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Our Mission and Values
The Principles That Define Us

McKinsey has a dual mission: to help our 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.
 
We support our mission with our values:

Adhere to the Highest Professional Standards

  • Put client interests ahead of the Firm's
  • Observe high ethical standards
  • Preserve client confidences
  • Maintain an independent perspective
  • Manage client and Firm resources cost-effectively 

Improve Our Clients' Performance Significantly

  • Follow the top-management approach
  • Use our global network to deliver the best of the Firm to all clients
  • Bring innovations in management practice to clients
  • Build client capabilities to sustain improvement
  • Build enduring relationships based on trust

Create an Unrivaled Environment for Exceptional People

  • Be nonhierarchical and inclusive
  • Sustain a caring meritocracy
  • Develop one another through apprenticeship and mentoring
  • Uphold the obligation to dissent
  • Govern ourselves as a "one Firm" partnership


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