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Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
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https://www.bcg.com/
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Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963.

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10,001+

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Consulting, Digital Solutions

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Africa, Asia, Europe, Latam, Middle East, North America, Oceania

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Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States Of America, Uzbekistan, Vietnam

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1963

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About Us

Where Strategic Clarity Meets Applied AI

Boston Consulting Group was founded in 1963 not as another management consulting firm, but as a pioneer of bold, new approaches to running a company. Bruce Henderson's conviction that strategy should be a firm's mark of distinction ignited a revolution that transformed business management forever—giving rise to landmark frameworks such as the growth share matrix and time-based competition that became business canon worldwide. Today, BCG has grown into the largest global management consulting partnership, reporting $14.4 billion in annual revenue and its 22nd consecutive year of growth. With more than 33,500 employees working across 100+ cities in over 50 countries, we serve 16 industries and 20 capability areas, supported by nine specialty businesses. Tech- and AI-focused services now represent more than 40% of total revenue. Our clients in BCG's Top 100 generate 12% higher shareholder returns compared to the S&P 1200. We are built for leaders who need more than advice—we deliver the kind of transformative impact that sticks, combining deep domain expertise accumulated over six decades with the applied AI capabilities that define this new era.

Who we are

Practitioners with a Bias for Action

We are BCGers—a global community of 33,500 people who lead with empathy and expertise, teaming shoulder to shoulder with our clients to navigate complexity and turn ambition into outcomes that matter. We are consultants, technologists, scientists, designers, data scientists, and sector specialists, united by a shared restlessness with the status quo and a deep belief that the right ideas, rigorously applied, can change the course of organizations and the world. Our people bring creative problem-solving, resilience, and adaptability to every engagement—working not just as advisors, but as practitioners embedded in the challenge alongside client teams. Once a BCGer, always a BCGer: our alumni network, with more than 700 alumnae holding C-suite positions, reflects the calibre and ambition of the people who define this firm. At BCG, we believe that only through people can we achieve excellence—a conviction instilled by Bruce Henderson and still the foundation of everything we do.

What we do

Beyond Strategy. Real Impact.

We partner with leaders in business and society to deliver transformative impact—combining strategic clarity, rooted in over 60 years of deep domain knowledge, with applied AI wielded by our practitioners to produce outcomes that are measurable, durable, and transferable. Our work spans 16 industries—from financial institutions and health care to energy, technology, retail, and the public sector—and 20 capability areas including artificial intelligence, business transformation, climate change and sustainability, digital and technology, M&A, marketing and sales, organization strategy, and operations. BCG X, our build-and-design unit, disrupts the present and creates the future by building new products, services, and businesses in partnership with the world's largest organizations. Our specialty businesses, including BCG BrightHouse, help organizations excavate and operationalize purpose. The result of all of this working together is stronger returns, transferred capabilities, and change that sticks.

Our Purpose

Unlocking the Potential of Those Who Advance the World

Our purpose is captured in one simple but demanding statement: unlocking the potential of those who advance the world. We live it every day through five purpose principles. We bring insight to light—challenging traditional thinking and bringing new perspectives to the toughest problems. We drive inspired impact—looking beyond the next deadline to the next decade, collaborating closely with clients to energize their organizations. We conquer complexity—discovering unique sources of competitive advantage and hidden truths in dynamic, complex systems. We lead with integrity—confronting hard issues, staying true to our values, and stating our views candidly and directly. And we grow by growing others—enabling our clients, colleagues, and the broader community to build on success and achieve their full potential. Purpose is not a backdrop at BCG; it is the engine.

