Confronting the affordable-housing crisis

McKinsey’s latest research on global banking demonstrates that artificial intelligence isn’t just another efficiency play for financial institutions; it represents a fundamental shift in how these companies manage costs, attract and retain customers, and stay ahead of the competi ...  Show more

For more than a century, medicine has largely followed a one-size-fits-all model—but that paradigm is beginning to break. On this episode of The McKinsey Podcast, Stéphane Bancel, CEO of Moderna, joins Eric Kutcher, McKinsey’s North America chair, to explore how mRNA technology i ...  Show more

Supply chain troubles are feeding into sharp build cost hikes for the construction sector in the UK. In this podcast, we look at how long these problems are likely to last, how Britain stacks up compared to the rest of the G7 economies and the impact on its housing delivery rates ...  Show more

Global markets, including the US, have been quietly calm, although there have been warning signs of looming risks and uncertainty after Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs announcement. What’s behind such market “silence”? Roger Hearing hears from Gillian Tett, the chair of t ...  Show more

Leading economists Mike Spence and Mohamed El-Erian talk about the “pretty complicated and disorienting environment” we face.  In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward thinking podcast, co-host Michael Chui talks with A. Michael Spence, dean emeritus of the Stan ...  Show more

It's musical chairs for the global economy - and not everyone can end up with a desk.

The global economy will contract by six per cent this year with mass business failures and bankruptcies, according to the OECD.

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