A shift in global consulting firms' competitive positioning
02-Sep-2010
Kennedy Consulting Research & Advisory evaluates top performing consultancies and identifies crucial upsets along the way.
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McKinsey takes top spot for 9th straight year in Vault.com most prestigious consulting firm ranking
02-Sep-2010
Much in line with McKinsey’s repeat at the top, this year's prestige ranking showed a remarkably low rate of movement from last year.
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Vault.com ranks top consulting employers
30-Aug-2010
Bain & Company tops new ranking system as Best Consulting Firm to Work For; niche firms rise in prominence.
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BCG appoints new director of Health Services
05-Aug-2010
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has appointed Dr Graham Rich as Director of Health Services.
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Booz & Co and A.T. Kearney call off merger talks
07-Jul-2010
The companies said they are better off as separate firms.
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BCG named Best Turnaround Consulting Firm of the Year
30-Jun-2010
The firm also captured three other awards, including Turnaround Consultant of the Year, for work on the restructurings of General Motors and Chrysler.
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Consultants predict double digit growth for CRM work
10-Jun-2010
Sourceforconsulting.com research identifies why over a third of
CRM projects under deliver.
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BCG: Economic awakening underway in Africa
03-Jun-2010
Forty fast-growing and globalizing companies highlight Africa’s economic awakening, according to a report by The Boston Consulting Group.
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Boston Consulting Group says some market trends strengthen not weakened during recession
02-Jun-2010
Some 23 megatrends — including the Asian Ascent and E-Migration — strengthened in the Great Recession, and more than half of these trends drive markets larger than $500 Billion, according to new research by The Boston Consulting Group.
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Roland Berger adds 20 new consultants in financial services center
01-Jun-2010
Risk management expertise bolstered through integration of KDB, and insurance industry consulting expanded.
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Consulting firms among choice employers for US students
31-May-2010
Google is the #1 overall IDEAL Employer for the fourth year in a row among US undergraduate students; McKinsey maintains #2 spot.
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Turbulent economic future ahead
06-May-2010
Business leaders are more resigned to a turbulent economic future than they were at the height of the economic crisis, according to a new report by The Boston Consulting Group.
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Strategy firms rated highly in consulting thought leadership league table
22-Apr-2010
Deloitte and IBM highest ranked non strategy firms by White Space.
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The Boston Consulting Group to conduct strategic review for Dallas Regional Chamber
23-Mar-2010
The Dallas Regional Chamber has engaged global business consulting firm The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to conduct a strategic planning process to be completed mid-2010.
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The Boston Consulting Group: Leading IT units drive business change
16-Mar-2010
The IT organization can, and should, do far more than simply act as an order-taker.
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The Boston Consulting Group opens three new offices
11-Mar-2010
New offices include the consulting firm’s first in Africa, following strong showing in 2009.
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Accelerating out of the great recession
15-Feb-2010
New book from senior partners at The Boston Consulting Group discusses how to win in a slow-growth economy.
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Strategy consulting firms jolted into action
15-Feb-2010
Kennedy's research, "Strategy Consulting Marketplace," explains the key agents of change affecting the nature of Strategy consulting demand.
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Consulting firms ranked on FORTUNE's "100 Best Companies to Work For" list
02-Feb-2010
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has earned the distinction of being one of only three firms to be ranked in the top 15 of FORTUNE's "100 Best Companies to Work For" list for five consecutive years.
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BCG: Corporate recovery after recession should include rebuilding relationships with governments
28-Jan-2010
Many of the business leaders gathering this week for the annual World Economic Forum in Davos need to build stronger links with politicians and state officials as governments strive to reassert power and influence over the corporate world, according to a study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
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Co-Founder of Bain & Company joins Censeo's Board of Advisors
26-Jan-2010
Censeo Consulting Group, a specialist in operations, supply chain and acquisition, has appointed Patrick Graham, co-founder of Bain & Company, as a Senior Advisor and a member of its Board of Advisors.
