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At leading consumer companies, packaging decisions enable margin and revenue gains through improved customer experience and operational excellence. Five approaches should be on the C-suite’s agenda.
Many companies are integrating gen AI into workflows, but too few have reached enterprise-wide adoption. Hear more about how they can change this trend.
Fermented ingredients could alter the food landscape faster than once thought. However, new business models are needed for the $100 billion to $150 billion opportunity in fermented novel proteins.
Generative AI (gen AI) is transforming aftermarket and field services, offering new ways to boost efficiency and enhance customer experience. Here’s how to make it pay.
Productivity in the banking sector has stalled. Here are the tools and techniques to achieve lasting change.
The remanufacturing market unlocks opportunity across sectors for higher margins, affordability, and supply chain resilience.
The Swedish payments veteran talks about using the power of open banking and account-to-account payments to remove friction from commerce and money movement.
Organizations are beginning to create the structures and processes that lead to meaningful value from gen AI. While still in early days, companies are redesigning workflows, elevating governance, and mitigating more risks.
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.
State and local leaders are well positioned to help water and wastewater utilities solve challenges in financial health, infrastructure resilience, economic development, and lives and livelihoods.
Despite ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, the future of operations in 2025 is promising. Companies that lean into tech, cross-functional collaboration, and curiosity can power up productivity.
With a legacy spanning nearly two centuries, Otis Worldwide continues to evolve. CEO Judy Marks discusses how she’s preparing the company for the next wave of technological and geopolitical changes.
Most promising mobility start-ups fizzle out before they can scale their operations. With billions of dollars in investment at stake, they need a better path to growth.
Europe’s automotive industry has been a cornerstone of the region’s economy, but disruptions have challenged its leadership. How can the European industry restore its competitive edge?
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is grabbing a lot of headlines, but let’s look beyond the latest debates to understand some labor market dynamics that can help employers hire and retain talent to meet business needs. New research from the McKinsey Global Institute compares women’s and men’s work experiences to better understand the tough trade-offs at play in the world of work, writes Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.
About 4.7 billion people are below the “economic empowerment line” – meaning they can’t afford the daily basics essential for a decent quality of life. The problem is concentrated in lower- and middle-income economies, but about 270 million live in high-income economies, surrounded by prosperity. While governments are key to reducing poverty and raising living standards, the private sector can tailor initiatives to economically empower more people, write Kweilin Ellingrud and Kevin Russell in World Economic Forum.
The headlines are consistent: The gender pay gap has narrowed, but American women who work full time still make only 84 cents for every dollar men do. That’s certainly better than at the turn of the century—when it was 77 cents—but far short of parity. So, is this proof of continuing workplace discrimination? Not so much, says new research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), write Anu Madgavkar and Sven Smit in Fortune.
With their working-age populations shrinking, many emerging economies are set to experience the same demographic problems plaguing developed countries. They must act now to prepare for the moment when their demographic dividend fades and the burden of supporting an older population becomes unavoidable, write Anu Madgavkar and Marc Canal Noguer in Project Syndicate.
US consumers have become more active in their healthcare decisions and are seeking engagement from healthcare organizations. Addressing these trends can improve healthcare businesses’ results.
After ten years of sustained, continuous improvement, a new set of sophisticated challenges led SQM to merge operational excellence with innovative technology. The result: a performance breakthrough.
Companies are getting practical about how to create value from gen AI—while 5G, satellites, and innovations in phone design also take center stage.
The world needs better residential solutions for the aging. Three innovations may hold the key to truly golden years.
The head of the North American steel company talks about its wide-ranging business strategy—and the company culture that took him from the plant floor to CEO over his 28 years at the company.
In this ever-evolving region, 18 arenas of competition will present challenges and opportunities that determine the future of New York.
The Climate Transition Impact Framework (C-TIF) can help decision makers compare the potential socioeconomic impacts of different climate action pathways.
A self-driving car, or autonomous vehicle, is a type of vehicle that can operate with little or no direct input from humans.
While low- and middle-income countries often focus on manufacturing to propel economic growth, services can and should play a greater role.
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.
Pharmaceutical giant GSK’s global head of AI and machine learning describes how these emerging technologies are reshaping drug development and organizational processes.
While the sporting goods industry has persevered over the past year, slowing growth forecasts are compelling executives to focus equally on revenue growth and productivity improvements.
E&C firms that embrace a strategic and methodological approach to M&A can be better positioned to capture the full value from upcoming transactions over the next decade.
The total cost of ownership for zero-emission trucks remains significantly higher than for internal combustion engine ones. Closing this gap could boost the transition to zero-emission truck fleets.
Angela F. Williams, president and CEO of United Way Worldwide, discusses how to serve communities through collaboration and partnerships with the private and public sectors.
Amid explosive demand for connectivity and digital solutions, four strategies can accelerate B2B telco growth. Knowing where and how to play will be critical.
Banking is the single-largest profit-generating sector in the world. So why the skepticism about its long-term value—and what should leaders do differently?
Despite low unemployment and strong GDP growth, Brazilian consumers are feeling the pinch. Some more than others—McKinsey’s latest consumer survey shows a generational divide in consumer confidence.
Operators could provide the backbone for today’s AI economy to reignite growth. But success will hinge on effectively navigating complex market dynamics, uncertain demand, and rising competition.
Advances in data maturity and AI practices can allow operators to simulate investment scenarios to identify those that matter most to customer experience.
US consumers remained optimistic about the economy at the beginning of the year, but caution around spending persisted. Here’s the latest research from our ConsumerWise team.
Despite low unemployment and strong GDP growth, Brazilian consumers are feeling the pinch. Some more than others—McKinsey’s latest consumer survey shows a generational divide in consumer confidence.
New McKinsey benchmarking research shows what separates telecom tech leaders from laggards and how a strategic approach to IT can pay off for operators.
To build up their experience capital, women can pick the occupations, industries, and geographies that present the best opportunities to enhance their careers.
To stay focused, productive, and motivated, leaders need to develop their own working rhythms and routines. Here’s how some CEOs do it.
With telcos aiming to integrate AI throughout their organizations, here’s how they can unlock the full potential while positioning themselves for the next wave of innovation.
Our February obituaries also include a nonagenarian Grammy winner, a cat therapist, and the cofounder of a Nobel Prize–winning physician group whose work touched 80 countries.
Decarbonizing the full value chain is challenging, but 60 percent of an integrated operator’s emissions can be abated for less than $100 per metric ton of CO2.
Companies that give the same strategic thought to workforce investment that they do to capital investment can unleash operational excellence.
In both the European Union and globally, the new supervisory expectations for credit spread risk in the banking book pose a clear challenge for bank treasury and risk functions.
New technologies enable consumer companies to uplift skills, productivity, and value. But consumer tech leaders who don’t harness the full potential of these innovations risk falling behind those who do.
Gen AI has increased uncertainty about workforce skills and capabilities. Organizations that harness AI-driven innovation find it makes strategic thinking and talent planning easier.
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