Bain & Company Is Bain going through the same tumultuous cycle as McK and doing voluntary layoffs / managing more people out? McKinsey & Company Bain & Company

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Personally, I know Bain partnership is a bit more willing to take a near term hit. The firm nearly went under when this wasn’t the case, which led to Mitt Romney coming back / Orit Gadiesh reorganizing the new Bain / ESOP buyout. There’s an old HBS case on this. Not to say it’s all roses, but many of the current senior partners lived through that, and they are less willing to do it again.

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Yes we are, but I've found my Bain peers to be much more defensive around anything negative relative to MB

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What type of start dates did they give to the 2024s. Hearing alot of Aug Sept Oct for Mck and BCG with a few Jan.

Got a half mil to take a long hike. Feels good maaan.

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Yes, but not as much it appears. London Consultants and Managers seem the exception.

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Yes but not as much from my network. Bain has largely skirted the issues other two firms have been dealing with.

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I mean everyone faced the same market slowdown

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Correct, but the size of hit a firm’s partners are willing to take can change the impact of that slowdown

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YES

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Not in the same way, no

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Did BCG and Bain go all in into growth mode after the pandemic bull market (specially for digital) like McK did or were they lore cautious?

That might explain how the heavy turn of the market impacted everybody differently…

Although looks like things are starting to turn as per this newsletter: https://the8020newsletter.substack.com?r=1ihrli

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