The McKinsey Crossword: McKinsey Summer Music Playlist | No. 141
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How to make a strong start as a CEO
In this episode of the Inside the Strategy Room podcast, two authors of a recent article on the CEO transition discuss how incoming leaders...
Sustainability in packaging 2023: Inside the minds of global consumers
Sustainability continues to be an increasingly important issue for the packaging value chain. At the same time, consumer awareness is also growing. As...
Tokenization: A digital-asset déjà vu
The past 12 months have been highly tumultuous for digital assets and Web3 players, even by the turbulent industry’s standards. Multiple bankruptcies, high-profile...
Private equity investments in tech services: Three considerations
The global tech sector attracted $675 billion from private equity (PE) in 2022, up from $100 billion in 2012. Within this world, software...
The Committed Innovator: Talking with Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein
When it launched in the early 2000s, global e-commerce platform Shopify was one of the first companies to offer small retailers an easy...
What is burnout?
A row of 8 matches that go from lightly to completely burnt. The last match is broken into a shape that resembles a...
Boosting machinery sector profitability via cloud-aided digitalization
Digital transformation offers tremendous opportunities for machinery and equipment manufacturers to weather setbacks and disruptions while still innovating and improving operations. The idea...
Accelerating the transition to net zero in life sciences
The life sciences industry, which includes pharmaceutical and medtech companies, contract manufacturers, healthcare distributors, and others, has an innate purpose in society, providing...
Where could $374 billion in dry powder go? Six themes to watch
Private capital loved software —or it did for about a decade, during which capital deployment skyrocketed. In more recent quarters, software markets have...