McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm. We are the trusted advisor to the world’s leading businesses, governments, and institutions. We help leaders make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements to the performance of their organizations. We tackle their most difficult issues and serious challenges. We provide our people an outstanding place to work, with opportunities for growth that they can find nowhere else.

Who we are

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. 

What we do

Our clients call us when they have something pressing on their minds—whether it is a major strategic or operational need or an organizational challenge. They look to us for honest, objective, thoughtful, and experienced advice.

Our clients talk to us when they find themselves under pressure to deliver results. They call us in uncertain times. They talk to us when information is difficult to get and insights are scarce. They call us when they need to make decisions that will have major consequences for their people, their organizations, and the countries in which they operate. They call us when they want a truly global perspective.

With our broad reach across industries, functions, and geographies, we speak our clients’ language. We live where they live. We understand their business.

We help people and companies explore extraordinary opportunities, manage and sustain growth, and maximize revenue.

We do this using these core principles:

Follow the top management approach
We find and solve the most critical and challenging problems. We take an overall, independent, and fact-based view of a client’s performance. We rely on facts because they provide clarity and align people. Facts are the global management language. We work with facts to provide credible recommendations. We work directly with leaders who can partner with us to develop and accept recommendations and have the ability to implement them.

Use our global network to deliver the best of the firm to all clients
No one at McKinsey "owns" a client relationship. We rely on multiple people, not a single consultant or a single office, to provide leadership and our high standard of client service in each situation. We draw on our global network of internal or external expertise to bring together the right minds for the right solutions.

Bring innovations in management practice to clients
Our clients need new insight. We ask our people to bring their best thinking to our clients. We invest significant resources in building knowledge. We see it as our mission to bring this knowledge to our clients and we publish it for the benefit of business and government leaders worldwide and to force ourselves to think about what is next.

Build client capabilities to sustain improvement
We work with our clients as we do with our colleagues. We build their capabilities and leadership skills at every level and every opportunity. We do this to help build internal support, get to real issues, and reach practical recommendations. We bring out the capabilities of clients to fully participate in the process and lead the work after we have left.

Build enduring relationships based on trust
We earn our clients’ trust. We do this through our consistently superior service, our professional conduct, and our complete commitment.

History

When James O. McKinsey founded McKinsey in 1926, he could not have imagined the reach his small firm would eventually have.  More than 75 years later, the firm has grown into a global partnership serving three of the world's five largest companies and two-thirds of the Fortune 1000.

McKinsey already had an established practice in budgeting and finance when he decided to test his theory that so-called "management engineers" could go beyond rescuing sick companies to helping healthy companies thrive and grow. His vision opened the door to others who shaped a new profession as they built one of the world's best-known professional services firms.

And through the years, his original mission has remained the same (with a little rewording from decade to decade): to help clients make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in their performance and to build a great firm that is able to attract, develop, excite, and retain exceptional people.

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