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The McKinsey Podcast
by McKinsey & Company · English
The McKinsey Podcast, our new flagship podcast series, takes you inside our global firm, and features conversations with experts on issues that matter most in business and management. McKinsey & Company is a management-consulting firm that helps businesses, governments, and not-for-profit organizations realize their most important goals. Topics covered in this series include strategy, technology, leadership, marketing, operations, organization, and the role of business in society.
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Always orbiting: How consumers plan travel experiences now
“Always orbiting” explains how travelers increasingly keep researching after booking, revisit options, and switch destinations as new inspiration appears.
13 Nov 2026 · 22m · 10 chaptersBeauty, redefined
How beauty is changing beyond makeup counters—driven by TikTok/social commerce, K-beauty ingredients, new “beauty/wellness” definitions (including GLP-1 side effects), and emerging AI agents that may…
5 Nov 2026 · 22m · 10 chaptersThe algorithm isn’t the advantage–the team is
FICO’s evolution from credit-score analytics to AI-driven, one-to-one consumer decisioning; how explainable AI and audit trails address regulated financial-services constraints; and how “agent-first”…
29 Oct 2026 · 23m · 11 chaptersWhat trends are influencing the food and beverage industry?
McKinsey discusses why consumer packaged goods (food and beverage) lost about $1T in enterprise value and how CPG leaders can use AI to “fund the next wave of growth,” emphasizing focus, scaling, and…
22 Oct 2026 · 21m · 13 chaptersPlace, purpose, and the path to economic mobility
How economic mobility depends on affordability, health, skills-based hiring, and “place, purpose, and proximity,” based on McKinsey’s Institute for Economic Mobility survey of 30,000 Americans.
15 Oct 2026 · 22m · 11 chaptersThe playbook for seeing around geopolitical corners
Geopolitical foresight planning for CEOs—how to hedge against geopolitical uncertainty using a toolkit (horizon scanning, scenario planning, contingency planning, simulations, tabletop/wargaming) and…
8 Oct 2026 · 17m · 9 chaptersThe hidden value of physical AI
Physical AI—using sensing, decision-making, and actuation to make machines adapt to the real world—moving beyond demos toward reliable autonomy, and reshaping work in a large “physical economy.”
1 Oct 2026 · 19m · 9 chaptersDemocratized superintelligence is coming: The world needs to get ready
The episode argues that “democratized superintelligence” is arriving soon, driven by reasoning-capable AI agents, and that society must prepare—especially for cybersecurity risk and for the…
24 Sep 2026 · 24m · 10 chaptersWhy transformations stall—and where only CEOs make the difference
Why organizational transformations stall, centered on “collective action problems,” and what CEOs can do that can’t be delegated—especially setting enterprise-wide incentives and conditions (e.g.,…
17 Sep 2026 · 24m · 12 chaptersIs progress behind us, or is ‘plenty’ still possible?
The McKinsey Global Institute’s book/podcast A Century of Plenty asks whether another century of progress is possible and what “plenty” means—especially for energy, food, metals, innovation, and…
10 Sep 2026 · 10m · 4 chaptersMade in America, again? Rethinking US manufacturing resilience
How U.S. manufacturing resilience should be rebuilt amid geopolitical fragmentation and AI-era technology needs, based on a McKinsey Global Institute report.
3 Sep 2026 · 25m · 13 chaptersConsumers don’t trust AI advice. They turn to it anyway.
McKinsey research on how consumers make decisions amid AI, social media, wellness trends, experiences, and affordability pressures; includes low trust in AI/social and implications for brands…
27 Aug 2026 · 21m · 10 chaptersEarning and sustaining trust in the age of AI
Andrew Schlossberg, CEO of Invesco, discusses earning and sustaining trust in asset management during volatility and the rise of AI.
20 Aug 2026 · 23m · 10 chaptersHow premium leisure travel is rewriting airline economics
How premium leisure travel is changing airline economics, product design, pricing, and forecasting—while the industry still struggles to earn its cost of capital globally.
13 Aug 2026 · 24m · 12 chaptersAre you settling for a “B+" life?
Suzy Welch discusses how to avoid a “B+ life” (a job that merely meets needs) and instead pursue an “A+ life” by aligning personal values, cognitive/emotional aptitudes, and economically viable…
6 Aug 2026 · 24m · 14 chaptersThe new advantage in the age of AI: Building in the real world
Real estate’s bottleneck is execution, not capital—especially for housing, energy/infrastructure projects, and permitting—while AI is shifting value from software to “physical AI” and on-the-ground…
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