25 Facts About Bruce Henderson

Bruce Doolin Henderson was an American businessman and management expert.

Bruce Henderson founded Boston Consulting Group in 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts and headed the firm as the president and CEO until 1980.

Bruce Henderson had seven grandchildren at the time of his death.

Bruce Henderson began his career as a salesman in the Southwestern Advantage entrepreneurial program.

Bruce Henderson went on to attend and earn an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Vanderbilt University in 1937, before attending Harvard Business School.

Bruce Henderson left Harvard only ninety days before graduation to work for the Westinghouse Corporation.

Bruce Henderson became the vice president at the age of 37, making him one of the youngest vice presidents in the company's history.

In 1959, Henderson left the company to join the consulting firm Arthur D Little as a senior vice president for management services.

Bruce Henderson left the firm in 1963 over disagreements with the firm's leadership.

Nevertheless, Henderson hired his second consultant, Arthur P Contas, in December 1963.

Bruce Henderson provided a very specific imprint to the firm, that of strategy consultants.

In 1974 Bruce Henderson made BCG an independent business and was one of the first to take advantage of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 that allowed the establishment of an employee stock ownership plan.

Between 1974 and 1980, Bruce Henderson focused on growing the firm and expanding its international presence.

Bruce Henderson stepped down from his role as the president and CEO of Boston Consulting Group in 1980.

Bruce Henderson retired and went to Nashville, Tennessee, to teach at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.

Bruce Henderson died at the age of 77, ten days after suffering a stroke at his home in Nashville in 1992.

Bruce Henderson was survived by his second wife, four children with his first wife, and seven grandchildren.

Bruce Henderson said the article could equally be titled "How to Succeed in Business by Being Unreasonable".

Bruce Henderson wrote that to compete effectively, it was necessary to appear to be co-operating while in fact ensuring to get one's own way.

Bruce Henderson compared business to international relations during peacetime, when countries compete ferociously but exercise restraint to avoid war.

Bruce Henderson began to imagine a new and far more powerful kind of economics.

Bruce Henderson was named one of Time magazine's top 10 newsmakers under 30 years old.

In 1978 Bruce Henderson was inducted by Vanderbilt's School of Engineering as a Distinguished Alumnus.

Bruce Henderson received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1985 by the University School of Nashville, from which he had graduated in 1932.

In January 2018, the BCG Bruce Henderson Institute was ranked the third Best For Profit Global Think Tank by the University of Pennsylvania.