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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 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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 14, 2024
New technology means new challenges—and new solutions—for cybersecurity providers.
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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
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 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 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 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
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
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
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 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 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 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 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 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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Our latest analysis of the aviation value chain shows many subsectors performing ahead of 2019 levels.
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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
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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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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Oct 31, 2024
Creating effective teams depends on multiple factors, including high levels of trust and communication, and understanding team context. A new approach helps elevate performance and create value.
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Oct 31, 2024
Before his death in 2020, extensive biographies of civil rights icon John Lewis did not exist. A new biography sheds light on this dynamic leader and congressman and explains why his message still resonates.
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Oct 31, 2024
Our October obituaries also include a staunch advocate for older adults, a surgical innovator, and an award-winning photographer who enabled many to see underserved communities through a new lens.
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Oct 31, 2024
You've heard of Black Friday. But today's consumers increasingly shop for trips on Travel Tuesday. How can travel industry players benefit from this trend?
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Oct 30, 2024
After several challenging years, South Africa's grocery market appears to be turning a corner. What are the implications for grocery players?
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Oct 30, 2024
After several challenging years, South Africa's grocery market appears to be turning a corner. What are the implications for grocery players?
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Oct 30, 2024
Daniel Kahneman, the psychologist whose findings helped launch behavioral economics, passed away this March. The encouraging words he shared with me offer good news for organizations.
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Oct 30, 2024
Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, is a process applied to large language models to make their outputs more relevant for the end user.
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Oct 30, 2024
Many small enterprises stood in the path of two recent US hurricanes. How many firms and workers were put at risk, and which sectors could feel the greatest impact?
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Oct 30, 2024
Almost six in 10 U.S. workers are employed by a micro, small, or medium-sized enterprise (MSME), a firm with up to 499 employees. For the sake of local economies, their employees, and the social fabric of our communities, getting small businesses back on their feet after a disaster like Hurricane Helene or Hurricane Milton should be a high priority — and big businesses have a critical role to play. They can start with what they know best — business — and take actions to help their smaller counterparts recover, such as stretching out payment terms or being flexible on contract provisions. They can also look outside their own corporate depth chart to provide expert support, facilities, broadband access, or other actions to restore morale and normalcy in impacted communities. Finally, they can share their disaster preparedness playbooks, to help everyone prepare for the next time — because disasters like Hurricanes Helene and Milton aren't going away, writes Olivia White, Kanmani Chockalingam, Adi Kumar, and Daniel Stephens in Harvard Business Review.
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Oct 30, 2024
Europe's tech IPO market can make strategic adjustments for growth and sustainability.
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Oct 30, 2024
Many postal companies are still anchored to historical mail-plus-parcel business models. What could they do to stay competitive and profitable alongside pure parcel providers in the long term?
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Oct 29, 2024
The CEO and founder of a global medtech company is on a mission to transform the healthcare industry's approach to research, delivery, and care.
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Oct 29, 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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Oct 29, 2024
Soaring demand for AI-ready data centers offers many opportunities for companies and investors across the value chain. How quickly they grasp them could determine the pace at which AI is deployed.
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Oct 29, 2024
Struggling with employee retention? A business school professor explains why treating employees like customers is crucial to improving the employee experience—and your bottom line.
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Oct 28, 2024
Marketing leaders must propel growth while navigating increased complexity and scope. A new global survey in consumer marketing reveals the need for a more connected and agile way of working.
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Oct 28, 2024
As ubiquitous and essential components of modern life, chips are a dominant concern for governments and business leaders across industries.
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Oct 28, 2024
As ubiquitous and essential components of modern life, chips are a dominant concern for governments and business leaders across industries.
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Oct 28, 2024
As more companies consider private credit as a financing option, the opportunities for investors are expanding. This episode of Deal Volume describes this asset class and its potential.
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Oct 25, 2024
Since Tufan Erginbilgiç took the helm of the iconic brand, its share price has surged. Profits have more than doubled. How he did it is a case study in the art of corporate transformation.
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Oct 25, 2024
From semiconductors to cell phones to generative AI, here are 25 breakthroughs that changed business forever.
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Oct 24, 2024
Despite technological and geopolitical turmoil, the highest-performing UK companies have created the conditions they need to realize their ambitions for growth. Here's what they're doing.
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Oct 24, 2024
With capital project leaders expected to raise spending, McKinsey's senior partner Ishaan Nangia and partner Jae Hoon Jung describe how companies blend tech and talent to maximize returns.
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Oct 24, 2024
New analysis suggests that much of Europe's anticipated electricity demand growth may not materialize, with important implications for the energy transition and industrial competitiveness.
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Oct 24, 2024
The rise of AI is driving data center demand and shifting power market dynamics. With European demand predicted to more than triple by 2030, significant investments are needed to realize this growth.
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Oct 24, 2024
More productive MSMEs would help North Carolina foster the sustainable and inclusive economy it wants to be. And it would be good for business, too, write David Pralong and Kevin Russell in Charlotte Business Journal.
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Oct 24, 2024
From 2005 to 2020, a relatively small number of industries—from cloud services to e-commerce to consumer internet to biopharmaceuticals-reshaped the global economy, radically changing businesses and the way we live. These transformative industries,12 in all, belong to a special category we call "arenas of competition." They are defined by two characteristics: extraordinary growth and exceptional dynamism or shifts in market shares, which signal a new era of competition and signify that new technologies and business models are in play. Business leaders and investors need to be able to recognize this pattern and anticipate how a remade playing field will affect them, write Chris Bradley and Michael Birshan in Fortune.
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Oct 23, 2024
Investors, boards, and management teams are looking for banks to demonstrate differential value from technology. Our research provides a framework to link technology investments to value creation.
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Oct 23, 2024
The head of Europe's largest private university group believes that AI technologies are critical to advancing the institution's mission of flexible, personalized higher education.
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Oct 23, 2024
Generative AI is already adding value for corporate and business functions. Here's how it could add more.
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Oct 23, 2024
Feeling undervalued and overworked, especially amid year-end performance reviews, might be a signal it's time to leave. Learn from an expert whether it's a temporary slump or time for a new beginning.
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Oct 23, 2024
A huge shift of personal financial assets to digital wealth managers in Asia-Pacific is on the horizon. Our latest insights reveal how banks and WealthTechs are taking action.
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Oct 23, 2024
Arenas are industries that transform the business landscape. Eighteen future arenas could reshape the global economy and generate $29 trillion to $48 trillion in revenues by 2040.
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Oct 22, 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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Oct 22, 2024
Green hydrogen could play a key role in the energy transition, and Spain is well-placed to take a leading position.
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Oct 22, 2024
Complicated times demand great leaders. Here's an overview of traits and practices required to succeed as a leader today and a look at the factory model that can help aspiring managers ascend.
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Oct 22, 2024
Companies are creating meaningful growth by developing new ventures. Those with the most mature capabilities are growing quickly and can show the way for companies that are just beginning.
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