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At 250, sustaining America’s competitive edge

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America’s history of reinvention holds compelling lessons as the nation confronts a future of immense if uncertain opportunity
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Six breakthrough business models reshaping global growth
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Six business models piloted in Asia offer lessons for global leaders in any market—and just might be the key to the next wave of sustainable growth.
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Interview
A taste of what’s next: Perspectives on the future of restaurants
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Automated kitchens, AI-powered hyperpersonalization, and “unbundled” formats are accelerating restaurant reinvention.
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Explainers
What is sovereign AI?
Three McKinsey experts explain what sovereign AI really means—and why control over the AI stack is becoming a strategic priority...
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Lives & Legacies
A turnaround CEO, a bond market virtuoso, and a champion of human visibility
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Anchoring maritime talent
Week in Charts
Anchoring maritime talent
The US shipbuilding industry faces a significant labor gap, requiring an additional 200,000 to 250,000 maritime employees over...
Inspired for business growth: How five companies beat the market
Themes
Accelerating growth: The decisions that separate leaders from the rest
Growth is a strategic imperative that separates market leaders from the rest. Yet sustained value creation remains rare: Just...
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Our Latest Survey Research

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How top economic performers lean into their competitive advantage to guide their strategy

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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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Interviews

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Podcast - The McKinsey Podcast

Trust in the age of agents

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Agentic AI is here—and that means AI systems are starting to make decisions and take action autonomously. To deliver on AI’s value, leaders need to reckon with new risks.
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Podcast

The CFO as growth leader: A conversation with Levi’s Harmit Singh

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Levi Strauss & Company’s chief financial and growth officer, Harmit Singh, discusses growth, transformation, and the “Magic of the And.”
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Interview

Rising together: Anand Mahindra’s creative philosophy

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Chairman of Mahindra Group, Anand Mahindra, discusses how he transformed his family’s small steel trading company into a leading global, multibusiness group headquartered in India.
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Interview

Eos Ventures sees opportunity in the insurance sector’s complexity

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Galen Shaffer, principal at Eos Ventures, says regulation and fragmentation make the insurance industry fertile ground for innovation and investment.
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Interview

Dino Mavrookas on shipbuilding’s autonomous future

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Saronic Technologies’ autonomous surface vessels are ushering in a new era for maritime in the United States. Cofounder and CEO Dino Mavrookas discusses the company’s mission and approach.
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How Danone is reinventing FMCG operations

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Chief Operations Officer Vikram Agarwal explains how AI is helping the food and beverage company anticipate demand, build capacity, and improve performance—putting operations “at the center of growth.”
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Podcast

Talking with Jeremy Fox-Geen, CFO of Circle

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The blockchain-based open infrastructure provider and stablecoin issuer seeks to create a new internet financial system.
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McKinsey on Books

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Author Talks: How capitalism became a worldwide revolution
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The history of capitalism is longer and more global than people may realize. Historian Sven Beckert explains how its evolution...
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, 8th edition
At the crossroads of corporate strategy and finance lies valuation. This book enables everyone, from the budding professional...
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Rewired, second edition
This updated edition offers brand-new insights into cutting-edge AI solutions—and what it takes to implement them—as...
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New from the Quarterly

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McKinsey Quarterly: Digital Edition
Agentic AI is such a powerful force that companies are rethinking the very nature of the corporation. What’s coming? A hybrid...
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Explore previous digital issues of the McKinsey Quarterly—on gen AI, productivity, growth, and more. All are available with a...

McKinsey Institutes

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The Great Ownership Transfer: A new era of business stewardship
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As millions of baby boomers retire, the United States is on the brink of an unprecedented wave of small-business ownership transitions—posing...
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The health of nations: The return to better health, by country
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Explore how improving population health could deliver meaningful gains in healthy life and economic performance across countries....
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Interview - MGI Research
Pulling off another century of human progress
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Five of the authors of the McKinsey Global Institute’s new book talk about writing a new narrative of progress.
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Brainteasers

The McKinsey Crossword: Quarterly report | No. 265
The McKinsey Crossword: Quarterly report | No. 265
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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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Data Points
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