Top reads of 2024
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2024: The year in charts
Here’s a look back at some of our favorite data visualizations from the year.
2024: The year in images
Discover how our authors’ words inspired our designers’ most creative choices, offering a hopeful view of a future fueled by sustainable, inclusive growth.
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Top reports this year
Our top reports of 2024 focused on the issues resonating most across organizations and society, from the potential of generative AI to the state of women in the workplace.
Global Private Markets Report 2024: Private markets in a slower era
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According to McKinsey’s latest Global Private Markets Review, private markets entered a slower era in 2023, with macroeconomic headwinds, rising financing costs and an uncertain growth outlook weighing on fundraising, deal activity and performance.
Women in the Workplace 2024: The 10th-anniversary report
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In the tenth year of our Women in the Workplace research, in partnership with LeanIn.Org, we reflect on the notable gains women have made—and how their experiences at work are, in many ways, the same or worse than ten years ago.
Closing the women’s health gap: A $1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies
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Investments addressing the women’s health gap could add years to life and life to years—and potentially boost the global economy by $1 trillion annually by 2040.
Generative AI in the pharmaceutical industry: Moving from hype to reality
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The technology could offer pharma companies a once-in-a-century opportunity—but only if they learn to scale it and address the industry’s unique challenges.
Top M&A trends in 2024: Blueprint for success in the next wave of deals
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Will 2024 launch a bright new era for M&A? Anticipating what could be an inflection point, many dealmakers are preparing for a surge—and new market requirements—in the year ahead.
2023 ESG Report: Accelerating sustainable and inclusive growth for all
We are driving measurable progress on sustainable and inclusive growth in the societies where we operate. Our 2023 ESG Report details how we are making an impact through our client work, our insights, our actions, and our giving.
Popular Series & Experiences
McKinsey Quarterly: 60th birthday edition
We’re commemorating our flagship publication’s milestone birthday with a year of themed issues, special interactive features, and timeless Quarterly classics newly released from the archives. It’s all available with a free digital Quarterly membership.
McKinsey Explainers
Direct answers to complex questions, backed by McKinsey’s expert insights.
Author Talks
Dive into insightful conversations with authors on crucial management topics including leading through a crisis, unleashing innovation, coping with organizational culture shifts, and more.
McKinsey on Lives & Legacies
Monthly round-ups of obituaries from business and society, highlighting the lasting legacies of executives and leaders from around the globe.
McKinsey Publishing Guides
Introducing McKinsey’s first-ever email guides, designed to empower professionals with the insights and skills they need to thrive in today’s complex business environment.
The Five Fifty
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Popular Special Collections This Year
Explore a few of our most visited special collections from 2024, which draw together articles, multimedia, and more to deeply engage on many facets of a single topic.
McKinsey and the World Economic Forum 2025
McKinsey collaborates with the Forum through multiple industry action groups, research and publications that help inform the...
Generative AI in operations
Technology is only powerful if it is applied where and when it matters.
The US government’s productivity improvement opportunity
This series explores McKinsey’s finding of roughly $750 billion annually that could be saved while keeping US government services...
The seasons of the CFO
The CFO role has never been harder. Each phase of a CFO's career requires unique skills. Follow us as we interview former CFOs...
Popular videos
Watch some of our most compelling videos of 2024, with topics including leadership, generative AI, consumer insights, and more.
Popular Podcasts This Year
In 2024, listeners tuned in for insights on bad bosses, empathy at work, preparing for the CEO role, and more. Explore some of our most streamed podcasts, and check out The McKinsey Podcast for even more audio.
Why so many bad bosses still rise to the top
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Narcissism. Overconfidence. Low EQ. Why do we persist in selecting for leadership traits that hamper organizational progress—and leave the right potential leaders in the wrong roles?
How to prepare for the CEO role
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Becoming a high-potential candidate for the top job starts with asking the question: Why do I want to be the CEO?
Busting myths about women in the workplace
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Professional women’s progress can feel painfully slow. At this point, what’s really holding women back?
The shape of talent in 2023 and 2024
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If 2023 was the year of the manager and the launchpad for generative AI, what will 2024 bring for talent leaders?
Gen AI: A cognitive industrial revolution
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Silicon Valley pioneer Reid Hoffman explains why we should view generative AI as a “steam engine of the mind” that promises to profoundly alter our professional and personal lives.
It’s cool to be kind: The value of empathy at work
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Hybrid work. Talent shortages. Polarizing politics. Building a culture is tougher than ever. Recent research reveals the difference empathy can make—as well as how to develop it in your workplace.
McKinsey on Books
The Journey of Leadership
Today’s CEOs operate in an increasingly high-risk environment, expected to tackle more complexity and make bigger swings, with no second chances. This has taken a toll: the average tenure of an S&P 500 CEO is at an all-time low. When the pressure is on, how can CEOs reinvent themselves too, along with their organizations?
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