Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global consulting firm founded in 1963 by Bruce Henderson in Boston, Massachusetts. It partners with business and societal leaders to address challenges, capture opportunities, and drive transformations through strategy and innovation. With 33,000 employees in over 50 countries, BCG focuses on unlocking potential via insights, impact, complexity management, integrity, and growth of others.
Purpose and Values
BCG's purpose is unlocking the potential of those who advance the world, guided by principles like bringing insight to light, driving inspired impact, conquering complexity, leading with integrity, and growing by growing others. The firm upholds values of ethics and conduct, detailed in its Code of Conduct, which aligns actions with professional standards and includes updates on ethics, supplier conduct, and AI.
Expertise and Operations
BCG offers expertise across industries such as aerospace, automotive, energy, health care, and technology, as well as capabilities including artificial intelligence, business resilience, climate sustainability, digital transformation, and social impact. It operates through specialty businesses like BCG X for tech innovation, BCG Henderson Institute for ideas, and partnerships for procurement and public impact, emphasizing collaborative models to help clients thrive sustainably.
