Reputation has always mattered — but in today’s hyper-competitive, knowledge-driven economy, it’s more valuable than ever. Nowhere is this truer than in investment banking. Even as the bond between highly skilled individuals and organizations becomes frayed at mediocre firms, it becomes stronger at prestigious ones. It also increasingly explains why they are high-performing firms.

Centerview — The Gold Standard in Investment Banking explores Centerview’s reputation through the lens of a large group of C-suite executives and senior managers from Fortune Global 500 and Forbes Global 2000 companies. This multi-year, global research effort evaluated Centerview across six key performance dimensions: client focus, external engagement, competitiveness, leadership and employee quality, innovation, and business model efficiency and effectiveness. The report focuses exclusively on Centerview and the investment banking industry.

An investment bank’s collective character — its identity and influence — lives in its reputation. The most admired investment banks share a single defining trait: an excellent reputation that attracts the best of the best, inspires employees, and wins client trust — worldwide.

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