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Report
The Year of Quantum: From concept to reality in 2025
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Our fourth annual Quantum Technology Monitor report shows that surging investment and faster-than-expected innovation could propel the quantum market to $100 billion in a decade.
Article
The new rules for getting your operating model redesign right
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The goal of a redesign is to increase value, but failure rates are high. New research updates classic rules of redesign to help leaders flip the odds of success.
Article
The next specialty: The physician CEO
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Healthcare organizations face growing complexity, and physicians are eager to step in, drawing on their distinct expertise. Here’s how their CEO potential can be unlocked to achieve both mission and margin.
Explainers
What is an EV?
EVs are powered by electricity and an electric motor, rather than a more conventional, gasoline-fueled internal combustion engine....
Week in Charts
Obesity’s growing but unequal burden
Widespread obesity has emerged as a significant public health concern only in the past 50 years.
Themes
Get to know the minds behind the growth issue of McKinsey Quarterly
Get to know the authors behind the articles as they explore how companies can deliver sustainable value during both good and...
Lives & Legacies
A clothier turned philanthropist, the dad behind a ‘leap’ in learning, and a ‘key’ curator of African art
Our May obituaries also include a celebrity optician, a legendary blind guitarist who saw the world through music, and a renowned...
Our Latest Survey Research
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Economic conditions outlook, June 2025
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Surveyed executives increasingly point to changes to trade policy and relationships as a disruptive force they expect to affect the world economy, their countries, and their companies.
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The Weekend Read
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Mind the Gap
Biweekly curated reads on Gen Z in the workplace
McKinsey Classics
Timeless insights—and why they’re as relevant as ever
Only McKinsey Perspectives
Delivering actionable insights on the day’s news, as only McKinsey can
McKinsey Insights app: Leadership and business insights
Discover McKinsey's latest business insights on the biggest opportunities and most challenging issues facing executives today.
Interviews
Podcast
What the labor market isn’t telling you—yet
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Fewer roles. Different roles. More roles requiring new skills. As AI upends today’s talent landscape, the watchword is “uncertainty.” What’s really going on?
Interview
Can Bloomingdale’s bring the magic back to department stores?
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CEO Olivier Bron shares what distinguishes the 150-year-old brand in the crowded retail landscape and how it aims to create lasting relationships with shoppers.
McKinsey on Books
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...
The Broken Rung
The broken rung is a phenomenon even more pervasive than the glass ceiling in holding women back from career success. This book...
Author Talks: Ready to grow up? Adulthood in a few easy lessons
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Adulting now comes with a new manual. Author Gretchen Rubin breaks down the complexities of grown-up life, from self-mastery...
New from the Quarterly
Since 1964, McKinsey Quarterly has delivered our most distinctive, crosscutting insights. We’re delighted to mark its 60th birthday with a yearlong celebration featuring special issues, interactive experiences, and bonus compilations.
McKinsey Quarterly: 60th birthday edition
In this special issue—the third in the Quarterly’s 60th birthday celebration—we focus on how companies...
Revolutionary innovations propelling growth
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Innovation is a critical ingredient in any growth recipe. And the biggest growth—both for the innovator and the broader...
McKinsey Classics special issue: Growth
What’s the ultimate driver for CEOs and the top issue for their organizations? Growth. This bonus collection of 18 classic...
McKinsey Institutes
Article - MGI Research
The great trade rearrangement
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A newly defined “rearrangement ratio” gauges the potential to rearrange US imports from China and how this could...
Report - McKinsey Health Institute
The path toward a metabolic health revolution
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The advent of weight management drugs such as GLP-1s have brought the treatment of obesity to the forefront of public attention,...
Article - McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility
Who is Rural America?
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There is little agreement on how to define rural America. A more thorough understanding and appreciation of these areas could...
Brainteasers
The McKinsey Crossword: Lives & Legacies | No. 239
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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.
Data Points
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