Social Innovation
With close to 5,000 votes cast, McKinsey & Company's Social Innovation Practice is thrilled to announce Embrace, Apopo: HeroRATS
and sOccket as the winning videos in the Social Innovation Video Contest. McKinsey would also like to congratulate Duto: IRIS for being named Fan Favorite Video! Read more
Sustainability
India has the potential to significantly increase its energy security to support continued rapid growth, while securing sustainability that exceeds current expectations.
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Sustainability
To increase water security, countries must glean insights from information, understand trade-offs among policy choices, and establish institutional mechanisms to support execution.
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Sustainability
A new tool, the urban sustainability index, highlights five themes of sustainable development for cities in emerging economies.
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Social Innovation
City administrators are using technology to help them better deliver services, improve planning
processes, and increase public engagement.
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Sustainability
Rapidly expanding cities need healthy finances, strong governance, and professional planning.
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Education
mEducation solutions could revolutionize learning for more than a billion students globally.
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Social Innovation
This issue of What Matters convenes experts from around the world to discuss the role of innovation in society
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Social Innovation
Inspired by the 150 video submissions we received last year, we partnered with Link TV’s ViewChange.org & The Huffington Post to produce a half-hour documentary TV special about Social Innovation
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Economic Development
With 40 million people in advanced economies out of work, there is more to the employment problem than the effects of a cyclical downturn.
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Economic Development
It is not just banks in emerging markets that should grab this opportunity. Western banks will find innovative practices that they can use to refresh and adapt their traditional banking models back home.
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Economic Development
Financial services using mobile phones can fill a needed gap if providers can overcome initial hurdles.
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Economic Development
Vietnam’s economy has come an extraordinarily long way in a short time. China is the only Asian economy that has grown faster since 2000. But Vietnam now needs to boost labor productivity growth by more than 50 percent to maintain its rapid growth.
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Economic Development
Using increased computing power and new sources of information and data (including mobile-phone usage patterns, utility-bill payment history, and others) to build better risk models.
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Education
Professional development can significantly improve teacher effectiveness and student achievement. But school systems must start thinking strategically about their programs.
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Economic Development
In advance of the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, McKinsey partnered with Devex to determine how professionals in the development community view the effectiveness of their own agencies and the development sector overall.
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Sustainability
Our report shows that the resource challenge can be met through a combination of expanding the supply of resources and a steep change in the way they are extracted, converted, and used.
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Global Public Health
Many health systems suffer from a lack of leadership capacity and training. New research highlights four principles for better leadership development.
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Social Innovation
The Organizational Capacity Assessment Tool (OCAT) is a tool for nonprofits used to measure operational capacity and identify areas for improvement.
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Economic Development
To regain full employment—finding work for the currently unemployed and accommodating 15 million entrants into the labor force this decade—the US economy will need to create 21 million jobs by 2020.
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Social Innovation
This new book — the product of decades of insight from philanthropist Mario Morino, McKinsey & Company, and more than a dozen experts and practitioners — will spark reflection throughout the social sector about how to make large strides in their ability to create meaningful, measurable good for those they serve.
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Education
Realizing Arab youth potential through education that leads to improved employment prospects.
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Economic Development
Even the most efficient organizations are ill prepared for earthquakes and similar disasters. Our experience in Haiti and other disaster zones suggests that seven lessons about management, processes, and networks can make a difference when lives are on the line.
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Economic Development
Colombia’s example shows how faster economic development can result from collaboration by the private and public sectors to orchestrate microlevel reforms and foster innovation to compete in global markets.
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Education
Some of the funds required to improve teacher quality may already be in a school system’s budget – they just need to be found and reallocated.
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Education
How does a school system with poor performance become good? And how does one with good performance become excellent?
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Economic Development
Achieving full financial inclusion at the intersection of social benefit and economic sustainability.
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Social Innovation
Needs-based segmentation can help non-profits develop more effective, targeted communications and advocacy approaches.
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Economic Development
The next decade will likely mark the first since the industrial revolution when emerging economies add more to global growth than all the developed countries combined. In our view, Africa will be a core part of this economic renaissance.
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Sustainability
While meeting competing demands for water is a considerable challenge, this report provides greater clarity on the scale of that challenge and how it can be met cost effectively.
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Sustainability
Economies in many parts of the world are already susceptible to significant disruption from today’s climate – and continued economic growth could put even more value at risk.
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