New Delhi, Jan. 15 -- Consulting giant McKinsey aims to hire liberal arts candidates whom it had previously deprioritised, in an effort to boost creativity as it incorporates AI into its operations.

In an interview with Harvard Business Review, McKinsey & Company's global managing partner Bob Sternfels said, "We're starting to figure out which backgrounds tend to produce the most-creative solutions, beyond just the next logical step. We're looking more at liberal arts majors, whom we had deprioritised, as potential sources of creativity."

With Sternfels' statement, McKinsey joins the list of companies looking to hire liberal arts graduates, including Ravi Kumar S, CEO of IT firm Cognizant Technology Solutions, who says he is actively re...