Forward Thinking

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Forward Thinking

Forward Thinking examines groundbreaking ways in which the world is evolving and how people and organizations can respond to changing demands and technologies. In each episode theorists, innovators, and business leaders discuss global trends—technology, artificial intelligence, globalization, urbanization, climate change, and more—with hosts Michael Chui and Janet Bush of the McKinsey Global Institute.

  1. 25 SEPT

    Is the world facing a state of permacrisis?

    Leading economists Mike Spence and Mohamed El-Erian talk about the “pretty complicated and disorienting environment” we face.  In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward thinking podcast, co-host Michael Chui talks with A. Michael Spence, dean emeritus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Mohamed El-Erian, president of Queens’ College Cambridge and chief economic advisor at Allianz. Together with former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister Gordon Brown, they have leveraged decades of experience to explore the question “Is the world in a state of permacrisis?”  In this podcast, the guests touch on the following:  •    How the New Zealand central bank came up with 2 percent as an arbitrary inflation target, which was then adopted by the central banks of major economies around the world. •    How the Queen of the United Kingdom asked a room full of economists why they hadn’t seen the Great Financial Crisis coming. •    How finance hijacked growth strategies, leading to 20 lost years of thinking about how to promote productivity and high, durable, inclusive growth.  See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information

    49 min

  2. 3 SEPT

    Has the drive toward human development been thrown into reverse?

    The UNDP’s Pedro Conceição talks about today’s global gridlock, uncertainty complex, and a pervasive sense of disempowerment. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information

    48 min

  3. 2 JULY

    Unpacking the mysteries of productivity

    Leading economist Chad Syverson speculates about the ingredients in productivity’s secret sauce. In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward thinking podcast, co-host Janet Bush talks with Chad Syverson. Syverson is George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His work focuses on the interactions between firm structure, market structure, and productivity. In this podcast, he covers topics including the following:  Why productivity is important How the world economy is doing on productivity What major themes of our age, from the path to net zero to trade fragmentation and aging, could impact productivity The potential role of AI to change the game for productivity How productivity growth is diffused See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information

    46 min

  4. 11 JUNE

    Delivering services to the public—digitally—with Jennifer Pahlka

    A former US deputy chief technology officer talks about how digitization can be used to create a government that works for the people.

    50 min

  5. 15 APR

    What’s the future for cities in the postpandemic world?

    Co-host Janet Bush talks with Ed Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and the chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University. His latest book, coauthored with health economist David Cutler, is Survival of the city: The future of urban life in an age of isolation, written to make sense of what might be the impact of the pandemic on cities. They covers topics including: •    Has the pandemic changed cities temporarily or permanently?•    What does the hybrid building look like? •    Do developing world cities teach us something new? •    How can homelessness be tackled?  See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information

    37 min

  6. 24 JAN

    Forward Thinking on Europe’s existential crisis with Marco Buti

    Marco Buti and Janet Bush discuss Europe’s competitiveness.

    35 min

  7. 05/12/2023

    Forward Thinking on the tricky business of removing carbon from our world with Nan Ransohoff

    A leading market maker for investment in carbon removal believes that tackling climate change has to be done quickly, but that the problem is tractable. Doom-laden thinking has gone too far.

    27 min

  8. 14/11/2023

    Forward Thinking on how geeks are changing the world with Andrew McAfee

    One of the world’s tech scholars talks geeks, two-pizza teams, the 90 percent syndrome and a whole lot more.

    1 hr
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Forward Thinking examines groundbreaking ways in which the world is evolving and how people and organizations can respond to changing demands and technologies. In each episode theorists, innovators, and business leaders discuss global trends—technology, artificial intelligence, globalization, urbanization, climate change, and more—with hosts Michael Chui and Janet Bush of the McKinsey Global Institute.

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  • Creator
    McKinsey Global Institute
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2024
  • Episodes
    82
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 McKinsey Global Institute
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