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M &A activity is down, as is private equity investment, and companies are facing a range of new geopolitical tensions. Still, there is a path to growth through M&A for those companies that maintain an active acquisition strategy, understand their capabilities, and avoid certain assets, says McKinsey Senior Partner Jake Henry. On this episode of The McKinsey Podcast, he and McKinsey Senior Partner Mieke Van Oostende join McKinsey Editorial Director Roberta Fusaro…

Airline planning is inherently challenging, in part because many planning inputs are outside an airline’s control. The global aviation ecosystem relies on interwoven networks shaped by competing stakeholder priorities. Travel demand patterns are forever shifting and tough to forecast. Unpleasant surprises—including major storms, airport infrastructure breakdowns, IT failures, ground staff shortages, and aircraft delivery delays—can add significant uncertainty to any projections. This can be further exacerbated by global crises, geopolitical…

Running an airline isn’t for the timid. Weather events, infrastructure failures, and fickle passenger demand can make an already-tough business even more challenging. As this article goes to publication, economic uncertainty and geopolitical tension are both threatening to alter travel flows, piling yet more stress on airline executives. These business challenges show up on ledger sheets. Since 2005, we’ve analyzed the financial performance of the aviation value chain. Our research demonstrates…

McKinsey: How has Europe’s TMT sector performed compared to the United States and Asia? Ruben Schaubroeck: It’s no secret that Europe has lagged behind both America and Asia over the past years, and looking at different metrics, you can see that. If you look at, for example, total TMT market capitalization, Europe’s share has dropped from 30 percent to 7 percent, which represents an $8 trillion loss. Secondly, if you…

The healthcare industry has long been a leader when it comes to women’s representation in the workforce. It has proved to be an attractive destination for the roughly 40 percent of US STEM college graduates who are women. In fact, in the United States, nursing is the largest healthcare profession, and 88 percent of nurses are women. And while women in healthcare have found it tough to climb the career…

Expanding tariffs may be capturing the headlines, but industrial-policy measures are on the rise as well. Governments have long implemented subsidies, incentives, and other interventions in domestic economies to support employment, critical manufacturing, and other national priorities. However, as the establishment of the World Trade Organization and the expansion of global trade made free-market and free-trade policies the global norm, many countries put less emphasis on supporting domestic industries. The…