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McKinsey Quarterly is the business journal of McKinsey & Company.

 
 How China is innovating
  • innovation in China, Strategy, Innovation

    FEBRUARY 2012

    A CEO’s guide to innovation in China

    Dynamic domestic players and focused multinationals are helping China churn out a growing number of innovative products and services. Intensifying competition lies ahead; here’s a road map for navigating it.

  • Three snapshots of Chinese innovation, Strategy, Innovation

    FEBRUARY 2012

    Three snapshots of Chinese innovation

    Chinese innovation is evolving in diverse ways and at an uneven pace across a range of different industries. Presented here are ground-level views from three of them: automobiles, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals.

 
Editors’ Choice
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • value drivers for corporate responsibility, Strategy, Strategic Thinking

    DECEMBER 2011

    What really drives value in corporate responsibility?

    Few companies are clear about how investing in social initiatives will change stakeholder behavior or the harm a bad strategy can cause.

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JANUARY 2012

Voices on the resource revolution

A historian and two executives offer their perspectives on the resource transition and its implications.
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