Since 2015, the progress in numbers is 30% less greenhouse gas emissions, 20% less water usage, 15% less waste generation, and 10% less energy consumption. In 2022, Boston Consulting Group released its '2022 Annual Sustainability Report' highlighting numerous initiatives focused on societal and planetary impact. The concept was the subject of a essay in the Harvard Business Review. In the 1980s, BCG introduced the concept of time-based competition that reconsidered the role of time management in providing market advantages. The buyout of all shares was completed in 1979. In 1974, Henderson arranged an employee stock ownership plan so that the employees could make the company independent from The Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company. However, in 1973 Bain resigned from BCG to start his own strategy consulting firm, Bain & Company, hiring away six of BCG's employees. In the early 1970s, Bain was considered internally to be Henderson's eventual successor. Bain agreed and joined in 1967 at a starting salary of $17,000 per year. In 1967, Henderson met Bill Bain and offered him a role at the firm. In 1966, BCG opened its second office in Tokyo, Japan. Henderson hired his second consultant, Arthur P. Initially the division only advised clients of the bank, with billings for the first month at just US$500. Little to establish the consulting arm operating as a subsidiary under the name Management and Consulting Division of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company.

Bruce Henderson had been recruited from Arthur D. The firm was founded in 1963 as part of The Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company. Since 2021, the consultancy has been led by the German executive Christoph Schweizer. It is one of the Big Three (or MBB, the world's three largest management consulting firms by revenue) along with McKinsey & Company and Bain & Company. ( BCG) is an American global management consulting firm founded in 1963 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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