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id: "entity-bain-and-company"
type: "entity"
entityType: "organization"
canonicalName: "Bain & Company"
aliases: ["Bain"]
source_timestamps: ["\\\"§ So Long", "Cheap Capital\\\""]
tags: ["consulting-firm"]
related: ["entity-michael-mankins", "entity-matthew-crupi", "concept-end-of-cheap-capital"]
sources: ["reskilling"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-reskilling"
originDay: 10
articleStem: "hbr-sig-49-ai-squeezing-middle-managers"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/ai-is-squeezing-middle-managers"
sourceTitle: "AI Is Squeezing Middle Managers"
---
# Bain & Company

**Profile.** Global management consulting firm; the canonical organizational context for the macro / capital-allocation claims in the source.

**Role in this source.** Employer of [[entity-michael-mankins|Michael Mankins]] and [[entity-matthew-crupi|Matthew Crupi]], whose research supplies the 'So Long, Cheap Capital' segment.

**Attributed work in this vault.** [[concept-end-of-cheap-capital]], [[concept-value-based-management]], [[claim-wacc-historical-norms]], [[claim-ai-drives-interest-rates]], [[claim-growth-over-returns-fails]], and [[framework-capital-allocation-constrained-world]].

Related: [[entity-michael-mankins]] · [[entity-matthew-crupi]] · [[concept-end-of-cheap-capital]]