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Dec 05, 2025
Brett Schulman, cofounder and CEO of the fast-casual-restaurant chain Cava, is investing in technology that he bets will enhance the human touch in the restaurant experience.
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Dec 05, 2025
Economic unease, tighter budgets, and modest splurges define the 2025 holiday season. Here's the latest research from our ConsumerWise team.
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Dec 05, 2025
Extreme weather events harm lives, economies, and businesses. But what if improved forecasting tools and techniques could empower leaders to bridge the gap between prediction and preparation?
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Dec 05, 2025
Europe's resilience is being tested. Investor Philipp Freise explains why the continent's current challenges could spark its next wave of growth.
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Dec 04, 2025
AI agents could take the friction out of travel logistics—and reshape how customers plan, purchase, and experience their trips.
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Dec 04, 2025
The CEO of Nauto explains how AI is transforming safety systems, driving behavior, and the future of mobility and insurance.
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Dec 04, 2025
The former US trade representative argues that the global trade system needs an overhaul.
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Dec 04, 2025
How can boards best help guide companies through the competitive dynamics unleashed by AI?
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Dec 03, 2025
Vikram Sinha melds his ambition for Indosat to become an AI-native techco with his vision of transforming Indonesia into a digital creator and innovator.
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Dec 03, 2025
Decades after Bruce Lee's death, his legacy as a martial arts legend remains. A new book looks beyond the physical fights to share Lee's battle for mainstream representation of Asian Americans.
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Dec 03, 2025
Private sector engagement could help unlock digital health benefits in resource-constrained healthcare systems, but its success will depend on strategies tailored to fit each country.
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Dec 03, 2025
Changes to de minimis exemptions for low-value items are creating challenges for exporters, logistics organizations, and government agencies. Here's how leaders can adapt their operations and strategies to navigate the new export landscape.
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Dec 02, 2025
Globally, governments face challenges with infrastructure planning. But by embracing best practices, they can transform their processes, reduce overspending, and capture missed opportunities.
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Dec 02, 2025
At leading banks, agentic AI systems are already improving prospecting, lead nurturing, and many more frontline activities. Here's a guide for leaders eager to join their ranks.
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Dec 02, 2025
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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Dec 01, 2025
The real competitive advantage with AI comes from having business leaders who can bridge business problems with the possibilities technology offers.
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Nov 26, 2025
Neesha Hathi, Charles Schwab's managing director and head of Wealth & Advice Solutions, discusses what it takes to build confidence and credibility with technology.
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Nov 26, 2025
Process intelligence gives organizations a clear view of how work really happens, helping them uncover inefficiencies, streamline operations, and lay the foundation for success in an AI-powered future.
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Nov 25, 2025
ServiceNow's president of global customer operations describes the company's transformation to an AI-native organization with a unique platform offering.
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Nov 25, 2025
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 25, 2025
About €5 trillion in capital investment could flow annually into cleantech in 2035. How can European companies capture a major share of that value amid strong global competition?
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Nov 25, 2025
AI is expanding the productivity frontier. Realizing its benefits requires new skills and rethinking how people work together with intelligent machines.
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Nov 25, 2025
Three McKinsey experts explain how agentic AI could reshape workflows, decision-making, and how humans and machines collaborate.
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Nov 25, 2025
Global growth remains uneven amid policy uncertainty and trade realignments. US government shutdown adds downside risk, while US-China tariff talks and gradually easing inflation offer some optimism.
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Nov 24, 2025
Despite its advanced capabilities, the European space ecosystem's competitive edge has eroded. Amid shifting space industry trends, how can Europe best use its resources to compete globally?
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Nov 24, 2025
The travel industry is experiencing dynamic growth. For private equity firms, understanding travel industry trends can help guide investments.
