Companies are getting practical about how to create value from gen AI – while 5G, satellites, and innovations in phone design also take center stage.

This is a special, bonus episode of The McKinsey Podcast. McKinsey Partner Ferry Grijpink joined McKinsey Editorial Director Roberta Fusaro to share some immediate takeaways from the annual Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona.

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Companies are getting practical about&nbsp;how to create value from gen AI&nbsp;&ndash; while 5G, satellites, and&nbsp;innovations in phone design&nbsp;also take center stage.
This is a special, bonus episode&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-podcast" data-outlook-id="241ab9b7-08a5-44a3-a284-6ca1ce6f6200">The McKinsey Podcast</a>. <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/ferry-grijpink">McKinsey Partner Ferry Grijpink</a> joined McKinsey Editorial Director Roberta Fusaro to share some immediate takeaways from the annual Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona.
Theme music composed, performed, and produced by Joy Ngiaw.

The McKinsey Podcast, our new flagship podcast series, takes you inside our global firm, and features conversations with experts on issues that matter most in business and management. McKinsey & Company is a management-consulting firm that helps businesses, governments, and not-for-profit organizations realize their most important goals. Topics covered in this series include strategy, technology, leadership, marketing, operations, organization, and the role of business in society.

The McKinsey Podcast features conversations with experts from global management-consulting firm McKinsey & Company, focusing on the issues that matter most in business and management.

The McKinsey Podcast

Our flagship series The McKinsey Podcast takes you inside our global firm, and features conversations with experts on issues that matter most in business and management. McKinsey & Company is a management-consulting firm that helps businesses, governments, and not-for-profit organizations realize their most important goals. Topics covered in this series include strategy, technology, leadership, marketing, operations, organization, and the role of business in society.

Our flagship series The McKinsey Podcast takes you inside our global firm, and features conversations with experts on issues that matter most in business and management. McKinsey &amp; Company is a management-consulting firm that helps businesses, governments, and not-for-profit organizations realize their most important goals. Topics covered in this series include strategy, technology, leadership, marketing, operations, organization, and the role of business in society.

McKinsey’s highlights from Mobile World Congress

For more than a century, medicine has largely followed a one-size-fits-all model—but that paradigm is beginning to break. On this episode of The McKinsey Podcast, Stéphane Bancel, CEO of Moderna, joins Eric Kutcher, McKinsey’s North America chair, to explore how mRNA technology is transforming healthcare. From the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines to new approaches to rare genetic diseases and individualized cancer treatments, Bancel explains how treating biology as information could reshape how drugs are discovered, manufactured, and delivered.

This is the second episode in a recurring series in which Eric talks with top CEOs about the practice of leadership.

The McKinsey Podcast is cohosted by Lucia Rahilly and Roberta Fusaro.

To watch the full-length version of this interview, go to The McKinsey Podcast’s YouTube channel.

For more than a century, medicine has largely followed a one-size-fits-all model&mdash;but that paradigm is beginning to break. On this episode of <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-podcast">The McKinsey Podcast</a>, St&eacute;phane Bancel, CEO of Moderna, joins Eric Kutcher, McKinsey&rsquo;s North America chair, to explore how mRNA technology is transforming healthcare. From the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines to new approaches to rare genetic diseases and individualized cancer treatments, Bancel explains how treating biology as information could reshape how drugs are discovered, manufactured, and delivered.
This is the second episode in a recurring series in which Eric talks with top CEOs about the practice of leadership.
The McKinsey Podcast is cohosted by Lucia Rahilly and Roberta Fusaro.
To watch the full-length version of this interview, go to The McKinsey Podcast&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhvMIsPbo0GAPNJfL83RKPmeuJRSk0KKu&amp;si=PldqxOy2OWYRvFFW">YouTube channel</a>.

The next era of healthcare is personal

A historic wave of ownership transitions is set to reshape the backbone of the US economy. The fate of jobs, local spending, and wealth creation all hinge on whether enough qualified—and diverse—buyers can step in to continue to pave the way for small business ownership. In this episode, Shelley Stewart III, McKinsey senior partner and Roberta Fusaro, editorial director, talk about the scale and stakes of the "Great Ownership transfer". After, Ken Yearwood, McKinsey partner, joins to talk about the risks of inaction and the practical pathways to making these transitions work. 

The McKinsey Podcast: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-podcast

Shelley Stewart III: https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/shelley-stewart

The Great Ownership Transfer report: https://www.mckinsey.com/institute-for-economic-mobility/our-insights/the-great-ownership-transfer-a-new-era-of-business-stewardship

McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility: https://www.mckinsey.com/institute-for-economic-mobility/overview

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A historic wave of ownership transitions is set to reshape the backbone of the US economy. The fate of jobs, local spending, and wealth creation all hinge on whether enough qualified&mdash;and diverse&mdash;buyers can step in to continue to pave the way for small business ownership. In this episode, Shelley Stewart III, McKinsey senior partner and Roberta Fusaro, editorial director, talk about the scale and stakes of the "Great Ownership transfer".&nbsp;After, Ken Yearwood, McKinsey partner, joins to talk about the risks of inaction and the practical pathways to making these transitions work.&nbsp;
The McKinsey Podcast: <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-podcast">https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-podcast</a>
Shelley Stewart III: <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/shelley-stewart">https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/shelley-stewart</a>
The Great Ownership Transfer report: <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/institute-for-economic-mobility/our-insights/the-great-ownership-transfer-a-new-era-of-business-stewardship">https://www.mckinsey.com/institute-for-economic-mobility/our-insights/the-great-ownership-transfer-a-new-era-of-business-stewardship</a>
McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility: <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/institute-for-economic-mobility/overview">https://www.mckinsey.com/institute-for-economic-mobility/overview</a>
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Sell, close, or continue? The transfer of US businesses is at a crossroads

As generative and agentic AI reshape how work gets done, the real divide isn’t who has the best ideas—it’s who can turn them into real results at speed and scale. In this webinar, McKinsey Global Editorial Director Lucia Rahilly speaks with Senior Partners Kate Smaje and Robert Levin about the updated Rewired playbook—and why winning with AI now depends less on ambition and more on building the organizational capabilities to deliver.

The McKinsey Podcast is cohosted by Lucia Rahilly and Roberta Fusaro.

This conversation has been adapted from our McKinsey Live series.

Theme music composed, performed, and produced by Joy Ngiaw.

As generative and agentic AI&nbsp;reshape how work gets done, the real divide isn&rsquo;t who has the best ideas&mdash;it&rsquo;s who can turn them into real results at speed and scale. In this webinar, McKinsey Global Editorial Director Lucia Rahilly speaks with Senior Partners&nbsp;<a href="https://preview.mckinsey.com/our-people/kate-smaje">Kate Smaje</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://preview.mckinsey.com/our-people/robert-levin">Robert Levin</a>&nbsp;about the updated&nbsp;Rewired&nbsp;playbook&mdash;and why winning with AI now depends less on ambition and more on building the organizational capabilities to deliver.
<a href="https://preview.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-podcast">The McKinsey Podcast</a>&nbsp;is cohosted by Lucia Rahilly and Roberta Fusaro.
This conversation has been adapted from our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-live">McKinsey Live</a> series.
Theme music composed, performed, and produced by Joy Ngiaw.

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