In the early 1960s, the business world ran on gut feeling, seniority, and economies of scale. Strategy, such as it was, meant producing more for less and letting the sales team figure out the rest. Then came Bruce Henderson—a Vanderbilt-trained engineer with a restless, contrarian mind—who founded The Boston Consulting Group in 1963 and effectively invented corporate strategy as a serious discipline.
In the annals of modern business history, few figures cast a shadow as long as Bruce Henderson. As the founder of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Henderson did not merely establish a successful company; he invented the modern management consulting industry. Before Henderson, business advice was largely synonymous with accounting and efficiency auditing. After him, it became a rigorous, intellectual discipline grounded in economics and strategy. Henderson’s journey from a unconventional salesman to the patriarch of corporate strategy is a testament to the power of ideas and the courage to challenge established orthodoxy. founder of bcg
Bruce Doolin Henderson (1915–1992) founded the in 1963, a moment that fundamentally shifted management consulting from operational efficiency to corporate strategy. Henderson’s career began as a Bible salesman, and after studying engineering at Vanderbilt University, he rose through the ranks at Westinghouse to become one of its youngest vice presidents before entering the consulting field at Arthur D. Little. In the early 1960s, the business world ran
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