Notable employees of Boston Consulting Group

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This is a partial list of former and current employees of the The Boston Consulting Group, the global management consulting firm.

Academia

  • James Abegglen – former management and economics professor, the author and co-author of ten books on Japan, including the bestseller The Japanese Factory (1958), which introduced Japanese employment practices to America. Founder of BCG's Tokyo office.
  • Linda Bilmes – Professor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
  • Sally Blount – Dean, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management.
  • Clayton Christensen – Professor, Harvard Business School. Best known for his study of innovation in commercial enterprises, particularly his theory of disruptive technology and co-founder of Innosight, a management consulting firm.
  • Michael Chu – Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School, Former partner Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, founding senior partner of Pegasus Capital Advisors, and co-founder and Managing Director of IGNIA.
  • Jeremy Davis – Former Dean and Professor, the Australian Graduate School of Management. Founder of BCG's Paris and Menlo Park offices.
  • Jeffrey Hunker – Distinguished Service Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University. Former Dean of Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College, and Founding Director of the US Department of Commerce's Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office
  • Alexander N. Rossolimo – Founding chairman of Center for Security and Social Progress, Inc.

Business

  • Jean-Christophe Babin – CEO of TAG Heuer
  • Bill Bain – Founder of Bain & Co.
  • George Barkley - Former CEO and investment banker
  • Peter Balnaves – CTO of CVS Caremark
  • Roland Berger – Founder of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Advisory Board of The Blackstone Group
  • Ariane de Bonvoisin – Author of The First 30 Days: Your Guide to Any Change (And Loving Your Life More)
  • Bill Browder – Co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management
  • Bruce Buchanan – CEO of Jetstar Airways
  • Jeff Bussgang - Serial Entrepreneur, Partner at Flybridge Capital, Lecturer at Harvard Business School
  • Michael A. Carpenter – Chairman of Southgate Alternative Investments, former CEO of Salomon Smith Barney
  • Ian Cheshire, Chief Executive, Kingfisher
  • Gerald Corbett – CEO of Railtrack
  • George David – Former Chairman and CEO of United Technologies
  • Michael Dornemann – Chairman & CEO of Bertelsmann Entertainment
  • Colin Drummond - CEO of Viridor and joint CEO of Pennon Group
  • Michael R. Eisenson – co-founder of Charlesbank Capital Partners, former managing director of the Harvard Management Company
  • Ahmed Fahour – CEO of Australia Post
  • Neil Fiske – CEO of Eddie Bauer, co-author of Treasure Hunt: Inside the Mind of the New Consumer
  • Shikhar Ghosh – Serial Entrepreneur, MBA Class of 1961 Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School
  • Anthony Habgood - Chairman of Reed Elsevier and Whitbread
  • Steve Hafner – Co-founder and CEO of Kayak.com, co-founder and former CEO of Orbitz
  • Martin Halusa – CEO of Apax Partners
  • John Ho – Former Asia chief of The Children's Investment Fund
  • Andy Hornby – CEO of Alliance Boots, former CEO of HBOS plc
  • Philip Hulme – Founder of Computacenter
  • Jeff Immelt – CEO of General Electric
  • Andreas Jacobs – Chairman of Barry Callebaut
  • Bob Kagle - Director at eBay
  • Jim Koch – Founder, CEO, & Brewmaster of Boston Beer Company
  • Jan Koeppen – COO of News Corporation Europe and Asia
  • Austin Ligon – Co-Founder, Retired CEO CarMax
  • Pahala N. Mansury – EVP Coordinator Finance & Strategy and CFO, Bank Mandiri
  • Dean Nelson – Chairman of Primedia
  • Indra Nooyi – CEO of Pepsi
  • John Paulson – Founder of Paulson & Co, a New York-based hedge fund
  • Stefan Quandt – Owner of Delton AG
  • Gary M. Reiner – SVP and CIO of General Electric
  • John Replogle – President and CEO of Burt's Bees
  • Mauricio González Sfeir – Former President of YPFB, Former Secretary of Energy of Bolivia, owner of La Paz F.C.
  • Michael J. Silverstein – Author of several bestselling business books, including Trading Up: The New American Luxury and Treasure Hunt: Inside the Mind of the New Consumer
  • Harold L. Sirkin – Author of several business books, including Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation and GLOBALITY: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything
  • Mehmet Subasi – Founder & CEO of Vodaco
  • Alan Tripp – Founder of SCORE! Educational Centers and InsideTrack
  • Harry Weller - prominent venture capitalist
  • Jim Whitehurst – CEO of Red Hat, former COO of Delta Air Lines
  • Yibo Shao – Founder of IDG Capital Partners, founder of eBay Eachnet Co Ltd

Entertainment

  • Karan Bajaj – Author of the 2008 Indian best seller Keep Off the Grass
  • John Legend – Grammy award winning musician
  • Alex Michel – Star of The Bachelor, Season One
  • Carl Woebcken – German film producer

Politics and public service

  • Benjamin Netanyahu – Prime Minister of Israel (1996–1999, 2009–Present)
  • Mitt Romney – Governor of Massachusetts (2003–2007), CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, co-founder of Bain Capital, former CEO of Bain & Company
  • Margaret Spellings – Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush
  • Jeffrey Hunker – National Security Council member under President Bill Clinton and professor at Carnegie Mellon University
  • Hans Wijers – Minister of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands (1994–1998), CEO of Akzo Nobel
  • Ira Magaziner – Aide and policy advisor to President Clinton, CEO of SJS Advisors and co-founder of Brown University's open curriculum
  • Peter Lampl – Founder and Chairman of Sutton Trust
  • Alexander De Croo – Chairman of the Flemish Liberals and Democrats
  • Steve Poizner – California Insurance Commissioner (2007–2011) and California businessman
  • Laura Liswood – Co-founder and Secretary-General of the Council of Women World Leaders
  • Mahlon Apgar, IV – international authority on housing, infrastructure, and real estate
  • Natasha Tsukanova – Advisor to the Russian government on Energy M&A
  • Ken Hachikian – Chairman of the Armenian National Committee of America and Cambridge Heart, Inc.
  • David Young – COO of World Vision International
  • Terry Moran - Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet of Australia

Sports

  • Scott Jackson (American football) – Former NFL Football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Houston Texans
  • Rohan Sajdeh – played cricket for Cambridge University

Others

  • Liu Yiting – Subject of the book Harvard Girl, a best-seller in China