McKinsey's Managing Director Rajat Gupta on leading a knowledge-based global consulting organization

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Executive Overview Since its founding 75 years ago, McKinsey & Company's primary mission has been to help clients achieve substantial, lasting improvements in their strategies, organizations, and operations. The consulting firm's more than one thousand clients include 100 of the 150 largest global companies, as well as governments, institutions, and nonprofit organizations. With 84 offices worldwide. McKinsey operates as a global network guided by its “One Firm” concept of a common service standard for all clients. Projects have included designing the original organization of NASA, developing the Universal Product Code, and providing advice on the German, Russian, and South Korean economies. In July 2000, Rajat Gupta began his third three-year term as managing director of McKinsey & Company. In an age of revolving-door senior executives, his career stands as a testimonial to institutional loyalty and the virtues of professional renewal. Born in New Delhi in 1948, he joined McKinsey in New York in 1973 wit...