The path to value keeps moving. So do your targets. Your strategy must move with them. We help leaders anticipate what’s next, make the big moves that matter, and turn decisions into lasting impact.
New Book
Strategy and Value
The enduring principles of value creation matter more than ever. Strategy and Value shows how leaders can look beyond short-term metrics, make better strategic choices, and build companies that create sustainable value over time.
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Deep industry insights
Our industry experts bring deep knowledge of sectors, geographies, and competitive dynamics to help leaders separate signal from noise and identify new sources of value and advantage.

Client impact obsession
We work alongside leaders to turn strategic choices into action, mobilize resources, overcome organizational inertia, and keep strategy moving as new opportunities and challenges emerge.

Global strategy expertise
We combine leading strategy thinking with distinctive data, tools, and insights to help leaders challenge assumptions, anticipate what’s next, and understand where value is moving.
Strategy Intelligence
See what matters. Decide what moves.
Strategy & Corporate Finance Analytics
We help clients make better strategic decisions through a deeper understanding of corporate performance, value creation, macroeconomic forces, and global and local trends.
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Strategy and Value: The Four Foundations That Drive Long-Term Performance
The fundamental principles of long-term value creation remain a leader’s surest guide. Strategy and Value moves beyond short-term metrics to focus on what drives sustainable value and provides a road map for building resilient, high-performing companies.
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Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, 8th edition
At the crossroads of corporate strategy and finance lies valuation. This book enables everyone, from the budding professional to the seasoned manager, to excel at measuring and maximizing shareholder and company value.
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McKinsey on Finance, #91 “Strategy’s biggest blind spot: Competitive advantage”
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Perspectives for CFOs and other finance leaders
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CEO Excellence
What if the world’s highest-performing CEOs held a master class to share the skills and practices that have driven their success over the years?
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A CEO for All Seasons: Mastering the Cycles of Leadership
From McKinsey & Company senior partners and the minds behind the New York Times bestseller CEO Excellence comes a compact, insight-packed guide to navigating the four distinct phases of leadership that every CEO must pass through on their way to mastery.
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Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick
Provides you with practical advice on how to change the dynamics in your strategy room and make the right strategic moves.
Thinking that keeps strategy moving

Matt Banholzer
Senior PartnerChicago
Helps companies transform their growth and innovation, identifying new opportunities and building an engine to sustain them

Kevin Carmody
Senior PartnerPhoenix
Leads holistic, at-scale transformations and has deep experience in corporate finance, operational turnarounds, and change management...

Alex D’Amico
Senior PartnerConnecticut – Darien
Leads McKinsey’s strategy work for North America and coleads it globally, offering advisory support to a wide range of financial...

Ryan Davies
Senior PartnerWashington DC
Helps clients execute large-scale transformations to create substantial and enduring improvements in organizational performance...

Carolyn Dewar
Senior PartnerBay Area
Delivers large-scale performance-improvement programs that foster culture change and counsels senior executives making leadership...

Jake Henry
Senior PartnerChicago
Leads McKinsey’s global work on mergers, acquisitions, separations, divestitures, partnerships, and JV’s/alliances. Serves leading...

Marcus Jacob
Senior PartnerBerlin
Advises retail and consumer-packaged-goods companies across Europe on a variety of strategy and corporate finance initiatives,...

Alejandro Krell
Senior PartnerPanama City
Leads our Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice in Latin America. Supports large companies in shaping their strategy, building...

Sébastien Lacroix
Senior PartnerParis
Global coleader of our Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice. Also leads McKinsey’s work with financial institutions in France....

Kurt Strovink
Senior PartnerNew York
Leads our CEO services globally and serves on our Shareholders Council, McKinsey’s board of directors; advises life- and wealth-management,...

Mieke Van Oostende
Senior PartnerBrussels
Serves clients in the financial-services sector, particularly on strategy, organization, and risk management, with a global reputation...

Andy West
Senior PartnerBoston
Global coleader of our Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice; helps organizations accelerate sustainable, inclusive growth through...






