65 Episodes

  1. Is the world facing a state of permacrisis?

    Published: 9/25/2024
  2. Has the drive toward human development been thrown into reverse?

    Published: 9/3/2024
  3. Unpacking the mysteries of productivity

    Published: 7/2/2024
  4. Delivering services to the public—digitally—with Jennifer Pahlka

    Published: 6/11/2024
  5. What’s the future for cities in the postpandemic world?

    Published: 4/15/2024
  6. Forward Thinking on Europe’s existential crisis with Marco Buti

    Published: 1/24/2024
  7. Forward Thinking on the tricky business of removing carbon from our world with Nan Ransohoff

    Published: 12/5/2023
  8. Forward Thinking on how geeks are changing the world with Andrew McAfee

    Published: 11/14/2023
  9. Forward Thinking on why we ignore inflation—from ancient times to the present—at our peril with Stephen King

    Published: 11/1/2023
  10. Forward Thinking on the existential issues facing the middle classes in every country with Homi Kharas

    Published: 10/11/2023
  11. Forward Thinking on funding a clean world with Ann Mettler

    Published: 9/5/2023
  12. Forward Thinking on the recipe for Asia’s success story with Justin Yifu Lin

    Published: 8/15/2023
  13. Forward Thinking on how to live with our longer lives with Andrew J. Scott

    Published: 7/26/2023
  14. Forward Thinking on avoiding another false dawn for Africa and finally seizing the continent’s potential with Carlos Lopes

    Published: 7/12/2023
  15. Forward Thinking on bringing the joy to economics with Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

    Published: 6/28/2023
  16. Forward Thinking on the brave new world of generative AI with Ethan Mollick

    Published: 5/31/2023
  17. Forward Thinking on the rollercoaster of central banking with Hans-Helmut Kotz

    Published: 5/17/2023
  18. Forward Thinking on people on the move and the technological progress and productivity they bring with Dany Bahar

    Published: 4/19/2023
  19. Forward Thinking on ‘megathreats,’ ‘polycrises,’ and ‘doom loops’ with Nouriel Roubini

    Published: 3/22/2023
  20. Forward Thinking on working at the interface of the environment and business with Justin Adams

    Published: 3/1/2023

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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, urbanization, climate change, and more—with hosts Michael Chui and Janet Bush of the McKinsey Global Institute.