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