Michael Birshan
The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Michael Birshan presents as a classic Strategist, consistently framing complex challenges through structured, multi-horizon thinking. In this interview, Birshan demonstrates a rigorous analytical approach to navigating the net zero transition, innovation at scale, and corporate resilience, repeatedly organizing his answers into clear frameworks such as his three-part transition playbook for incumbents.
“And by the way, in many cases need for a bunch of existing assets, investments, technologies. And actually, it's going to be interesting. There will be some green investments that lose a ton of money. There will be some that command premium. There will be some what you might call brown, where you have all sorts of stranded asset risk.”
“What did each of those institutions give you? Harvard is easy because it gave me my wife, who I met at business school, which was by far the best thing 15 years of happy marriage, but also both gave were a great group of friends and connections that have just grown over time. I think the educational system is somewhat different.”
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Money Maze Podcast: “The View from McKinsey - With Michael Birshan, Global Co-Leader of their Strategy and Corporate Finance Practice”
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