"...the most improbable business on earth."
Under Henderson's leadership, BCG would become a hotbed of radical thinking in the world of business and finance. As his client list grew, Henderson invaded the nation's best business schools, the Harvards and Stanfords of the world. He eclipsed McKinsey as the top recruiter at Harvard, aggressively wooing its best students with high salaries and the chance to make a difference in a cutting-edge firm. He encouraged the brilliant young minds he hired to come up with innovative ideas that would dazzle hardened corporate veterans. Sometimes he seemed dazzled himself by the success of the whole business. "Consulting is the most improbable business on earth," he would say.
- James O'Shea and Charles Madigan, Dangerous Company
BCG Insights & Highlights
- Each BCG consultant shares a phone line with another consultant
- To make an outside call, BCG staff have to call the operator and give a charge number before the call is placed
- Consultants = 62
World News
- Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong walks on the moon
- The Concorde, the first supersonic aircraft, takes its first test flight
- The Red Cross flies relief airlifts into Biafra
- British Conservative member of Parliament Enoch Powell proposes the government finance the repatriation of Black and Asian residents
- British troops are sent to Northern Ireland
- Yasser Arafat becomes the leader of the PLO
- The bar code scanner is invented
- A rock concert known as Woodstock in Bethel, New York attracts 300,000 people