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Nov 24, 2025
Chase Lochmiller, cofounder and CEO of Crusoe, talks about his company's novel approaches to building and powering AI data centers
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Nov 21, 2025
From optimizing investments and enhancing risk assessment to strengthening cybersecurity, quantum computing in finance is unlocking unprecedented opportunities and transforming the future of banking.
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Nov 21, 2025
Planning for "two worlds," establishing strong external relationships, and building resilient operations are key priorities for executives aiming to capture opportunities while mitigating risks.
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Nov 21, 2025
By combining proprietary device intelligence and behavioral biometrics, the AI-enabled payments fraud prevention platform aims to detect sophisticated attacks in real time.
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Nov 20, 2025
Gen AI and agentic AI are already accelerating the impact of classic marketing approaches to driving growth, but our State of Marketing Europe 2026 report finds few CMOs are acting boldly.
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Nov 20, 2025
Productivity across sectors is slowing, and labor shortages persist. COOs are in an exceptional position to help their companies address these and other macro trends using AI.
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Nov 20, 2025
The European truck industry is at a crossroads, where a successful transition to zero-emission (ZE) trucks is not only needed to decarbonize road transport, but is key to future competitiveness.
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Nov 20, 2025
Liberty Mutual Chairman and CEO Tim Sweeney says innovation is not just a nice to have. He shares how the 113-year-old insurer has created a culture of exploration.
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Nov 20, 2025
Arenas are industries that transform the business landscape. As 18 future arenas emerge, companies should understand their own exposure and positioning now.
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Nov 20, 2025
Health is wealth, for all of us—and increasingly, for organizations that operate in the thriving wellness space. In this McKinsey Explainer, we'll delve into what people care about when it comes to their health and the changes we can expect in this space in the future.
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Nov 19, 2025
Born out of GPU scarcity, neoclouds now face a harder test: Evolve beyond bare metal or risk repeating Cloud 1.0 history.
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Nov 19, 2025
With customer and investor expectations shifting, outperforming on net revenue retention is essential for enterprise tech companies. Here's how to master this critical metric.
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Nov 19, 2025
The core task of leadership is managing change—seeing new realities and driving adaptation. To reinvent the organization, leaders must rethink traditional tools and master a more complex level of change.
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Nov 19, 2025
A McKinsey survey of technology leaders shows that sovereignty concerns are shaping their IT investment choices. We present six strategies for CIOs to navigate the waters ahead.
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Nov 19, 2025
Excess inventory is holding the aerospace and defense industry back. But solving long-standing operational and planning challenges could unleash massive value.
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Nov 19, 2025
Dealers can improve fixed-cost absorption in parts and service operations with data-driven decisions, gen AI in marketing and customer service, and efficiencies that boost retention and productivity.
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Nov 18, 2025
Customer demand for off-highway equipment is changing. US construction and agriculture equipment OEMs and dealers need to adapt to meet these changing demands.
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Nov 18, 2025
Shifting away from a sole focus on women's reproductive health to a broader view of the health of women across the care continuum can improve women's care outcomes—and health systems' financial standing.
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Nov 18, 2025
US healthcare organizations should rethink care and business models in response to substantial economic pressures and evolving care demands.
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Nov 18, 2025
Should healthcare leaders hunker down to weather the next gathering storm or reimagine their businesses through AI, automation, and innovative-care models? The best leaders will do both.
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Nov 18, 2025
Payers and health systems must act now to respond to unprecedented forces that could cause margin pressures of up to 5.5 and 13.0 percentage points, respectively.
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Nov 18, 2025
The market for data centers in Africa is entering a phase of accelerated
growth. Success will depend on strategies that reflect local realities and
capture global best practices.
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Nov 18, 2025
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 18, 2025
The surge in the use of AI healthcare tools is likely to prompt a shift away from point solutions. Early investors will set the foundation for an integrated architecture and clinical-data foundries.
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Nov 17, 2025
The Ocean Cleanup's Boyan Slat discusses the promise and challenge of technological innovation at planetary scale.
