McKinsey’s Global Insurance Report 2025, digital twins, year-end reviews, and more: The Weekend Read

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As we wrap up the workweek, take a breather and dive into the week’s big reads on global insurance, digital twins, year-end reviews, and more.

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The world’s insurers are enduring a particularly volatile age, but McKinsey’s Global Insurance Report 2025 finds significant ground for optimism. Be sure to download the full report by Elixabete Larrea Tamayo , Holger Wilms , Bernhard Kotanko , Pierre-Ignace Bernard , Ramnath Balasubramanian , and coauthors.

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AI-powered digital twins could help supply chains overcome unexpected disruptions—which could reignite revenue growth and deepen resilience for organizations, write Alberto Oca , Lauren O’Neil, Alex Cosmas , Cenk Tunasar , and Ketan Shah .

5 key tenets for success

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Year-end review season is here. How can organizations deliver performance reviews that motivate employees and support their development? Find out more on the latest Five Fifty from McKinsey Quarterly.

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Yashaswi Gautam and coauthors explore AI opportunities across a range of promising new use cases in chemicals.

See the possibilities

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34-Across: With 37-Across, deteriorating ... and what the long answers are doing vis-à-vis the bracketed titles in their clues

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AI-powered digital twins could help supply chains overcome unexpected disruptions—which could reignite revenue growth and deepen resilience for organizations, write Alberto Oca, Lauren O’Neil, Alex Cosmas, Cenk Tunasar, and Ketan Shah.﻿

Year-end review season is here. How can organizations deliver performance reviews that motivate employees and support their development? Find out more on the latest Five Fifty from McKinsey Quarterly.﻿

Yashaswi Gautam and coauthors explore AI opportunities across a range of promising new use cases in chemicals.﻿

﻿Author Talks: Making tech work for us