McKinsey February 19, 2025
McKinsey research and interviews with global leaders reveal the activities and discussions that CEOs should be directly involved in to ensure success before, during, and after M&A transactions.
The CEO’s agenda is chock-full of urgent global business concerns—and is only getting more so. Apart from overseeing the day-to-day blocking and tackling of the business, the chief executive must mobilize everyone in the organization to react quickly to evolving technologies, changing capital and talent markets, emerging geopolitical concerns, and a raft of other challenges to the business.
Through it all, the CEO must find ways to capture value-creating opportunities and grow the company. M&A (alongside portfolio momentum and market share performance) remains an important lever for doing just that—particularly as deal...