Our Values

The Standards We Hold Ourselves To

Maintaining a strong culture anchored in clear, frequently communicated values is at the heart of what makes BCG a market leader. We are committed to the highest standards of ethics, business conduct, and company principles, and every BCGer is expected to uphold these standards in every engagement and every interaction. Our Code of Conduct—periodically reviewed to reflect developments in corporate ethics and compliance—serves as a bridge between our purpose, our values, and our global processes and policies, intended to foster integrity and inform decision-making. Alongside it sit our Supplier Code of Conduct and our AI Code of Conduct, reflecting our belief that responsible practice must extend across the entire value chain. For those who witness or experience anything that runs counter to our values, our Speak Up Line provides a confidential channel to report concerns—because integrity only functions when it is protected.

Our Partners

Partnership is one of BCG’s core values. We collaborate across a diverse ecosystem of partner organizations to drive shared value and innovation.


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Why working with us

Built for This Moment

We are navigating an era of unprecedented change and disruption—powered by technology, marked by complexity, where change amplifies at scale. To lead, organizations need a partner that can bridge the gap between ambition and outcomes. BCG is built for this moment. We bring strategic clarity informed by more than 60 years of deep domain expertise, ensuring leaders make the right choices. We combine that clarity with applied AI—shaped and deployed by our own practitioners, working shoulder to shoulder with your teams—to deliver transformative impact at scale. The evidence is in the results: a 15-year best-performance transformation at Heathrow, a 60% efficiency increase at Reckitt through a GenAI marketing platform, doubled productivity in Rio Tinto's AI-enabled scheduling, and improved service levels across 29 countries for PHOENIX group. Our clients in BCG's Top 100 consistently outperform the S&P 1200 by 12 percentage points in shareholder returns. We don't just advise—we build capabilities, transfer skills, and stay until the change sticks.

Our Commitments

BCG’s company commitments are at the core of our corporate purpose.


We know we can make the greatest impact through collaboration with our clients, as our diverse, global teams help organizations and governments tackle today’s most urgent challenges. But we are also on an ongoing mission to live up to our own company commitments, strengthening ethical and responsible business practices within BCG and working day by day to help build a sustainable and inclusive future and make a difference in society.

Addressing Urgent Global Challenges: A Time to Lead

Our annual Sustainability Report details the steps we took in 2021—through our client work and through the transformation of our own operations—to address important societal and environmental sustainability challenges and to help shape a brighter future for society, business, the planet, and its 8 billion people. The 2021 Sustainability Report delineates our approach, which focuses on four key pillars: driving social impact, protecting our planet, empowering our people, and promoting responsible business practices.

Protecting Our Planet

For governments and businesses today, no topic is more urgent than climate action. Combating the climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time and a top priority for BCG. By reducing emissions and addressing systemic threats to our climate and environment, we are not just protecting the planet but also increasing the long-term sustainability of corporations. In order to maximize our positive impact, we concentrate our environmental sustainability commitments in three domains: partnering with clients to drive climate and environmental impact, shaping the global agenda by broadening and deepening our engagement with leading climate actors, and managing our own environmental impact.


We have committed to reach net-zero climate impact by 2030, a significant step in our internal commitment to sustainability. Here are some of our key targets in this area:


  • Net Zero Climate Impact by 20230
  • 92% Reduction in direct energy et electric emissions per FTE by 2025 (vs 2018 baseline)
  • 48.5 reduction in business travel per FTE by 2025 (vs 2018 baseline)
  • $2billion pledged to advance climate actions with clients over the decade


Empowering Our People

Our success depends on our people. Our ability to attract and retain the best talent from all backgrounds—to fully reflect the diverse world in which we live and work—allows us to deliver value and help companies make a difference. In order to build a global BCG team made up of individuals determined to make the world and one another better every day, we invest heavily in talent acquisition; diversity, equity, and inclusion; employee well-being; learning programs and leadership development; and safety and security.