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Dynamics within the Asia Pacific consulting marketplace put client organizations and consultants in a quandary
25-Nov-2009
The Asia Pacific consulting marketplace is projected to grow just over $10.5 billion between 2008 and 2012.
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The Boston Consulting Group picks recession winners by targeting long-term value creation
18-Nov-2009
Fast Retailing, Esprit Holdings, Shinsegae, British American Tobacco, and Imperial Tobacco Group are the first five global companies in BCG's Top 25 "consistent value creators in the consumer industry" over the past ten years.
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Consultancies dominate Top 10 list of most attractive employers
11-Nov-2009
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, KPMG, McKinsey and Deloitte top list of first global index of employer attractiveness.
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BCG retains two leading European leadership and change-management consultants
16-Oct-2009
Both Lenhardt and Buratti join from Transformance.
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Bain takes top slot in annual Consulting Magazine Best Firms to Work For survey
05-Oct-2009
It's seven straight years at No 1 for Bain.
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Majority of companies aren’t addressing sustainability and its impact on their businesses
28-Sep-2009
Global joint study by MIT Sloan Management Review and The Boston Consulting Group reveals major disconnect between corporate leaders' concern about the impact of sustainability on their business and the actions they are taking.
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Management consultants’ pay rises more elusive than bonuses
24-Sep-2009
Pay rises averaged just 3.6% of basic salary - for those that received any pay rise at all in the last 12 months - down from 6% in 2007, latest salary benchmarking report from Top-Consultant.com finds.
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Global consulting market -- Irreversibly changed
16-Sep-2009
Kennedy Consulting Research & Advisory analysts project that global consulting demand will not return to 2008 levels until 2012, conceding that the market has irreversibly changed and will unlikely experience the robust, double-digit growth in demand seen in the past three decades.
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North America overtaken by Europe as the world's richest region
16-Sep-2009
Global wealth slumped by more than $12 trillion in 2008 and is not expected to return to pre-crisis levels until 2013, says report by The Boston Consulting Group.
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Boston Consulting Group taps former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings as senior advisor
20-Jul-2009
Spellings, an expert in domestic policy, will advise the firm on its education work and other social-impact efforts.
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Great Depression survivors have lessons for today’s business leaders, says BCG
18-Jun-2009
Analysis of Depression-era winners -- Such as P&G, IBM, GE, DuPont, and Even GM and Chrysler -- reveals what it takes not only to survive the downturn but to thrive in the upturn.
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Hans-Paul Bürkner to serve third term as CEO of The Boston Consulting Group
07-May-2009
Bürkner, the first European to run the management consultancy, will lead the firm—founded in 1963—to the eve of its 50th anniversary.
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Boston Consulting Group to advise on GM, Chrysler restructuring
15-Apr-2009
The US government has hired Boston Consulting Group to advise General Motors and Chrysler, as the automakers work to overhaul their operations, under a contract that can be worth up to $7 million.
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Apple ranked most innovative company in the world
14-Apr-2009
The company tops BusinessWeek's fifth annual ranking of the 25 most innovative companies in the world.
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ASSEMBLY Magazine and The Boston Consulting Group to jointly sponsor award for "Assembly Plant of the Year"
03-Apr-2009
The award will recognize a manufacturing facility in the United States that has applied world-class processes to reduce production costs, increase productivity, shorten time to market, or improve product quality.
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MIT Sloan Management Review and BCG announce major collaboration on sustainability and management
24-Mar-2009
The Initiative will explore emerging thinking on sustainability and its implications for business strategy and organization.
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Satyam names CEO, special advisors; secures financing
11-Feb-2009
The company also named special advisors, who along with Boston Consulting Group, will work pro bono and help the new CEO and the board define key strategies.
