Best McKinsey Global Institute Podcasts (2024)

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Unpacking the mysteries of productivity 45:46

11d ago45:46

45:46

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 …

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Delivering services to the public—digitally—with Jennifer Pahlka 49:47

1M ago49:47

49:47

A former US deputy chief technology officer talks about how digitization can be used to create a government that works for the people. Jennifer Pahlka is the founder of Code for America, served as the United States government’s deputy chief technology officer, and is author of the book Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age …

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What’s the future for cities in the postpandemic world? 37:04

3M ago37:04

37:04

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…

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Forward Thinking on Europe’s existential crisis with Marco Buti 34:49

6M ago34:49

34:49

Co-host Janet Bush talks with Marco Buti. Buti holds the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair in European Economic and Monetary Integration at the European University Institute. They cover topics including the following: The evolution of European policy coordination European competitiveness Whether Europe’s business model is sustainable The need of more sp…

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Forward Thinking on the tricky business of removing carbon from our world with Nan Ransohoff 26:47

8M ago26:47

26:47

Co-host Michael Chui talks with Nan Ransohoff. Ransohoff is the head of climate at Stripe and leads Frontier, an advanced market commitment for carbon removal. She answers questions including: Is carbon removal a get out of jail free card for emitters? What are the most promising carbon removal technologies? Is it possible to scale up effective tec…

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Forward Thinking on how geeks are changing the world with Andrew McAfee 1:00:22

8M ago1:00:22

1:00:22

Co-host Michael Chui talks with Andy McAfee. McAfee is a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-founder and co-director of MIT’s initiative on the digital economy, and the inaugural visiting fellow at the Technology in Society organization at Google. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information…

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Forward Thinking on why we ignore inflation—from ancient times to the present—at our peril with Stephen King 46:30

9M ago46:30

46:30

Co-host Janet Bush talks with Stephen King. King is a senior economic advisor to HSBC, having served as the bank’s group chief economist from 1998 to 2015. His latest book, very prescient in timing, is We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years. In this podcast, he covers topics including the following: The root ca…

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Forward Thinking on the existential issues facing the middle classes in every country with Homi Kharas 41:21

9M ago41:21

41:21

Co-host Janet Bush talks with Homi Kharas. Kharas is a senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution and also cofounder of World Data Lab. He studies policies and trends influencing developing countries, the emergence of the world's middle class, and global governance. He's collaborated with the McKinsey Globa…

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Forward Thinking on funding a clean world with Ann Mettler 35:19

11M ago35:19

35:19

Co-host Janet Bush talks with Ann Mettler. Mettler is Vice President, Europe, at Breakthrough Energy, working on cleantech innovation in pursuit of a net-zero-emissions future. Before her current role, she worked for many years in European public policy. She was head of the European Political Strategy Center, the in-house think tank of the European…

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Forward Thinking on the recipe for Asia’s success story with Justin Yifu Lin 37:31

11M ago37:31

37:31

Co-host Janet Bush talks with Justin Yifu Lin. Lin is dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics, dean of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, and professor and honorary dean of the National School of Development at Peking University. He served as chief economist at the World Bank from 2008 to 2012, and he actually took …

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Forward Thinking on how to live with our longer lives with Andrew J. Scott 42:44

12M ago42:44

42:44

Co-host Janet Bush talks with Andrew J. Scott. Scott is professor of economics at London Business School; his work focuses on the economics of longevity. He's co-founder of the Longevity Forum and a member of the World Economic Forum's Council on Healthy Aging and Longevity, topics that are very much the focus of the McKinsey Health Institute. His …

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Forward Thinking on avoiding another false dawn for Africa and finally seizing the continent’s potential with Carlos Lopes 39:22

1y ago39:22

39:22

Cohost Janet Bush talks with Carlos Lopes. He is a professor in the Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town. He’s also an affiliate professor at Sciences Po, Paris, an associate fellow in the Africa Program at Chatham House, and a member of the African Union reform team. Lopes was the policy director for UN Secretary Gene…

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Forward Thinking on bringing the joy to economics with Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers 48:28

1y ago48:28

48:28

Cohost Michael Chui talks with Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, both professors of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan. They cover topics including the following: Subjective well-being How the labor market has evolved since the pandemic A decline in inequality The potential impact of AI Why write a new economics text book?…

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Forward Thinking on the brave new world of generative AI with Ethan Mollick 48:49

1y ago48:49

48:49

Co-host Michael Chui talks with business professor Ethan Mollick. He is an associate professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mollick covers topics including the following: What is generative AI? How substantial are the performance improvements workers can gain from using generative AI How to use human management skills to…

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Forward Thinking on the rollercoaster of central banking with Hans-Helmut Kotz 37:10

1y ago37:10

37:10

Co-host Michael Chui talks with economist Hans-Helmut Kotz who is a visiting professor of economics at Harvard University, a senior policy fellow at the Leibniz Institute for financial research at Goethe University, Frankfurt, and on the economics faculty of Freiburg University. Kotz covers topics including the following: Parallels between the 2007…

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Forward Thinking on people on the move and the technological progress and productivity they bring with Dany Bahar 39:57

1y ago39:57

39:57

Co-host Janet Bush talks with economist Dany Bahar. He is an associate professor of practice of international and public affairs at Brown University’s Watson Institute and a senior fellow of the Growth Lab at the Harvard Center for International Development. He’s also a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Center for Global Devel…