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Nov 17, 2025
Fashion leaders have moved past uncertainty, but challenges including economic volatility, evolving consumer priorities, and rapid technological disruption demand more agility and stronger capabilities to succeed in the year ahead.
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Nov 17, 2025
Role models for the future: We look to the founder-entrepreneurs responsible for the greatest value creation in Asia for their vital insights into leadership.
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Nov 17, 2025
Agentic AI promises to unleash the full potential that companies had hoped to realize with gen AI. Here's how leaders can make the most of the agentic era.
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Nov 14, 2025
Founder and CEO Sarath Ratanavadi shares his approach to capturing unique opportunities at Gulf Development that help foster relationships and promote Thailand's economy.
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Nov 14, 2025
Business depends on innovation, but what makes it accelerate or stagnate over time?
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Nov 13, 2025
Europe is at a critical juncture in its defense transformation, facing an urgent need to reinforce collective deterrence and resilience in the face of an evolving security landscape.
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Nov 13, 2025
An operating model is the backbone of any organization. It outlines how the company delivers value to its customers, operates on a day-to-day basis, and achieves its strategic objectives.
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Nov 13, 2025
Our latest survey on AI use finds that uptake is growing in the Middle East, but businesses still have ample opportunity to improve adoption, outperform peers, and create value.
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Nov 12, 2025
Demand for more global infrastructure investment creates opportunities for real estate players. McKinsey's Adrian Kwok explores how the two industries can work together in a more dynamic environment.
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Nov 12, 2025
As geopolitical shifts redefine global trade in auto components, India's industry emerges as a key player, projected to reach $200 billion by 2030. A two-pronged approach could unlock this potential.
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Nov 12, 2025
India, the world's largest producer of generic medicines, faces major technological and geopolitical disruptions. Eight priorities can help the nation's pharma industry build on its past successes.
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Nov 12, 2025
The auto finance industry could address historical challenges using agents powered by gen AI. Specialized AI agents could not only streamline processes but also unlock new sources of value.
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Nov 11, 2025
Union Square Hospitality Group CEO Chip Wade and president of full-service restaurants John Ragan explain why, in the future, chefs in its dining rooms are an asset and robots in its kitchens are not.
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Nov 11, 2025
Boat and yacht builders can use five levers—design to willingness to pay, AI, procurement resilience, digital go to market, and aftersales—to unlock new profit pools and boost EBITDA.
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Nov 11, 2025
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 06, 2025
The energy transition is proceeding, but unevenly. Easier challenges are being solved, but harder ones are stalling.
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Nov 06, 2025
New McKinsey analysis explores how pipeline development could impact the US gas market, with two scenarios showing how infrastructure expansion could affect consumers, operators, and midstream companies.
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Nov 06, 2025
Sumatra, Bucheon, Debrecen, Phoenix: At first glance, these far-flung places could hardly be less alike. But they have something important in common. They have all attracted significant amounts of foreign direct investment (FDI), writes Kweilin Ellingrud in Forbes.
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Nov 06, 2025
Our checklist provides leaders with a quick litmus test of their growth performance.
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Nov 06, 2025
As COP30 kicks off in Belem, an inevitable question is where does the energy transition stand? New McKinsey Global Institute research offers an answer, by examining the physical transformation at the heart of the transition, write Chris Bradley, Mekala Krishnan, and Humayun Tai in Fortune.
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Nov 06, 2025
Advertisers and content creators often look at the size of an audience and the amount of time they spend with a product. A more telling metric is how focused consumers are when using the product.
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Nov 06, 2025
Bristol Myers Squibb Chief Digital and Technology Officer Greg Meyers on how AI is helping biopharma move faster, experiment more and deliver a greater patient impact.
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Nov 05, 2025
India's National Stock Exchange is one of the world's largest exchanges, with the market capitalization of its listed companies exceeding $5.2 trillion. Its resilient technology platform is the secret of its success.
