrial base operations, manufacturers could cut production ramp-up times in half and double new capital efficiency.
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Feb 12, 2026
Supply chain consolidation could unlock €9 billion in annual run-rate cost synergies, while boosting interoperability and strategic resilience.
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Feb 12, 2026
Europe can tackle fragmentation by collaborating on early tech maturation, practical approaches, and a winning team mindset, while executing on time, at pace, and at sustainable cost.
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Feb 11, 2026
This year's dominant themes include agentic AI, the growth of the resale market, the quest for operational efficiency, and strategic renewal in the luxury sector.
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Feb 10, 2026
AI adoption in Southeast Asia is at an inflection point—moving rapidly from exploration to deployment. With strong digital foundations, tech-savvy enterprises, and a young, connected population, the region's major economies are accelerating toward global competitiveness.
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Feb 10, 2026
Private equity weather has improved, revealing more demanding, technical ground. Here's what our analyses indicate for dealmakers, operators, fundraisers, and LPs as they look to the road ahead.
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Feb 09, 2026
Our Global Tech Agenda 2026 shows that top CIOs are rewiring their companies for growth, deploying agentic AI and data monetization to create measurable business value.
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Feb 09, 2026
Our Global Tech Agenda 2026 shows that top CIOs are rewiring their companies for growth, deploying agentic AI and data monetization to create measurable business value.
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Feb 09, 2026
Nathaniel Whittemore, podcaster and founder and CEO of the AI enablement platform, Superintelligent, shares his thoughts on how the technology can be adopted more easily.
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Feb 06, 2026
Why innovation, like the Olympics, is won in training—not just on competition day.
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Feb 06, 2026
Over the past century, economic growth has delivered higher incomes and longer lives, while empowering millions of people. Looking to the future, a world where everyone can live securely and with options - as opposed to just subsisting - is within reach, but will require emerging economies to continue expanding, write Marc Canal Noguer, Nick Leung, and Chris Bradley in Project Syndicate.
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Feb 06, 2026
As agentic AI escapes pilot purgatory, more businesses are bringing best-in-class AI capabilities into their call centers—transforming operations and fundamentally improving customer experiences.
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Feb 05, 2026
Our latest obituaries also include a plastics magnate, a probiotic pioneer, and an award-winning architect whose work defied convention—and gravity.
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Feb 05, 2026
The rise of GLP-1 drugs is shifting the discussion of obesity from an intractable issue to a treatable medical condition—inspiring innovation across a range of industries and representing trillions in potential economic uplift.
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Feb 05, 2026
Agentic AI is changing what the procurement function can achieve—shifting procurement's focus from transaction tasks to a strategic driver of growth, sustainability, and resilience.
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Feb 04, 2026
The insurance ecosystem is ripe for technological disruption. For private investors, the spread of AI will create uneven opportunities across subsectors.
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Feb 04, 2026
Is AI a threat—or the start of a new renaissance? A former OpenAI executive shares why closing the adoption gap could unlock a new era of human progress.
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Feb 03, 2026
Stressed brains often default to cognitive heuristics. Here's how to avoid the trap.
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Feb 03, 2026
The Philippines has proven its resilience. The next step is relevance—intensifying productivity, exports, and skills development to realize its potential.
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Feb 03, 2026
Davos headlines this year have focused on geopolitical shocks and a retreat from multilateralism, and who benefits from the next phase of growth—and who risks being left behind, writes Shelly Stewart III in Forbes.
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Feb 03, 2026
A thoughtful CEO succession plan in a family-owned business can both protect the family's vision and achieve institutional renewal.
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Feb 02, 2026
As geopolitical and trade headwinds redefine global energy flows, buyers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are increasingly prioritizing flexibility to manage risk and seize new opportunities.
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Jan 30, 2026
Amazon Web Services Managing Director Tanuja Randery discusses the speed of AI adoption in Europe and what it will take to accelerate.
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Jan 30, 2026
The decline in official development assistance highlights the fragility of Africa's fiscal model and offers an opportunity for course correction. Four archetype pathways can help stakeholders sequence practical and relevant reforms to mobilize and manage resources and build more resilient public finance systems.
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Jan 30, 2026
Top economic performers understand their competitive advantage at more granular levels than their peers and use it to derisk and help accelerate growth.
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Jan 29, 2026
You might be doing well at work. But are you doing what's right for you?
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Jan 29, 2026
As AI reshapes software development, how can companies build trust and deploy AI at scale? Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar shares his perspective.
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Jan 29, 2026
In five years, Krishna has revived the once-stagnant company. With AI and quantum, he sees lots of opportunity ahead.
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Jan 29, 2026
In the face of recent financial challenges, US retail pharmacies may find relief through cost-based reimbursement models.
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Jan 29, 2026
Over the next decade, the convergence of AI, demographic change, and evolving client trust will challenge wealth managers to reinvent how they compete and serve clients.
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Jan 28, 2026
Sharpen your problem-solving skills with the McKinsey Quarterly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind and is built around a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find.
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Jan 28, 2026
Despite an extraordinary economic payoff — every $1 spent on climate adaptation avoids up to $7 in damages — the world is spending less than half of what is needed, leaving billions of people unprotected, write Annabel Farr, Mekala Krishnan, and Olivia White in Devex.
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Jan 28, 2026
What drives an exceptional company culture? The former CEO of Royal Caribbean explains how a focus on metrics, risk-taking, and the organization's North Star can translate into excellent customer—and employee—experiences.
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Jan 28, 2026
Imagine even the poorest country in the world achieving the prosperity and quality of life of today's Switzerland—by 2100? In these turbulent times, it seems crazy, doesn't it? But it is possible, write Chris Bradley, Nick Leung, and Sven Smit in The Wall Street Journal.
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Jan 28, 2026
Takeaways from leaders on the ground on topics including geopolitics, European competitiveness, AI, and more.
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Jan 28, 2026
Agentic AI is increasingly a part of shopping, but not all transactions will be automated in the same way. Here's what agents will handle—and the situations that will call for human involvement.
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Jan 27, 2026
Two years into a strategic reset, CEO Laurent Kleitman outlines how the brand plans to expand its luxury hotel offerings both geographically and conceptually—without losing its quality of service.
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Jan 26, 2026
A winning strategy requires the right operating model. But many corporate operating model transformations aren't paying off. Here's how companies can help ensure their models deliver.
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Jan 26, 2026
Disruptor-led growth is reshaping nearly every CPG category. Five disruption archetypes—and six defining traits of disruptor brands—offer lessons for incumbents seeking to compete.
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Jan 23, 2026
Industry leaders are questioning how AI could change what content is made and how it is produced. Our research indicates three potential industry outcomes beyond disrupting the content supply chain.
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