In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Harvard Business Review

• A Better Way to Manage Internal Talent Markets
  Giving employees too much discretion can be costly.
• “We Want to Make Ourselves Better”
  Since becoming McKinsey & Company’s global managing partner in 2021, Bob Sternfels has had to navigate a series of thorny challenges. He has taken steps to restore the consulting firm’s reputation after several scandals, most notably its role in the U.S. opioid crisis. He’s trying to tighten the rules on client selection and governance without alienating the firm’s partners. And to set McKinsey up for the AI era, he and his partners are driving an organizational transformation to focus less on traditional consulting services and more on delivering outcomes. Sternfels, who joined McKinsey as an associate 32 years ago, spoke with HBR editor at large Adi Ignatius about how these challenges are reshaping McKinsey as it celebrates its centennial. Here are edited excerpts from that conversation.
• Get Off the Transformation Treadmill
  Too much change can traumatize your organization. The remedy is to minimize the need.
• LEADING After the FOUNDER
  When the person who built the company steps back, emotions run high—and many organizations stumble. Here’s how to manage the transition.
• A Systematic Approach to Experimenting with Gen AI
  To reduce risk, refine their strategies, and optimize adoption at scale, companies need more testing at the organizational level.
• Why Big Companies Struggle to Negotiate Great Deals
  The structural traps that undermine enterprise negotiations—and how to escape them.
• The Project-Driven Organization
  CEOs must put projects, not operations, at the center of how their companies create value. Here’s how.
• Marketing at the Speed of Culture
  A guide to creating fastvertising—quick-response ads that go viral.
• Match Your AI Strategy to Your Organization’s Reality
  Align your ambitions with the parts of the value chain you control and the technologies you’re equipped to handle.
• How to Stand Out to C-Suite Recruiters
  A guide to how executive search firms assess candidates.
• Should Maya press forward with Maxinq Mirror or rethink the strategy?
  THE EXPERTS RESPOND.
• Executive Summaries
  January–February 2026
• Gayle King
  Though she studied psychology in college, King fell in “love, love, love” with television news while working as a production assistant at a local CBS station. She then committed to what would become a five-decade career in journalism. After stints producing, reporting for, and hosting local programs, she took to the national stage with her short-lived The Gayle King Show but soon found another home at her longtime friend Oprah Winfrey’s media company. Since 2012 she has also anchored CBS Mornings, through several cohost changes and most recently a management shake-up.