Leadership lessons from private equity CEOs

Companies backed by private equity (PE) tend to transform faster and more often than public or family-owned firms do, leading to consistently outperforming their peers. Marla Capozzi (mckinsey.com/our-people/marla-capozzi) and Sacha Ghai (mckinsey.com/our-people/sacha-ghai), McKinsey leaders, researched nearly 300 CEOs across PE and private-capital companies to define their tactics and share their best practices with others. They and their coauthors published the findings in a recent Harvard Business Review article (hbr.org/2025/11/what-every-company-can-learn-f…), and in this episode of The McKinsey Podcast (mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-podcast), they speak with Editorial Director Roberta Fusaro about lessons from PE that any company can implement.
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