McKinsey at 75+
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
Fortune1000.
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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