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BCG aims to help the world’s best organizations make decisive improvements in their direction and performance by sparking breakthrough ideas for clients, the business world, and society at large.
BCG is founded by Bruce D. Henderson as the Management and Consulting Division of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company—itself a subsidiary of The Boston Company.
A former Bible salesman, Henderson had earned an undergraduate degree in engineering from Vanderbilt University before attending Harvard Business School. He left HBS ninety days before graduation to work for Westinghouse Corporation, where he became one of the youngest vice presidents in the company`s history. He would leave Westinghouse to head Arthur D. Little`s management services unit before accepting an improbable challenge from the CEO of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company to start a consulting arm for the bank. BCG aims to help the world’s best organizations make decisive improvements in their direction and performance by sparking breakthrough ideas for clients, the business world, and society at large. We continually strive to generate deep insight into what drives value creation and competitive advantage in our clients’ businesses and the economy as a whole. We work closely with clients to convert insights into strategies, whose implementation will have a substantial positive impact on performance. BCG aspires to achieve these goals with individuals as well as with organizations. We seek to inspire enterprising and imaginative people—at our clients and on our staff—with unparalleled opportunities for professional and personal growth. In this way, we hope to forge lifelong bonds with them.
BrandingIn a world where products, markets, and industry boundaries are in flux, a well-managed brand can be a prime source of strategic direction and competitive advantage.
Corporate FinanceWe combine BCG`s traditional expertise in corporate strategy with extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and postmerger integration, a proprietary value-management methodology, and new analytic approaches for understanding and responding.
DeconstructionThe turn of the last century saw the construction of the vertically integrated value chains that came to define modern business. And now, just a few years into a new century, we are witnessing their deconstruction.
Financial ServicesA new competitive landscape is emerging in financial services. Deregulation and the globalization of finance are inaugurating industry-wide consolidation as companies merge to gain economies of scale, eliminate excess capacity, and cut costs.
Industrial GoodsFor many industrial companies, traditional competitive models are producing rapidly diminishing returns. Their managers must go beyond the obvious in order to find new sources of profitable growth.
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