Bain Classics

Getting Business Resilience Right

Five myths stand in the way of allowing a company to hedge against, absorb and recover from the inevitable shocks to its system.

What Gets in the Way of Great Strategy?

Seven common pitfalls trip up leadership teams.

The Firm of the Future

We're beginning to see what the next generation of successful companies will look like.

Embracing Agile

Agile methodologies, which helped revolutionize IT, are spreading across a broad range of industries and functions.

Reigniting Growth

Three qualities can help any company restart its growth engine by removing gunk and complexity that has built up over the years.

Anatomy of a Digital Forerunner

Five key characteristics of the companies that combine scale with digital agility.

Rebooting IT: What Separates Digital Leaders from the Rest

To meet rising customer demands and capture fast-moving opportunities, most organizations will need to completely change the way IT works.

Cutting through the Complexity of Compliance

A clean-sheet approach allows the compliance function to improve decision making and manage risk.

Breaking Out of the No-Growth Trap

Many companies are holding on to their cash or returning it to shareholders when they could be investing in growth.

The Journey North

Why are so many fast-growing, disruptive companies able to run circles around larger, slower multinationals?

How to Be a Better Boss

Coaching your team to make and execute critical decisions leads to higher productivity and engagement.

Digital-physical mashups

As the digital revolution progresses, companies must fuse their digital and physical worlds.

デジカル（digital + physical）革命の推進

Your Scarcest Resource

Time is money, but few organizations treat it that way.

Results Delivery: Managing the highs and lows of change

Major change initiatives provoke wild mood swings, which cloud people’s judgment and lead to bad decisions. Companies that have mastered change know how to anticipate those swings and counter the serious risks they create.

Founder's Mentality®: The Path to Scale Insurgency

How fast-growing companies can capture the benefits of scale and scope by maintaining a Founder's Mentality®.

The keys to effective learning

Net Promoter System empowers employees by teaching them the skills they need to generate loyalty and enthusiasm among customers.

A world awash in money

Capital trends through 2020.

From feedback to action

The tight link between feedback and action is a key design element of Net Promoter System. The systems provide different kinds of feedback, and they encourage action at multiple levels of the organization.

The focused company

Unnecessary complexity cripples companies. But some have learned to root it out wherever it crops up.

Measuring decision effectiveness

Good, fast decision making and execution produce good financial results.

Bringing Your Strategy to the Front Line

If you can make your company's routine behaviors mirror your strategy, you can transform your business.

Using employee segmentation to bring out the best in your workforce

Employees, like customers, respond positively to offers customized to their needs and preferences.

The decision-driven organization

Forget the org chart—the secret is to focus on decisions, not structure.

Right-sizing the balance sheet

The benefits of a tightly managed balance sheet outweigh the benefits of cost cutting.

Mining Hidden Gems Often Pays Dividends

Nine out of ten companies find the secret to renewal is already within their walls.

Finding Your Next Core Business

How to know when your core business must change—and what to do next.

Turning your consumers into die-hard fans

Most senior executives at consumer products companies can say with complete conviction that their business strategy is entirely focused on the consumer.