Coronavirus Insights

The global Covid-19 pandemic is exacting a terrible human toll and menacing the world economy. Across industries, companies should act now to protect their employees and customers—and prepare now for the world beyond coronavirus. Explore our Insights page to filter by industry.

Aviation

Air Travel Forecast to 2030: The Recovery and the Carbon Challenge

Three charts illustrate how CO2 mitigation costs and inflationary pressures are dampening the aviation demand outlook, despite the return to prepandemic levels.

Operations

Cash Management Practices to Weather a Downturn

Take an honest look at the business, and decide where to improve.

Consumer Products

Ramping Up Online Grocery without Breaking the Bank

Bain’s Marc-André Kamel discusses the challenges that online grocery presents for retailers and CPGs and how they can pair up to find a winning solution.

Retail

Online Grocery: A Joint Challenge for Retailers and CPG Suppliers

While online grocery has continued to surge, grocers and consumer packaged-goods groups must work together to fix the dilutive economics of the channel.

Aerospace & Defense

Five Key Challenges for the Airline Industry

Bain's Geoffrey Weston discusses the main obstacles airlines are facing as some tourism resumes this summer.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Asia-Pacific Telemedicine Platforms Will Long Outlast Covid-19

The continued adoption of digital health tools has improved patient outcomes, lowered costs, and alleviated overburdened hospitals.

Strategy

Roadmap for a Post-Pandemic World

Bain Partner James Allen shares how CEOs can sustain the speed and adaptability that their organizations uncovered during the crisis.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Will Covid-19 Hurt or Help Healthcare Companies? It Depends

Prospects have improved for alternative sites of care, telemedicine, modernization of clinical trials, and healthcare provider consolidation.

Retail

The Future of European Grocery Retailing: Strategy after the Lockdown Surge

Incumbents gained a four-year reprieve in the pandemic. Here’s how to use it.

Social Impact

The Last Straw for US Higher Education—and a Moment for Reinvention

Financial viability will depend on new models once considered out of bounds.

Mergers and Acquisitions

How Covid-19 Transformed M&A

Key highlights from our annual report include the continued rise of scope deals and the rapid digitalization of M&A.

Retail

Brilliant Under Pressure: The Global Diamond Industry 2020–21

Our tenth annual report looks at performance in 2019, reviews the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, and updates our long-term outlook for the diamond industry through 2030.

Advanced Manufacturing & Services

Industrial Companies Struggle to Chart Path to Covid-19 Recovery

Many are having trouble defining the right moves to achieve long-term success.

Aviation

Measuring Covid-19’s Impact on Airline Customer Experience

NPS Prism data reveals that, while safety is the top concern, other “moments of truth” can still matter.

Retail

The Future of Luxury: Bouncing Back from Covid-19

Our 2020 Luxury Goods Worldwide Market Study outlines the pandemic’s drastic impact on the industry and points to a path to recovery.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Telehealth: The Evolution of Medicine

Bain Partner Laila Kassis outlines how the Covid-19 pandemic has drastically accelerated telehealth services in the US.

Operations

Dispelling Five Myths on Business Resilience

Bain partners discuss how companies can identify and overcome common misconceptions to put a coherent resilience strategy in place.

Freight & Logistics

The Future of Airline Hubs in Asia-Pacific

Bain experts discuss forecast scenarios for air travel in the region and their implications for the world’s leading airports and network hubs.

Consumer Products

Covid-19 Catapults White Goods Makers into the Digital Future

As consumers shift to buying appliances online, leaders develop direct-to-consumer channels.

Retail

Pandemic Spurs a Transformation of the Luxury Market

With sales down significantly in 2020, luxury retailers are reinventing themselves to survive.

Retail

How Covid-19 Has Accelerated the Transformation in Luxury

Bain’s Claudia D’Arpizio and Federica Levato discuss the pandemic’s effect on the luxury market in 2020 and how this massive disruption is shaping the industry’s future.

Strategy

Covid-19 Has Upended Business. Which Trends Will Stick?

Businesses can use four tools to forecast the turning point for new technologies and trends.

Consumer Products

How the Pandemic Is Changing Consumers

Consumers in the US and Europe are adjusting to a new reality that could shape their purchasing habits for years to come.

Consumer Products

After Five Years of Premiumization, Covid-19 Delivers Deflation in China FMCG

China Shopper Report 2020, Vol. 2

Energy & Natural Resources

Downstream Resilience in Refining

Bain's José de Sá and Dave Rennard, together with Shaun Boardman from Advisian, discuss the importance of resilience in the downstream oil and gas industry.

Pharmaceuticals

A Strategy to Make Pharma Supply Chains More Resilient

Flexible contracts, modular manufacturing and improved network visibility help reduce risk.

Operations

Shock-Proof: How to Forge Resilient Supply Chains

Flexibility is in, dependence on one region or country is out.

People and Organization

Tested by Fire: Three Keys to Making Better Decisions through Disruption

Leading companies are building on lessons of Covid-19 to make better and faster decisions.

Retail

Wider Divide: Serving Consumers as the Middle Class Fades

The swelling ranks of lower-income households will require many companies to improve their value-for-price equation.

Grocery

US Grocers: Assessing Customer Advocacy during Covid-19

Warehouse clubs strengthen in our annual survey of shoppers’ willingness to recommend grocery retailers, but pickup services stumble.

Retail

Will Covid-19 Change “Singles Day”?

The year 2020 will be a pivotal one for China’s annual shopping festival.

Automotive

How Auto Suppliers Can Navigate through the Downturn

Experts with Bain and BDO discuss how automotive companies can weather the massive challenges brought by the Covid-19 pandemic and emerge stronger than their competitors.

Operations

Covid-19 Exposed the Fragility of Global Supply Chains

Leading manufacturers are investing to improve network flexibility and resilience.

Private Equity

Is Your Portfolio Company’s Value Creation Plan Still on Track?

Given all that is changing post–Covid-19, few investment strategies are immune to disruption.

Retail

2020 Holiday Shopping Outlook

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s holiday will look different than usual, but it’s still likely to bring some cheer.

Telecommunications

Driving Digital Transformation during Uncertain Times

Bain Partner and TM Forum Chairman Steffen Roehn discusses how the communications industry has risen to the challenge amid the Covid-19 pandemic and other takeaways from the Digital Transformation World Series 2020.

Consumer Products

Leading through a Global Crisis: A Conversation with GOJO CEO Carey Jaros

Bain's Manny Maceda welcomes Carey Jaros, whose company makes Purell hand sanitizer, to discuss how the business quickly pivoted its operations as the Covid-19 pandemic surged.