McKinsey Quarterly is the business journal of McKinsey & Company.
SEPTEMBER 2009
The way out of the economic slowdown is a more effective use of the country’s resources—not just more resources.
JUNE 2008
The Performance-Based Rate model has helped both distributors and users of electricity, but for it to remain beneficial, significant changes must be made.
MAY 2007
Europe can catch up with the United States. But to do so it must encourage competition, regulate business more astutely, change the role of the state, and develop new competitive strategies.
JANUARY 2007
A recent analysis of the world's financial markets shows how they are changing, with the eurozone countries wielding ever more influence.
MAY 2005
The aging of European populations will threaten living standards and prosperity.
AUGUST 2009
With strategic options dwindling, banks that improve their core methods and practices stand the best chance of weathering the storm.
AUGUST 2008
Generics manufacturers have prospered in Central and Eastern European markets of late, but the regulatory landscape is changing. Companies must take action if they are to surmount the competition.
DECEMBER 2006
Companies that seek to outsource their IT and business processes seldom head for the region—but soon more of them will.
JULY 2008
A shortage of strong internal candidates for critical positions will force European banks to overhaul their talent-management efforts in order to stay competitive and ensure strong growth.
FEBRUARY 2008
Profits were strong in 2006, but the recent market setback poses a serious threat to the industry's profitability.
JULY 2007
The new Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) will change the way some European financial firms do business. First movers will have the advantage.
As a candidate, Nicolas Sarkozy promised to reform the French economy. Now he must deliver.
FEBRUARY 2010
A senior executive in the German Ministry of Health describes approaches the country is using to control health care costs.
MAY 2009
Shopping attitudes vary across Europe. Retailers must tailor their online offers to the needs of target segments.
MARCH 2009
Will governments negotiate an agreement on reducing carbon emissions at the December 2009 UN Climate Change Conference?
APRIL 2009
A three-part multimedia feature explores how design firm Alessi manages innovation—from working with collaborators, to how design constraints help shape products, to assessing new innovations’ potential.
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New research indicates that leadership by clinicians and talent management are the keys to making things better.
APRIL 2008
The country can go on cutting its greenhouse gas emissions substantially, but difficult trade-offs loom.
JUNE 2006
Productivity is rising, but the level of employment among working-age people actually declined from 1992 to 2003.
NOVEMBER 2004
Offshoring could create new wealth for Germany, but only if it adopts the structural reforms needed to reemploy its displaced workers.
MAY 2006
Only foreign-owned companies producing for export really excel. Service sector reform is an urgent priority.
AUGUST 2005
The cost benefits have started to tempt more and more French companies. Instead of resisting the trend, policy makers should explore the ways France could gain from it.
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