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We are the trusted advisor and counselor to many of the most influential businesses and institutions in the world. We serve more than 70 percent of Fortune magazine’s most admired list of companies.

We are problem solvers with a passion for excellence. We are intellectually curious and highly collaborative. We minimize hierarchy.

We don’t regard individuals based on their title, but their competence and leadership. We uphold the obligation – not a right, but an obligation – for each member of our firm to question anything that he or she feels is not right for a client.

We come from all over the world, with rich experience and all kinds of backgrounds and areas of expertise. We speak over 120 languages and represent over 100 nationalities.

We are a network of leaders. What we look for when we are hiring are individuals with leadership potential, integrity, a sharp analytical mind, creativity, and the ability to work with people at all levels in an organization.

We go to extraordinary lengths to support the people we hire to succeed. We have a passion for helping the people we work with. This passion to help continues in our alumni, who remain connected and loyal to our firm and its people. Those who join McKinsey join people bound by a shared set of values and a culture of support, caring, trust, respect, and interdependence.

Our firm is a global network of offices and practices led not by one person, but by our partnership group. We are not a corporation tied to earnings pressures. We are not here to increase returns to our shareholders. Instead, we constantly measure new ideas, opportunities, and ways of working against our values. When they fall short our choices are easy, clear, emphatic, and final: We say “no thank you.” When they measure up, our choices are equally easy, clear, emphatic, and final: We say “yes” and put the full weight of our firm behind them. 
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