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The CEO as elite athlete: What business leaders can learn from modern sports
The role is harder than ever, requiring new habits of mind, body, and spirit.
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How top performers use innovation to grow within and beyond the core
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While innovation is critical to all companies’ growth, the most successful organizations use it to both expand their lead...
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Davos 2025: CEOs are excited to go on offense
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Thousands of leaders joined the world’s most pressing debates at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. Here’s...
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How AI is transforming strategy development
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Artificial intelligence is set to revolutionize strategy activities. But as AI adoption spreads, strategists will need proprietary...
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Achieving growth: Putting leadership mindsets and behaviors into action
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Growth requires the right mix of outlook, strategy, and capabilities. Top leaders achieve their goals by turning five mindsets...
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How the best CEOs build lasting stakeholder relationships
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By developing a compelling, proprietary narrative and a sustainable communications road map, leaders can foster deeper dialogues...
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Reinventing Rolls-Royce: A conversation with CEO Tufan Erginbilgiç
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Since Tufan Erginbilgiç took the helm of the iconic brand, its share price has surged. Profits have more than doubled. How he...
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The transformation imperative for midcap companies
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Transformations, when done right, can enable midmarket companies to unleash their full potential.
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Six strategies for growth outperformance
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In this conversation, three experts discuss the recipe for fostering growth in today’s uncertain economic climate.
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Why strategists should embrace imperfection
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In a world of rapid change, looking for certainty can obscure opportunity. Taking smaller yet bold steps provides a more sure-footed...
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Palo Alto Networks CFO on AI, cybersecurity, and the finance leader’s mandate
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Dipak Golechha explains why he sees the current business environment as a ‘return to sense and sensibility’ for finance...
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The seasons of the CFO
The CFO role has never been harder. Each phase of a CFO's career requires unique skills. Follow us as we interview former CFOs...
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McKinsey on Finance 20th anniversary
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CEO imperatives in Asia’s new era
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As the continent’s influence on the world stage grows, Asian companies have a unique opportunity to lead that progress....
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Economic conditions outlook, December 2024
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A month after the US elections, potential changes to trade relationships and other policies are top of mind for executives. Expectations...
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Global Private Markets Report 2025: Private equity emerging from the fog
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Global uncertainties remained in 2024, but the path forward for private equity became clearer, with a rebound in dealmaking and...
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Creating a modernized defense technology frontier
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Public and private investment dollars are fueling defense innovation. The prize? A $250 billion opportunity to build a modernized...
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Economic mobility: Making lives better now—and for the long term
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Ryan Rippel, founding director of the Gates Foundation’s Economic Mobility and Opportunity Strategy, talks about helping people...
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Fostering better decisions through holistic ROI estimates
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Net present value is the bedrock of ROI estimates, but adding other factors to the analyses can help business leaders see how...
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Gain transformation momentum early by optimizing working capital
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Transformations can take a long time to show results, but if organizations optimize their working capital early on, they can...
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Closing the women’s health gap: Biopharma’s untapped opportunity
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Most top pharma companies derive more than 60 percent of their revenue from therapies for diseases that affect women uniquely,...
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Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, December 2024
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The year ends with political shifts and mixed markets: European equities are flat; US stocks are down. Global interest rates...
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Resilience pulse check: Harnessing collaboration to navigate a volatile world
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We continue to learn that we operate in a world in which we must expect the unexpected, yet companies feel unprepared to face...
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Europe in the intelligent age: From ideas to action
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Strategic focus and private sector–led lighthouse initiatives can change the Old Continent’s trajectory—if...