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M&A Midyear Outlook 2026: A Winner's Paradox

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By Dale Stafford, Kai Grass, Suzanne Kumar
| Bain & Company
The great M&A rebound of 2025 was no flash in the pan. In the first five months of 2026, the global M&A market is up 41%, on track for the second-highest year ever (see Figure 1). The rebound remains broad-based across markets and sectors as well as grounded in strategic transformations required in a rapidly changing world (see Figure 2), although financial sponsor deal value declined 9% (see Private Equity Midyear Report 2026).
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Global M&A momentum builds in 2026 as megadeals surge, but acquirers confront a new AI “winner’s paradox”—Bain & Company M&A Midyear Report

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By Suzanne Kumar
| Bain & Company
As bold deals reshape industries for a fast-changing world, leading companies must now pair complex integrations with the AI transformation that disruption demands June 29, 2026 min read Press release Global M&A momentum builds in 2026 as megadeals surge, but acquirers confront a new AI “winner’s paradox”—Bain & Company M&A Midyear Report Featured Experts
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Japan private equity remains a standout market as strong returns attract growing competition

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By Jim Verbeeten, Bunsho Kure
| Bain & Company
June 29, 2026 min read Press release Japan private equity remains a standout market as strong returns attract growing competition Featured Experts
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Full Potential: The Antidote to Satisfactory Underperformance

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By Hernan Saenz, Martin Toner, Sophie Horrocks
| Bain & Company
It has always been hard for companies to generate both economic profit and real top-line growth. Fewer than 20% are able to do this in any given year, and hardly any companies achieve both for 10 years in a row. And now, our research shows, it’s getting harder. Markets reward sustained value creation handsomely when they see it. But they’re also risk averse.
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Proprietary Intelligence: How to Win with AI

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By Sarah Elk, Chuck Whitten, Hernan Saenz
| Bain & Company
Most CEOs today will tell you they are serious about AI. They have approved budgets, launched pilots, stood up AI task forces, and explained to their boards how these activities will keep the business from falling behind. What most of them are actually doing, though, is managing an AI portfolio—a collection of experiments, proofs of concept, and incremental productivity tools—rather than leading an AI transformation. These are not the same thing, and the gap between them is widening fast.
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Global luxury stabilizes amid compounding disruptions as brands race to amplify meaning and rebuild relevance

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By Claudia D'Arpizio, Federica Levato
| Bain & Company
June 25, 2026 min read Press release Global luxury stabilizes amid compounding disruptions as brands race to amplify meaning and rebuild relevance Featured Experts
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Bain & Company announces partnership with Google Cloud to enable accelerated and secure, enterprise-scale AI transformations

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By Chuck Whitten
| Bain & Company
Partnership combines Google Cloud’s AI technology with Bain’s strategy and implementation expertise to accelerate and scale AI deployments June 24, 2026 min read Press release Bain & Company announces partnership with Google Cloud to enable accelerated and secure, enterprise-scale AI transformations Featured Experts
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Game Changers 2026: India Insurgent Brand Report

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By Joydeep Bhattacharya, Rohit Shankar, Bhavya Nand Kishore
| Bain & Company
India’s insurgent consumer brands continue to outpace the market, reaching $7.5 billion in FY25—a 3.75 times increase compared with FY20. These brands are growing 1.5 to 5 times their respective categories and are building new segments at breakneck speed.
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Databricks Data + AI Summit: The Lakehouse Becomes the Agentic Enterprise Control Plane

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By Dale Pedzinski, Willem Vervarcke, Shipra Arora
| Bain & Company
At the Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026, one message came through clearly: Enterprise AI is moving beyond agent demos and into agent operations. Databricks is no longer positioning its Lakehouse platform only as the place to store, query, and govern data but as the place where agents do the work of the business—under governance. Key announcements at the summit pointed to five reinforcing shifts: Context as production infrastructure.
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The Hard Truth about Operational Excellence with KKR’s Pete Stavros

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By Hugh MacArthur
| Bain & Company
If you ask Pete Stavros, global co-head of private equity and partner at KKR, how he’s navigating today’s markets, he’ll come right back to the industry’s fundamentals: sourcing proprietary deals and driving real operational improvements. It may sound like what you’d hear from any number of fund managers until he details the mechanics and rigor of KKR’s approach.
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