Promoting Responsible Business Practices

Dedication to ethical and responsible business practices defines our business identity and BCG’s approach as a firm. We consider this commitment—backed up by a system of clear accountability and a culture of transparency—critical to our success and to the reputational integrity of our clients and our company. Our responsible business goals include:


  • Training all BCG employees on our business ethics and employee code of conduct
  • Training all BCG employees on our data privacy and information security policies
  • Communicating our supplier code of conduct to all BCG suppliers
  • Training all BCG sourcing teams on sustainable procurement topics


BCG’S SPEAK UP LINE

As part of our effort to lead with integrity, and to prevent and identify misconduct, BCG offers a reporting option called Speak Up, which is run by an external service provider. As an alternative to sending concerns directly to one of our senior leaders, our Speak Up line provides employees, customers, suppliers and any other third parties an opportunity to report suspected violations of applicable law and BCG policies. BCG confidentially reviews concrete reports and forwards them to appropriate external parties if warranted. Users can remain anonymous when submitting a report, unless they choose otherwise.

Sustainability

Net Zero by Design—Across Our Operations and Our Client Work

BCG has a bold climate transition plan. We have set an SBTi-validated target to reach net zero greenhouse-gas emissions across the value chain by 2050, with near-term targets to rapidly reduce Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. We believe those that can move faster should—which is why we have also committed to neutralize 100% of our emissions through high-quality carbon removal credits by 2030 and to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than we emit beyond 2030. BCG is already among the top ten global buyers of certified carbon dioxide removals. Our 2025 Annual Sustainability Report, Unlocked Potential, Transformative Impact, details the depth of our societal impact and the progress we have made alongside our clients and partners. But our single greatest climate opportunity lies in the net zero consulting we deliver every day—supporting clients as they navigate the energy transition, decarbonize operations, build climate resilience, and develop nature-based solutions, helping them not just to survive the low-carbon economy but to thrive in it.

Community & Impact

The Positive Difference We Make in the World

BCG believes that business and capital have the power to be forces for good—and we hold ourselves to that belief. Our social impact consulting team helps clients transform their core business to create positive economic, environmental, and societal impact in ways that are also profitable for the long term. Across food systems and food security, humanitarian response, and international development, we partner with businesses, foundations, and governments to build solutions that endure. Our BCGers contribute more than 2.5 million hours annually to social impact work. Through our commitment to AI for Social Impact, we are directing $500 million by 2030—in partnership with organizations including Anthropic—to harness frontier AI capabilities for education, healthcare, and poverty reduction, with the potential to improve millions of lives. Our Global Human Rights Statement guides how we treat our people, serve our clients, manage our supply chain, and operate in communities worldwide. We measure our impact not only in revenue and returns, but in the difference we help create for the societies in which we operate.

Inclusion & Diversity

Unlocking Potential (BCG UP): Diversity, Inclusion, Mental Health, and Wellbeing

BCG UP—Unlocking Potential—is our firmwide commitment to helping every BCGer thrive. It unites our work across four connected pillars: diversity, inclusion, mental health, and wellbeing. Diversity of background, experience, and perspective strengthens our work, which is why we recruit from broad talent pools and invest in global and local affiliation networks—including Pride@BCG, Women@BCG, Black Community Groups, Hispanic and Latinx Community Groups, Asian Community Groups, Indigenous Community Groups, AccessAbility@BCG, Family and Caregiver Groups, and Veterans communities—that foster connection and belonging. Today, 49% of our firm's staff are women, 44% of new consulting team members are women, and BCG retains men and women at equal rates at all career stages. Inclusion means equipping leaders to foster dialogue where every voice informs a constructive conversation. On mental health, we ensure BCGers have access to the resources and open, empathetic conversations they need. And on wellbeing, we provide flexible working arrangements and practical tools to help each individual flourish professionally and personally. When people feel genuinely supported, they bring greater focus, creativity, and resilience—and that is exactly how we deliver stronger outcomes for our clients.

Awards & Accreditations

Recognition That Reflects Our Culture

BCG has been recognized as a Glassdoor Best Place to Work 2025, a Forbes Best Employer for Women 2024, a 2025 Disability Equality Index Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion, a Comparably Best Company for Diversity 2025, and a Comparably Best Company for Happiness 2024. These recognitions refl... See more

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