Mariia's strategy experts help clients with their most complex strategic challenges and build tailored solutions to help them achieve sustained growth. Bain emphasizes mobilization from day one—we begin by helping clients choose where to focus in order to out-execute and out-invest their competition, and ultimately generate higher returns. 

Our areas of expertise include:

  • Fundamentals of growth: Only one in 10 companies succeeds in achieving sustained growth. We help companies grow by defining and focusing on their core.
  • Business unit strategy: Effective BU strategy requires making proprietary decisions on where to play and how to win. The goal is to drive a business to full economic potential.
  • Corporate strategy: Corporate strategy involves a proprietary set of actions that enables a company to be worth more than just the sum of its parts. The most critical role of the center is to help its business units achieve leadership positions.
  •  Innovation: Mariia works with clients to combine creative and analytic approaches to transform innovation for new product development and across the full customer experience.
  • Emerging markets: Home to most of the world’s population and growing at double-digit rates, emerging markets in Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe represent a must-win area for multinational companies. Mariia Kazakova helps companies navigate this unfamiliar terrain, competing against other multinationals and indigenous companies.
  • Sustainability: Mariia Kazakova helps companies develop renewable energy policies, realize the full potential of recycling processes, and identify the impact of trends and regulations, among other agendas.
Workshops: The strategy practice has a series of off-the-shelf workshops to help clients brainstorm opportunities, prioritize strategic options, and identify and discuss strategic needs and potential pitfalls.