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Forward Thinking on ‘megathreats,’ ‘polycrises,’ and ‘doom loops’ with Nouriel Roubini 39:37

1+ y ago39:37

39:37

Co-host Michael Chui talks with Nouriel Roubini. Roubini is professor emeritus of economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University, and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, a global macroeconomics consultancy. He covers topics including the following: The “mother of all” debt crises and what to do about it Likely future trends in the gl…

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Forward Thinking on working at the interface of the environment and business with Justin Adams 41:10

1+ y ago41:10

41:10

Co-host Michael Chui talks with Justin Adams. Adams is the head of partnerships at Just Climate, a climate-led investment business. he answers questions, including: How does nature or the ecosystem provide services to the economy? How much needs to be invested in nature? What role can capitalism play in addressing issues around sustainability? What…

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Forward Thinking on what deep history might tell us about today’s turbulent times with Alan Taylor 36:29

1+ y ago36:29

36:29

In this podcast, economist Alan Taylor covers how history can provide a lens into trends in globalization and wealth and the long-term impact of pandemics. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy informationBy McKinsey Global Institute

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Forward Thinking on how to get remote working right with Nicholas Bloom 47:00

1+ y ago47:00

47:00

In this episode, co-host Michael Chui talks with Nicholas Bloom. Bloom is the William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He covers topics including the following: The history of remote work How remote work can enhance productivity What practices make hybri…

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Forward Thinking on the complicated and contentious state of global trade with Chad P. Bown 40:29

1+ y ago40:29

40:29

Janet Bush talks with Chad P. Bown. Bown is Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. They cover topics including: How contentious current trading relationships are in the context of history Is the world deglobalizing or not? The economic and human cost of decoupling See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for …

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Forward Thinking on the meeting point of science and humanity with Jayshree Seth 43:52

1+ y ago43:52

43:52

In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, co-host Michael Chui talks with Jayshree Seth, a corporate scientist and the chief science advocate at the 3M company. She covers topics including: How the human context can be brought into the practice of science and engineering Expanding talent pipelines into STEM fields…

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Forward Thinking on the fragility of the world’s food systems and how to fix them with Jessica Fanzo 38:53

1+ y ago38:53

38:53

In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, Janet Bush talks with Jessica Fanzo. Fanzo is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food Policy and Ethics at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins Univers…

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Forward Thinking on talent, state capacity, and being hopeful with Tyler Cowen 48:04

2y ago48:04

48:04

In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, Michael Chui talks to Tyler Cowen, Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University, who serves as chairman and general director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. With colleague Alex Tabarrok, Cowen is coauthor of the popular economics blog …

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Forward Thinking on progress in science funding, immigration, and biosecurity with Alec Stapp 42:37

2y ago42:37

42:37

In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, co-host Michael Chui talks with Alec Stapp, co-CEO of the Institute for Progress, a Washington, DC, think tank he co-founded in January 2022. Progress is a policy choice, its founders say, and they have chosen to focus initially on three topics—meta-science, high-skill imm…

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Unpacking the mysteries of productivity 45:46

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Delivering services to the public—digitally—with Jennifer Pahlka 49:47

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What’s the future for cities in the postpandemic world? 37:04

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Forward Thinking on Europe’s existential crisis with Marco Buti 34:49

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Forward Thinking on the tricky business of removing carbon from our world with Nan Ransohoff 26:47

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Forward Thinking on how geeks are changing the world with Andrew McAfee 1:00:22

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Forward Thinking on why we ignore inflation—from ancient times to the present—at our peril with Stephen King 46:30

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Forward Thinking on the existential issues facing the middle classes in every country with Homi Kharas 41:21

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Forward Thinking on funding a clean world with Ann Mettler 35:19

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Forward Thinking on the recipe for Asia’s success story with Justin Yifu Lin 37:31

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Forward Thinking on how to live with our longer lives with Andrew J. Scott 42:44

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Forward Thinking on avoiding another false dawn for Africa and finally seizing the continent’s potential with Carlos Lopes 39:22

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Forward Thinking on bringing the joy to economics with Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers 48:28

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Forward Thinking on the brave new world of generative AI with Ethan Mollick 48:49

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Forward Thinking on the rollercoaster of central banking with Hans-Helmut Kotz 37:10

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Forward Thinking on people on the move and the technological progress and productivity they bring with Dany Bahar 39:57

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Forward Thinking on ‘megathreats,’ ‘polycrises,’ and ‘doom loops’ with Nouriel Roubini 39:37

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Forward Thinking on working at the interface of the environment and business with Justin Adams 41:10

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Forward Thinking on what deep history might tell us about today’s turbulent times with Alan Taylor 36:29

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Forward Thinking on how to get remote working right with Nicholas Bloom 47:00

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Forward Thinking on the complicated and contentious state of global trade with Chad P. Bown 40:29

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Forward Thinking on the meeting point of science and humanity with Jayshree Seth 43:52

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Forward Thinking on the fragility of the world’s food systems and how to fix them with Jessica Fanzo 38:53

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Forward Thinking on talent, state capacity, and being hopeful with Tyler Cowen 48:04

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Forward Thinking on progress in science funding, immigration, and biosecurity with Alec Stapp 42:37

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