Tom Reichert

Just launched: BCG’s M&A Sentiment Index—a monthly pulse check on dealmakers' willingness to engage in mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures over roughly the next six months. For the first time, decision-makers in corporations, private equity firms, and investment banks have a quantified and statistically reliable indication of where the M&A market is heading. The index’s interactive features allow users to view sentiment globally, as well as across individual regions and sectors. Leaders can now use the index, along with BCG’s proprietary insights on deal drivers and trends, to make informed judgments about the M&A market’s trajectory in the near to medium term. Step into the future of M&A and see what the index score is telling us today: https://lnkd.in/dNjUqd9N

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As sustainability goals meet the realities of implementation, companies are recalibrating their timelines and ambitions. Bain experts offer guidance on navigating complex transitions in the energy, food, and technology sectors. Read the full report here. https://bit.ly/47rqXUM

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Business transformations aren’t uncommon: Our research shows that more than one-third of large companies are currently in a transformation effort. But are they successful? In this installment of The Bain Brief, we offer our insights on #TransformationsThatWork.

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As sustainability goals meet the realities of implementation, companies are recalibrating their timelines and ambitions. Bain experts offer guidance on navigating complex transitions in the energy, food, and technology sectors. Read the full report here. https://bit.ly/4e5O5dH

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Despite rising urgency to combat climate change, there is a staggering gap in financing climate action. When the costs of inaction are taken into account, the economic case for climate action is clear. In BCG's new article, "The Cost of Climate Inaction Can Spur Collective Action," Sylvain Santamarta and Annika Zawadzki share insight on strengthening the fight for climate action by highlighting economic impacts. In Australia and New Zealand, the case for action is equally as strong. Learn more about how collective, accelerated action can help remedy the climate crisis here: https://lnkd.in/gav4-ewF

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Integration is key here; ESG is not just about compliance, it's also about how ESG impacts the value creation potential, either as an opportunity or as a constraint. I recommend engaging with Will and our team on this crucial subject

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In a new interview with Fortune's CEO Daily, Bain's Worldwide Managing Partner Christophe De Vusser shares how we have not yet reached the tipping point with generative AI, and explains how we're helping our clients shape the future and reinvent industries. https://dy.si/jYVgMy

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Bain & Company’s 2024 M&A Midyear Report has arrived. Dive into expert insights from my colleagues David Harding, Dale Stafford, and Suzanne Kumar as they dissect the M&A landscape for the first half of 2024 and highlight key sector trends. https://dy.si/yFgKTk

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Learning from New CEOs Last week Rich Lesser, Matthias Tauber and I hosted our annual New CEO Forum in Paris with 13 new enterprise CEOs who lead companies in a broad range sectors across financial services, industrial goods, healthcare, energy and more, headquartered in a diverse set of European markets. We discussed how CEOs today can create resilient organizations that demonstrate agility in addressing the increasing short-term pressures on their businesses while also investing deliberately to drive sustained growth and innovation. We reflected how leaders can transfer the capabilities that their teams honed in crises – when people pull together with a shared sense of purpose, accountability and the imperative of effective decision making – into a ‘steady state’ of running the business that is markedly more volatile than it used to be. And Bruce Cleaver, former CEO of de Beers, shared his perspective on CEOs needing to turn a 'burning platform' (that is intuitively understood in any crisis) into a 'burning ambition' for ‘peacetime operations’. What truly impressed me was the pervasive sense of humility of the CEOs present: all of them emphasized how much they rise and fall with the shared ambition, energy and support of their team We left energized and hopeful for the future, knowing these leaders are at the forefront of world changing businesses. Find further readings on shaping high performing teams here: https://lnkd.in/dNP6hYG4

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Once every two months, Re:think delivers fresh ideas from our partners in 700 words or less. They recently had Senior Partner and Co-Lead of McKinsey's global Strategy & Corporate Finance practice, Michael Birshan, share his insights on how to go faster and further during times of volatility. While I might personally argue that his post linking to The Economist's article on "The Gruffalo" going global was one of the most influential things he's written (my circle of parents and kiddie lit lovers found the article fascinating), this Re:think piece makes for a a very valuable read of a different sort! #ReThink #Finance #StrategicCourage #McKinseyGMS

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