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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, urbani...
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65 epizodIs 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.
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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.
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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 Institut...
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.
Jennifer...
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...
Forward Thinking on Europe’s existential crisis with Marco Buti
Co-host Janet Bush talks with Marco Buti. Buti holds the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair in European Economic and Monetary Integration at the European Un...
Forward Thinking on the tricky business of removing carbon from our world with Nan Ransohoff
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...
Forward Thinking on how geeks are changing the world with Andrew McAfee
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-directo...
Forward Thinking on why we ignore inflation—from ancient times to the present—at our peril with Stephen King
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...
Forward Thinking on the existential issues facing the middle classes in every country with Homi Kharas
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 c...
Forward Thinking on funding a clean world with Ann Mettler
Co-host Janet Bush talks with Ann Mettler. Mettler is Vice President, Europe, at Breakthrough Energy, working on cleantech innovation in pursuit of a...
Forward Thinking on the recipe for Asia’s success story with Justin Yifu Lin
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 Cooperat...
Forward Thinking on how to live with our longer lives with Andrew J. Scott
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 longevi...
Forward Thinking on avoiding another false dawn for Africa and finally seizing the continent’s potential with Carlos Lopes
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 a...
Forward Thinking on bringing the joy to economics with Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers
Cohost Michael Chui talks with Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, both professors of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan. They...
Forward Thinking on the brave new world of generative AI with Ethan Mollick
Co-host Michael Chui talks with business professor Ethan Mollick. He is an associate professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania...
Forward Thinking on the rollercoaster of central banking with Hans-Helmut Kotz
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 t...
Forward Thinking on people on the move and the technological progress and productivity they bring with Dany Bahar
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...
Forward Thinking on ‘megathreats,’ ‘polycrises,’ and ‘doom loops’ with Nouriel Roubini
Co-host Michael Chui talks with Nouriel Roubini. Roubini is professor emeritus of economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University, an...
Forward Thinking on working at the interface of the environment and business with Justin Adams
Co-host Michael Chui talks with Justin Adams. Adams is the head of partnerships at Just Climate, a climate-led investment business. he answers questio...
Forward Thinking on what deep history might tell us about today’s turbulent times with Alan Taylor
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 pande...
Forward Thinking on how to get remote working right with Nicholas Bloom
In this episode, co-host Michael Chui talks with Nicholas Bloom. Bloom is the William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University and a senio...
Forward Thinking on the complicated and contentious state of global trade with Chad P. Bown
Janet Bush talks with Chad P. Bown. Bown is Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. They cover topics incl...
Forward Thinking on the meeting point of science and humanity with Jayshree Seth
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, co-host Michael Chui talks with Jayshree Seth, a corporate scientist and...
Forward Thinking on the fragility of the world’s food systems and how to fix them with Jessica Fanzo
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, Janet Bush talks with Jessica Fanzo. Fanzo is the Bloomberg Distinguished...
Forward Thinking on talent, state capacity, and being hopeful with Tyler Cowen
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, Michael Chui talks to Tyler Cowen, Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics a...
Forward Thinking on progress in science funding, immigration, and biosecurity with Alec Stapp
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 P...
Forward Thinking on the sustainability revolution in textiles and the fashion industry with Edwin Keh
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, co-host Janet Bush talks to Edwin Keh, the CEO of the Hong Kong Research...
Forward Thinking on people, places, and the revenge of places that don’t matter with Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, co-host Janet Bush talks to Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Princesa de Asturias C...
Forward Thinking on war in Ukraine, inflation, and cooperation in a fractured world with Jean Pisani-Ferry
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, co-host Janet Bush talks to leading French economist Jean Pisani-Ferry. H...
Forward Thinking on measuring the value of the digital age with Avinash Collis
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, co-host Michael Chui talks with Avinash Collis, professor of digital econ...
Forward Thinking on trade, vaccines, and sustainable and inclusive growth with WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, guest interviewer Acha Leke talks with Ngozi-Okonjo-Iweala. Acha Leke is...
Forward Thinking on democratizing technology with Anne-Marie Imafidon
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, Janet Bush talks with British mathematician and technologist Anne‑Marie I...
Forward Thinking on the growing role of business in the net-zero transition with Claire O’Neill
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, co-host Janet Bush speaks with Claire O’Neill. While serving as a ministe...
Forward Thinking on tech and the unpredictability of prediction with Benedict Evans
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, Michael Chui talks with Benedict Evans, an independent technology analyst...
Forward Thinking on sustainable and inclusive growth with Ron O’Hanley
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, guest interviewer Jonathan Woetzel talks with Ron O’Hanley, president and...
Forward Thinking on pandemic paradoxes, labor market myths, and ‘cowboy capitalism’ with David Autor
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, Michael Chui talks with David Autor, Ford Professor of Economics at the M...
Forward Thinking on the social contract in a postpandemic world with Minouche Shafik and Andrew Sheng
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, guest interviewer Jonathan Woetzel talks with two leading economists span...
Forward Thinking on the transformative role of intangible assets in companies and economies with Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, co-host Janet Bush talks with Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake. Jonatha...
Forward Thinking on globalization and the evolving role of corporate leadership in the 21st century with Matthew Slaughter
In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, co-host Michael Chui talks with Matthew J. Slaughter, Paul Danos Dean and...