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Verdantix: Make or break year for US climate change consultants
03-Feb-2009
During 2009 consulting firms that fail to establish their climate change expertise will miss out on the biggest opportunity in the consulting market for 20 years, according to independent research conducted by Verdantix.
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Companies from rapidly developing economies on the heels of Western multinationals
29-Jan-2009
Chinese, Indian, and Middle Eastern companies are among 19 new entrants to The Boston Consulting Group's annual list of global corporations shaking up the traditional world order.
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Satyam appoints The Boston Consulting Group as management advisors
28-Jan-2009
Goldman Sachs and Avendus tapped as investment bankers.
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The Boston Consulting Group best ranked consultancy on FORTUNE’s ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ list
26-Jan-2009
Firm jumps eight spots to break into top five at third place; retains first place among smaller companies and continues to take top honours among consulting firms.
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London 2012 appoints The Boston Consulting Group as tier three provider
20-Jan-2009
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has confirmed that The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has been chosen as its exclusive Strategic Consulting Provider and will be the first Tier Three Provider to London 2012.
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BusinessWeek names BCG Best Consulting Firm for Internships
12-Dec-2008
Firm ranks nineteenth on magazine’s annual list of the Top 50 Undergraduate Internships in the United States.
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Boston Consulting Group’s Jeanie Duck presented with Lifetime Achievement Award
05-Nov-2008
Jeanie Daniel Duck, a former senior partner with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and one of the consulting profession’s most accomplished women, has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award from Consulting magazine.
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Proudfoot Consulting appoints new European president
14-Oct-2008
Proudfoot Consulting, one of the world’s leading operational improvement consultancies, has announced the appointment of Jean Baron-Mazloumian as Unit President for Europe.
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Senior Financial Times editor joins BCG as first Editor-in-Chief
02-Oct-2008
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has hired Simon Targett, a senior editor at the Financial Times, as its first editor-in-chief.
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Volvo Ocean Race hires Boston Consulting Group
29-Sep-2008
The Volvo Ocean Race has appointed The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to assist in creating a strategy for the most challenging round-the-world race to become the world's undisputed sailing event.
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In an economic slowdown, a tighter focus on "lean" can boost P&L
24-Sep-2008
Seven factors improve the odds of lean success, says new BCG report.
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Consultants rank McKinsey as "Most Prestigious" consulting firm in Europe
17-Sep-2008
Praised as "the Rolls-Royce of the industry," McKinsey was ranked the number 1 consulting firm in Europe for the third consecutive year.
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BusinessWeek names BCG one of the ‘Best Places to Launch a Career’
12-Sep-2008
The firm ranks first among consultancies and 17th overall in its first appearance on the list.
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MIT students tackle real-world cases in consulting competition
27-Aug-2008
Ten groups of graduate students spent several hours on the assigned case -- based on the format often encountered during interviews for consulting positions -- and worked with firms such as the Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Company, and Liberty Mutual.
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Vault: McKinsey & Co. #1 in consulting for eighth straight year
26-Aug-2008
Annual US-based consulting survey reveals re-emergence of Big Four consulting.
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The Boston Consulting Group names Dominic Field Partner in Los Angeles
29-Jul-2008
Field is an expert in media, entertainment and technology.
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Rationalism trumps nationalism when Chinese consumers choose a brand
18-Jun-2008
A new BCG study finds that Chinese consumers are more practical than patriotic when it comes to choosing between foreign and local brands; and thanks to strategies that companies have borrowed from Chameleons and Hermit Crabs, some foreign brands do a good job of appearing to be local.
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The Boston Consulting Group: Investment banks show signs of recovery despite difficult market
17-Jun-2008
Excluding write-downs, first-quarter revenues of leading banks were actually 18 percent higher than in the previous quarter.
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Companies' go-to-market capabilities deemed ineffective, new CMO Council study reveals
11-Jun-2008
A global survey, conducted in partnership with The Boston Consulting Group, highlights pressing need to rethink and recalibrate marketing and sales processes, competencies and resources.
