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Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a platinum rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 1% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients.

IDEO (pronounced “EYE-dee-oh”) is a global design consultancy helping the world’s most audacious dreamers create braver tomorrows. We activate our science of design with the alchemy of our wide-eyed and wonderful creative people to make futures you can click, feel, taste, test, and believe in. Our early days were filled with designing groundbreaking physical products, but 40 years in, you’ll find that we’ve been busy working on the future of almost everything, from sustainable supply chains with H&M to design-oriented organizations with Ford, entire civic infrastructures with Intercorp—and so much more.

Lux Research helps organizations make more confident decisions about the opportunities that matter next. The world's leading companies rely on Lux to navigate uncertainty, identify emerging opportunities, and make smarter decisions about innovation and growth. For innovation leaders, that means identifying future growth opportunities, determining which technologies deserve investment, and selecting the right innovation partners. For insights leaders, it's identifying consumer opportunities, determining which cultural trends deserve action, and building products and brands that win. Our multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, anthropologists, and industry experts combines original primary research, proprietary methodologies, and AI-enabled tools to connect customer needs, technology innovation, and market reality. The result is better decisions that help organizations: • Prioritize investments by focusing resources on the opportunities with the greatest potential. • Reduce risk through independent expert judgment, primary research, and defensible decision frameworks. • Accelerate business impact by helping teams move from insight to action faster. Whether through ongoing research subscriptions with unlimited analyst access and Lux AI, or project-based advisory engagements, we help organizations separate signal from noise and focus on what matters next.