Confronting the affordable-housing crisis

Companies backed by private equity (PE) tend to transform faster and more often than public or family-owned firms do, leading to consistently outperforming their peers. Marla Capozzi and Sacha Ghai, McKinsey leaders, researched nearly 300 CEOs across PE and private-capital compan ...  عرض المزيد

Many leaders can get agentic pilots rolling—but realizing ROI can mean activating thousands of AI agents enterprise-wide. Is your organization ready? “Agency isn’t a feature—it’s a transfer of decision rights,” says McKinsey Partner Rich Isenberg. “The question shifts from ‘Is th ...  عرض المزيد

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 ...  عرض المزيد

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 ...  عرض المزيد

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 ...  عرض المزيد

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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