Bain & Company

William Worthington "Bill" Bain, Jr. is a management consultant, known for his role as one of the founders of the management consultancy that bears his name, Bain & Company. Prior to founding Bain & Company, Bill Bain was a Vice-President at the Boston Consulting Group . William Bain was... born in 1937 in Johnson City, Tennessee, to a food wholesaler. He attended East Tennessee State College for two years before transferring to Vanderbilt University. He graduated in 1959, earning Phi Beta Kappa honors, with a degree in history. He then got married and became a father. He did graduate work in history at Vanderbilt as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar in 1960. He briefly worked at a steel fabricating company before returning to Vanderbilt in 1960 to work as the school's director of development. In this capacity, he met Bruce Henderson, the founder of the Boston Consulting Group. After meeting Henderson, Bain chose to join BCG. In the early 1970s, Bain was considered internally at Boston Consulting Group to be Henderson's eventual successor. However, in 1973 Bain resigned from BCG to start his own strategy consulting firm.
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ORIT GADIESH is the Chairman of Bain & Company,  the global strategy consulting firm. Ms. Gadiesh has worked with hundreds of CEOs and... senior executives of major international companies. Her first job was working as the assistant of the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army. She then went on to earn her degree in Psychology from the Hebrew University and her MBA from Harvard Business School graduating with top honors. After  teaching at the Hebrew University she joined Bain & company as an entry level cosultant in 1977. She was later named Chairman in 1993.
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