McKinsey Quarterly is the business journal of McKinsey & Company.
JUNE 2009
After two decades of unsustainably high spending, US consumers are suddenly behaving pretty much as they have in the past.
Consumers are moving outside the purchasing funnel—changing the way they research and buy your products. If your marketing hasn’t changed in response, it should.
MAY 2009
The economic crisis has left US consumers anxious and less prepared than ever for retirement, yet few are changing course.
Gaps in academic achievement cost the US economy trillions of dollars a year. Yet there is reason to think they could be closed.
Upon entering the mainstream—in a few years or a couple of decades—electrified cars will transform the auto and utilities sectors and create a new battery industry. What will it take to win in a battery-powered age?
An interactive graphic examines the growth of global energy and petroleum demand based on scenarios accounting for GDP and other factors, including the potential reduction in demand through increased energy productivity.
JULY 2009
By closely integrating care delivery, Kaiser Permanente delivers high-quality, cost-effective treatment. One of its senior executives outlines its approach.
The United States has a great opportunity to restrain the cost of its health care system, to improve medical outcomes, and to ease the financial and psychological burden on US consumers.
Despite massive state interventions in economies around the world, many corporate leaders and investors act as though globalization remains the dominant paradigm. That is a mistake.
There are good reasons to believe that government intervention today will be far less damaging than past experience would indicate.
In this final installment of a three-part series, Professor Richard Rumelt and McKinsey’s Lowell Bryan reflect on the strategic opportunities emerging as value shifts within and between economic sectors.
Current bank oversight failed to prevent the financial crisis. Let’s not prescribe more of the same.
MARCH 2009
JANUARY 2008
NOVEMBER 2007
The expanded role of governments means that taxpayers will pay more for public services—and will demand more in return. To meet these expectations, the public sector must transform itself.
APRIL 2009
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