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      Business Strategy

      Business Strategy

      Achieve full potential, no matter how conditions change

      Highlights

      Our clients experience 2x TSR
      when compared to sector benchmarks
      Strategy demands execution
      88% of change efforts fail due to a strategy-execution gap

      The rules of strategy have changed. Profit pools are shifting faster than planning cycles. Industry boundaries are collapsing. AI is eroding traditional sources of advantage—often before businesses fully understand what’s happening.

      In this environment, sustainable advantage comes from bold choices and flexible, responsive execution. Winning strategies are not static plans; they are living agendas that evolve as conditions change.

      An adaptive, dynamic strategy ensures that your organization lives its full potential today and tomorrow, no matter how conditions change. We combine deep industry insight, proprietary data, and AI to help you decide where to play, how to win, what to change, and what to stop doing. We translate insight into compelling stories and robust plans that align and energize your organization to execute at speed.  We embed internal and external learning so that time, talent, and capital stay focused on what creates maximum value as markets, competitors, and technologies shift.

      Our Business Strategy Approach

      Our Business Strategy Approach

      Our clients choose us for the distinct expertise and collaboration model we bring to every strategy project:

      Investor mindset

      As the world’s leading private equity consulting firm, we bring the same discipline, pace, and ruthless prioritization of value creation to all our strategy work.

      Insights at scale

      Our proprietary data assets and AI tools are built on thousands of global strategy projects, enabling us to reveal (and predict) where value is shifting.

      Future-back sensing

      We help clients spot shifts early, invest ahead of the curve, make hard trade-offs, and unlock new sources of growth beyond the obvious plays.

      Results orientation

      We design strategies with implementation in mind from Day 1. Working side by side with you, we build conviction and ensure plans are pragmatic, executable, and set up to succeed.

      The Power of Future Back

      The Power of Future Back

      Imagine if you were the first to spot and respond to paradigm shifts in your industry. Our future-back approach helps you do just that.

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      The Power of Future Back

      Imagine if you were the first to spot and respond to paradigm shifts in your industry. Our future-back approach helps you do just that.

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      Client Results

      Financial Services

      A Bold New Strategy Restores a Bank to a Leadership Position
      Its holistic approach to simplification, execution discipline, and digitalization has proved transformational.

      Advanced Manufacturing & Services

      A Steel Company Seeks to Regain Market Leadership
      A host of factors bumped SteelCo from its dominant position. We helped it chart a new path forward.
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      Analyst Recognition

      Analyst Recognition

      We have been recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Innovation Consulting Services, Q2 2024.

      We have been recognized as a Leader by IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Enterprise Strategy Consulting Services 2025 Vendor Assessment.

       

      Our Business Strategy Insights

      Healthcare & Life Sciences
      Lean Strategy Making
      Standardizing your company’s approach can pay off. Here’s how.
      HBR.org
      Strategy
      Bain Beliefs on Strategy
      Companies that outgrow and outearn their peers live by these five lessons.
      Report
      Strategy
      How to Succeed in an Era of Volatility
      Invest in prediction, adaptability, and resilience.
      HBR.org
      Artificial Intelligence
      Unsticking Your AI Transformation
      Treating gen AI as a tool isn’t working. It’s time to redesign work, rethink operating models, and lead from the top.
      Brief
      The Visionary CEO’s Guide to Sustainability 2025
      The power of pragmatism.
      Report
      Transformation
      Transformations That Work
      Lessons from companies that are defying the odds.
      Harvard Business Review
      Strategic Planning
      Lean Strategy: Make Smarter Moves, Faster
      Bain's Michael Mankins and Thomas Sweet, former CFO of Dell Technologies, share how a lean strategy framework accelerates smarter decision-making and enhances performance.
      Webinar
      Accelerated Performance Transformation
      Tariff Response: What You Need to Know
      Bain's Karen Harris and Hernan Saenz discuss the lasting impact of tariffs, what leading companies are doing to adapt, and the strategic moves to make for success.
      Webinar
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      Our Business Strategy Experts

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      Hernan Saenz Partner Dallas

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      Sophie Horrocks Partner London

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      Tune Marschall Partner Zurich

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      Andrew Rodd Partner Melbourne

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      Alice Leonard Practice Vice President Boston

      Headshot of Tina Radabaugh

      Tina Radabaugh Partner Los Angeles

      Headshot of Jenny Lundqvist

      Jenny Lundqvist Practice Executive Vice President Copenhagen

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      Corporate Strategy

      Corporate Strategy

      Charting the right course to sustained value creation

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      Full Potential Transformation

      Full Potential Transformation

      Boldly alter your organization’s trajectory in pursuit of extraordinary results.

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      Change Management and Implementation

      Change Management and Implementation

      Because changeability is the new superpower

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      Organizational Design and Operating Model

      Organizational Design and Operating Model

      This is how you make your strategy happen

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      Macro Strategy

      Macro Strategy

      Stop planning. Start building.

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      Innovation & Business Building

      Innovation & Business Building

      Transform bold ideas into scalable businesses

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      Venture Ecosystem

      Venture Ecosystem

      The Venture Ecosystem is a global team of change-makers and thought-leaders with deep experience in the start-up and venture-capital worlds. Our mission is to spark innovation between bold organizations and insurgents by activating our global network of disruptors and investors.

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