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McKinsey Quarterly is the business journal of McKinsey & Company.

 
Featured Topic: M&A
  • Taking a longer-term look at M&A value creation, Corporate Finance, M&A

    JANUARY 2012

    Taking a longer-term look at M&A value creation

    Companies that do many small deals can outperform their peers—if they have the right skills. But they need more than skill to succeed in large deals.

    Includes: Audio
  • mixed year for M&A, Corporate Finance, M&A

    JANUARY 2012

    A mixed year for M&A

    Global deal activity slowed in August, though measures of value creation continued to improve.

 
Editors’ Choice
Featured Package: Managing the resource revolution
  • revolution in resource management, Energy, Resources, Materials, Strategy & Analysis

    JANUARY 2012

    Mobilizing for a resource revolution

    Over the next quarter century, the rise of three billion more middle-class consumers will strain natural resources. The race is on to boost resource supplies, overhaul their management, and change the game with new technologies.

  • Voices on the resource revolution, Energy, Resources, Materials, Strategy & Analysis

    JANUARY 2012

    Voices on the resource revolution

    Historian Niall Ferguson, the CEO of a water services company, and Boeing’s lead environmental executive reflect on the resource transition under way, where it could be headed, and what it means for leaders now.

    Includes: Video Interactive
  • five energy technologies to watch, Energy, Resources, Materials, Strategy & Analysis

    JANUARY 2012

    Five technologies to watch

    Innovation in energy technology is taking place rapidly. Five technologies you may not have heard of could be ready to change the energy landscape by 2020.

Featured Articles
  • working out of debt, Economic Studies, Country Reports

    JANUARY 2012

    Working out of debt

    An update of our research on the efforts of developed countries to work out from under a massive overhang of debt shows how uneven progress has been. US households have made the greatest gains so far.

  • how leaders kill meaning at work, Governance, Leadership

    JANUARY 2012

    How leaders kill meaning at work

    Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their employees in four avoidable ways.

  • Why US banks need a new business model, Financial Services, Banking

    JANUARY 2012

    Why US banks need a new business model

    Investors want radical plans to boost ROE above the cost of capital.

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