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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, ... more

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Affordable luxury: It may sound like an oxymoron, but in an uncertain economy, it’s striking a chord with cautious consumers looking for value—and expecting more from the brands they buy. “Brands are actively thinking about the fact that people are s... more

Tariff tumult. Shifting geopolitical alliances. AI acceleration. Structural shifts are reshaping global trade. On this episode of The McKinsey Podcast, McKinsey Senior Partner Shubham Singhal and McKinsey Partner Jeongmin Seong speak with Global Edit... more

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McKinsey’s latest research on global banking demonstrates that artificial intelligence isn’t just another efficiency play for financial institutions; it represents a fundamental shift in how these companies manage costs, attract and retain customers,... more

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For more than a century, medicine has largely followed a one-size-fits-all model—but that paradigm is beginning to break. On this episode of The McKinsey Podcast, Stéphane Bancel, CEO of Moderna, joins Eric Kutcher, McKinsey’s North America chair, to... more

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Recent Guests

Ido Segev
McKinsey Senior Partner
McKinsey & Company
Episode: Move first or fall behind: How AI is rewriting the rules of banking
Stéphane Bancel
CEO of Moderna
Moderna
Episode: The next era of healthcare is personal
Ken Yearwood
McKinsey partner and co-author of the report
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Episode: Sell, close, or continue? The transfer of US businesses is at a crossroads
Rob Levin
McKinsey partner and co-author of Rewired (Edition 2)
McKinsey & Company
Episode: Rewiring for AI: From ambition to advantage
Kate Smaje
McKinsey global leader for tech and AI
McKinsey & Company
Episode: Rewiring for AI: From ambition to advantage
Anu Madgavkar
McKinsey Partner, co-presenter sharing insights from McKinsey Global Institute
McKinsey & Company
Episode: The rise of the human–AI workforce
David Novak
Co-founder, former CEO of Yum! Brands
Yum! Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell); PepsiCo
Episode: What great leaders know about not knowing it all
Nick Leung
McKinsey partner
McKinsey & Company
Episode: Follow the money: How FDI is redrawing the global economy
Eric Kutcher
McKinsey's chair of North America
McKinsey & Company
Episode: Can the US sustain its competitive edge?

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Roberta Fusaro
Host of The McKinsey Podcast; McKinsey & Company
Lucia Rahilly
Host of The McKinsey Podcast?; McKinsey & Company

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4.2 out of 5 stars from 1.6k ratings
  • Very formal and, frankly, surprisingly dull

    There’s no personal perspective and very few concrete insights.

    In “2026 Davos Highlights”, McKinsey manages to speak for 13 minutes without mentioning China, India, Greenland, Trump, NATO, or tariffs at all - which feels like a notable omission, given the context.

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  • Who you hire when you delegate responsibility

    A partnership that is dying but struggling to remain relevant, is only surviving because of Middle East work.

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  • Tariff and Trade Episode

    This was an interesting episode with a clear and succinct message of the implications of tariffs uncertainty

    Great job by Lucia, Cindy and Shubham!

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  • Equality

    My experience has been that boys are outnumbered in college education and progress in my company. Equality is not a female only issue.

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  • Their insights are very timely and relevant in modern times. They’re also very pragmatic and these gave me insights on how to better execute gen ai.

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The next era of healthcare is personal
Q: What do you see as the biggest changes in drug discovery and manufacturing over the next decade?
The time to develop drugs will shrink dramatically, costs will come down with more efficient processes, and the probability of success in early trials will rise as AI-informed design and automated experimentation mature. This will enable faster delivery of effective therapies to patients.
The next era of healthcare is personal
Q: How has AI changed your approach to R&D and manufacturing?
AI accelerates discovery by running simulations, optimizing lipid formulations, and creating rapid feedback loops between lab experiments and computational models. It also helps coordinate manufacturing, reduce air gaps, and enable rapid scale-up across multiple sites, making personalized medicine more feasible.
The next era of healthcare is personal
Q: What is Moderna's core scientific insight and how does it change the way you think about drug development?
Moderna treats life and disease as information to be manipulated, using mRNA as an information carrier to instruct the body's immune system or other cells. This enables a highly modular platform where therapies can be customized and rapidly iterated, moving from one-off molecules to a scalable process where the same framework can generate many different medicines.
Rewiring for AI: From ambition to advantage
Q: Rob, what are the gaps most businesses miss in their AI maturity journey?
The main gaps are that AI initiatives are not truly business-led, and adoption is under-resourced beyond MVPs. Companies need to scale end-to-end workflows, prepare for production and replication across footprints, and build adaptive adoption processes that don't restart from scratch for each country or line of business.
Sell, close, or continue? The transfer of US businesses is at a crossroads
Q: What financing innovations could unlock more transactions?
Creative options include seller financing, group/community capital, search funds (ETA), and blended capital structures to reduce risk and expand the pool of potential buyers and sellers.

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The show centers on strategic management topics at the intersection of technology, economics, and leadership, often featuring high-level practitioners and researchers from McKinsey and external guests. Across episodes, listeners hear practical frameworks for AI adoption, organizational design, workforce evolution, and global competitiveness, with real-world case studies from banking, biotech, manufacturing, and private equity. Noteworthy is the frequent inclusion of senior partners and industry leaders who translate rigorous research into actionable insights, along with thoughtful governance and policy considerations shaping technology-led transformations. The format tends to balance strategic overview with concrete examples, making it usef... more

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