In early 2021, Newport asked almost 100 mid-market CEOs, across multiple industries throughout the United States, to share their experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic.
We surveyed them across a variety of topics – from impacts on their business to current priorities. Our study confirmed that, as our traditional life ground to a halt in almost every region of the world, mid-market businesses were hit hard.
But entrepreneurship, flexibility and creativity are second nature to mid-market leaders. While the pandemic created an incredibly challenging business environment, many of them rose to the challenge – quickly making operational adjustments and deploying an array of incremental changes, that in many cases, resulted in growing their business.
In Newport’s report, we examine how mid-market leaders have navigated the business environment created by the pandemic, the impacts on growth, profitability and transactions (M&A) activity, and the way forward in the post-pandemic business environment.