Corporate Finance Strategy Consulting

Today’s business leaders face an ongoing challenge: how do you create exceptional value in a world of rapidly shifting competitive advantage? They need strategic insights into how the world is likely to change—and the ability to leverage those insights for long-term success.

Strategy and value creation are part of BCG’s DNA. Through the experience curve, growth-share matrix, and digital deconstruction, BCG has been at the forefront of strategic innovation. Our corporate finance and strategy consulting team helps clients drive growth and attract talent, and a great stock, attracting investors, and delivering value for stakeholders.

Our Corporate Finance and Strategy Consulting Services

Corporate Strategy

Business Strategy

Value Creation Strategy and Shareholder Activism Defense

M&A, Transactions, and Post-Merger Integration

Strategic Planning Excellence

Finance Function Excellence

Family Business

How We Work with Corporate Strategy and Finance Clients 

Develop a clear vision: We help you devise a winning corporate strategy that identifies the optimal business portfolio, prioritizes the right growth platforms, and establishes a financial plan that drives value.
Define your journey: We help you develop a business strategy that not only takes the competition into account, but also affords you the creativity to follow your organization’s unique path to win.
Deliver and defend: We partner with you to shape corporate, business, financial and investor strategies that create sustained value, maximize results and shield against the rising tide of shareholder activism.
Maximize the value of transactions: We support your business with end-to-end transaction excellence, including strategic decision-making in mergers and acquisitions, supporting IPOs and spinoffs, and creating winning strategies for post-merger integration.
Remain agile and ahead: We help you improve overall strategy function by implementing planning processes focused on insight, preparedness, and agility for long term success.
Achieve superior business results: We help you build a world-class finance function and an approach to financial management that is aligned with strategy, digital, and adept at creating and sustaining a performance culture.
Prepare and mitigate: We provide strategic, transformational, and technical offerings in risk and compliance that help you turn uncertainty into opportunity.
Optimize success within family businesses: We help families in business navigate their distinct challenges and capitalize on their unique advantages.

Client Success in Corporate Finance and Strategy

We helped a semiconductor equipment company capitalize on an unexpected opportunity to enter an adjacent health care space; the move generated a third of the company’s revenue in the first five years and quadrupled its valuation.

Our Centers of Excellence

Center for CFO Excellence

BCG’s Center for CFO Excellence leverages the firm’s extensive experience in working with finance functions across diverse industries to help CFOs and their teams achieve the highest standard of performance and efficiency.

Strategy Enablement Center

BCG’s Strategy Enablement Center partners with companies to enhance the strategic capabilities of their people, and bolster strategy function throughout the entire organization.

Our Corporate Finance and Strategy Consulting Team

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Our Latest Thinking on Corporate Finance and Strategy

M&A Activity by Year: Collected Reports

BCG has published a mergers and acquisitions report—covering M&A activity by year, the current state of the M&A market, and perspectives on deal-making trends—annually since 2003. Explore the full series, including the latest BCG M&A report, here.

BCG Value Creators Report: The Collection

Companies can gain an edge by matching their strategic style to the conditions of their industry, business function, or geographic market, according to research featured in Harvard Business Review.