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Nov 05, 2025
New and incoming CEOs are often unprepared for the intensity of internal and external stakeholder engagement. The right mindset, communication skills, and actions can make all the difference.
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Nov 05, 2025
A diverse, cross-functional McKinsey team helped a leading global organization in life science ingredients and specialty chemicals create and execute a sustainable roadmap for embedding digital and analytics into its DNA.
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Nov 05, 2025
Almost all survey respondents say their organizations are using AI, and many have begun to use AI agents. But most are still in the early stages of scaling AI and capturing enterprise-level value.
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Nov 04, 2025
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 03, 2025
Many software teams are seeing some impact from AI, but a select group is experiencing more significant gains by rethinking roles, processes, and performance enablers.
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Nov 03, 2025
Real-world examples reveal how finance functions apply AI to deliver faster insights, stronger controls, and measurable results.
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Nov 03, 2025
Tomorrow's airports could feature fewer bottlenecks, less anxiety, and more flying taxis.
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Nov 03, 2025
Canada can reverse its economic slowdown and embrace its potential for global excellence—but it will take audacious, targeted moves that shift from a narrow focus on internal optimizations to bold moves that raise labour productivity and scale exports.
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Nov 03, 2025
As CEOs and CMOs ask where AI is moving from hype to real results, frontrunners demonstrate that tighter human-AI collaboration and sharper governance is required.
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Nov 03, 2025
Ready to create a customized team of global experts? Harnessing the power of AI, companies can build on-demand teams and rethink their approach to collaboration.
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Oct 31, 2025
Schiphol Chief Financial Officer Robert Carsouw details the airport's efforts to renew and rebuild with an eye on the future.
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Oct 31, 2025
Cultural and structural reform can help Japanese companies realize their full potential.
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Oct 31, 2025
The global economy is showing resilience, although growth remains uneven across regions. IMF projections indicate global growth of around 3% for 2025 and 2026, but underlying data is mixed.
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Oct 31, 2025
Towers and fiber networks have delivered strong returns for decades, but even mature technologies can reinvigorate value creation.
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Oct 30, 2025
Our latest obituaries also include the founder of an early tech start-up, a Nike executive, and a MacArthur Fellow who uncovered overlooked female scientists.
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Oct 30, 2025
AI holds the power to accelerate innovation in R&D, but realizing its potential will demand that organizations rethink how they work and overcome the barriers to adoption.
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Oct 30, 2025
Changi Airport Group's Executive Vice President Lim Ching Kiat discusses efforts to create the airport of tomorrow.
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Oct 29, 2025
The world's most valuable airline is 100 years old. The CEO explains what it takes to keep ahead in one of the very toughest industries.
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Oct 29, 2025
Wikipedia draws 11 billion monthly views—and that's just in English. Its cofounder shares how a global knowledge experiment became an exercise in building both a durable product and consumer trust.
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Oct 29, 2025
By investing in deep-tech business building, Europe's start-up ecosystem could create $1 trillion in enterprise value and up to one million jobs by 2030—paving the way for sovereign prosperity.
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Oct 29, 2025
AI is upending what we do and how we do it. Forward-looking leaders are forging partnerships to help employees develop new skills—and clearer career pathways—at scale.
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Oct 29, 2025
Power and cooling equipment are the backbones of data center infrastructure. Innovations and on-time supply of this technology will become increasingly relevant as the demand for data centers grows.
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Oct 29, 2025
Derek Waldron, the bank's chief analytics officer, explains how AI is boosting innovation, empowering employees, and cultivating an ecosystem that's reshaping how work gets done.
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Oct 28, 2025
Cisco's Jeetu Patel discusses how companies can optimize their tech stack to harness the full potential of AI without compromising their own or their consumers' security.
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Oct 28, 2025
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 28, 2025
New analysis reveals how organizations can deliver sustained savings and long-term impact.
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