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Canada experiences a global phenomenon: Aging workforce creates talent gap
03-Jun-2008
Global survey of 4,741 executives in 83 countries, conducted by The Boston Consulting Group and the World Federation of Personnel Management Associations, identifies HR priorities of today and the future.
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Management consulting remains the No. 1 desired industry for MBAs
02-Jun-2008
Fears of a recession are not hurting Google, which reigns supreme on Universum IDEAL Employer Survey for MBA students.
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BCG wins Great Place to Work award for professional development
29-Apr-2008
"Culture of apprenticeship" is highlighted as firm receives annual honour from the Great Place to Work Institute.
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BusinessWeek ranks 25 most innovative companies in the world
23-Apr-2008
Apple, Google, Toyota Motor, and General Electric once again top the list of "The 25 Most Innovative Companies" in BusinessWeek's fourth annual special report, produced in collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group.
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Executives worldwide see talent gaps as top people challenge in every region and industry
15-Apr-2008
Global survey of 4,741 executives in 83 countries and markets, conducted by The Boston Consulting Group, World Federation of Personnel Management Associations, and Society for Human Resource Management, identifies HR priorities of today and the future.
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BCG senior partner honoured as Canadian of the Year
09-Apr-2008
David Pecaut shares Canadian Club Award with Tony Gagliano for co-founding world-class arts festival in Toronto.
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Companies from emerging markets redefining competition rules
28-Mar-2008
Companies from rapidly developing economies (RDEs) are redefining the rules for local competition in their home markets, thus putting the expansion plans of many global industry leaders at risk, The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) warns in a new report on 50 of the most impressive companies from RDEs.
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Boston Consulting Group's George Stalk identifies "five future strategies" top executives need today
26-Mar-2008
In a new book Stalk offers keen insights into how to turn each of these strategies into competitive advantage.
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Consultancies on Fortune's "100 Best Companies To Work For" list
28-Jan-2008
Boston Consulting Group, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Booz Allen Hamilton, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte & Touche USA have been named on Fortune magazine's 11th annual "100 Best Companies to Work For" list.
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Top consultancies named best companies for working mothers
03-Oct-2007
Some of the top consultancies have been named to Working Mother magazine's annual list of the "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers".
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New BCG study identifies major trends that will continue to drive M&A through volatile financial markets
20-Aug-2007
The report shatters several M&A myths and sheds light on keys to success in increasingly tough market.
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BCG: Global execs increasingly frustrated with innovation
08-Aug-2007
Leaders recognize innovation is critical, but many feel benefits are elusive; risk-averse culture and lack of speed seen as biggest obstacles.
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Hitachi Consulting managing VP named to top 25 consultants list
26-Jul-2007
The ranking of Tamra Chandler, managing vice president for Global Solutions and People for Hitachi Consulting, marks the third year in a row Hitachi Consulting has made the list.
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BCG highlights key ingredients for successfully integrating companies
25-Jun-2007
A new report from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) claims that one of the main reasons why more than half of all mergers and acquisitions fail to create shareholder value is that acquirers tend to treat postmerger integration (PMI) as a mechanical process that occurs after the deal is done.
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Consultancies' career website among top 30 in the US
25-Jun-2007
Deutsche Bank awarded Top US Corporate Career Website in the US.
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Talent management emerges as top European HR challenge
25-Jun-2007
The Boston Consulting Group and European Association for Personnel Management conducted a survey with 1,350 executives in 27 EU countries.
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Google deposes McKinsey as most desired MBA employer in the US
04-May-2007
Google claims number 1 position after McKinsey's 12-year reign as the Most Desirable Place to Work for MBA students in the US.
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US companies show renewed confidence in Germany as a business location
30-Mar-2007
Study finds that 57 percent of US companies intend to increase their investments in Germany, and 40 percent plan to create new jobs.
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