Overview
Lessons and challenges
Reflections on 20 years of McKinsey on Finance—and three challenges ahead
Revolutionary innovations, brilliant ideas, and climate imperatives will change everything—except the fundamentals of finance and economics.
Compendium insights
Fundamentals of strategy and value creation
How is value created—and destroyed? A closer look at corporate finance, its bond with strategy, and the benefits of value creation.
Strategic combinations and divestitures
Who is, and isn’t, the best owner of a business? Why might the answers change? Lessons about when and how to grow.
ESG
A long-term perspective is essential for value creation—all the more so when the challenges and consequences of externalities are increasingly top-of-mind.
CFOs and the evolving finance function
Building a leading-edge, digital-first, and strategy-minded finance function takes a lot more than delivering quarterly and annual reports.
Debiasing investment and strategy decisions
For decades, we’ve been exploring how leaders can push their organizations to debias decisions, particularly on resource allocation and strategy.
Charting growth
Article
Looking back: What does the ‘long term’ really mean?
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Stock markets can be volatile, and some years they decline. But the ups far outnumber the downs—and returns are in line with two centuries of performance.
McKinsey on Finance, Number 80
McKinsey on Finance: 20th anniversary edition
Reflections on sustainable, inclusive growth.
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Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, 8th edition
At the crossroads of corporate strategy and finance lies valuation. This book enables everyone, from the budding professional to the seasoned manager, to excel at measuring and maximizing shareholder and company value.