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May 21, 2012
New York, NY—May 21, 2012—Veteran Bain & Company partner, and former chief executive of Princess Cruises and president of Teleflora, Phil Kleweno, has been appointed managing director of the global consulting firm’s soon-to-launch Washington, D.C. office.
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May 19, 2012
| The Economist
Rob Markey is quoted in The Economist on retail banking customer strategy trends. "Rob Markey thinks that people 'crave physical interactions with human beings in the branch' to make them feel that their money is well looked after.
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May 18, 2012
| The Wall Street Journal
Bruno Lannes, partner at Bain & Company, is quoted in a Wall Street Journal article on the downward trend in luxury gift-giving. "Luxury segments that aren't as reliant on business gifts are experiencing less-drastic slowdowns, Mr. Lannes said.
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May 17, 2012
BAIN & COMPANY’S ISTANBUL OFFICE OPENS, SERVING CLIENTS IN DYNAMIC TURKISH MARKETS Consulting firm launches 47th office where East and West, developed and developing converge
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May 17, 2012
| Private Equity | Forbes.com
2011’s “split personality” turned what started out as a healthy year for PE investments into an unexceptional one, due to the dramatic fall-off in deal activity in the year’s second half. Costlier, and for some GPs scarcer, leverage combined with volatile equity markets inevitably drove a wedge
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May 15, 2012
LUXURY GOODS MARKET PREDICTED TO GROW SIX TO SEVEN PERCENT IN 2012, DEFYING GLOBAL TURMOIL AND SPREADING TO NEW MARKETS, ACCORDING TO SPRING UPDATE OF BAIN & COMPANY’S LUXURY GOODS WORLDWIDE MARKET STUDY
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May 15, 2012
| Bloomberg
Bain & Company's China Private Equity Report is featured in a Bloomberg article by Cathy Chan. Chan quote the report stating, "while the number of foreign-currency funds in China fell to 25 last year from 44 in 2008, domestic ones increased to 129 from 70.
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May 15, 2012
| Consumer Products | Forbes.com
Companies that are truly global players, pursuing opportunities in both developed and developing markets, face the tricky challenge of figuring out the most effective role for the company’s center: one that optimizes the allocation of resources across regions, but also supports regional and local
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May 14, 2012
| Fast Company
Bain & Company alumni, Adam Braun, is featured in a Fast Company article on the founding of his non-profit organization Pencils of Promise. "Braun graduated from Brown University, he went to work as a consultant at Bain & Company. Why?
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May 10, 2012
| Private Equity | Forbes.com
Although for PE 2011 was lackluster overall, last year was a tale of two halves, with PE experiencing both boom and bust compressed into a single 12-month span. In a series of posts over the coming weeks, we will describe how the interplay of macroeconomic conditions and circumstances unique to the
