Managing Director & Senior Partner; Social Impact Practice Leader
Atlanta
Richard Hutchinson leads Boston Consulting Group’s Social Impact (SI) practice globally. He is also the leader of the firm's functional practices.
Since joining BCG in 1993, Rich has largely focused on enhancing marketing, pricing, and commercial capabilities for clients across a range of industries, including health care, industrial goods, consumer goods, travel and tourism, and transportation.
He also has a long history of deep engagement in BCG’s SI work, including leading BCG’s global partnership with Yunus Social Business. Rich has played a key role driving BCG’s thought leadership across a wide range of SI topics as well, from addressing climate change to eliminating Hepatitis C.
Throughout his client work, Rich drives bottom-line impact through the creation of new go-to-market strategies, superior execution tactics, and the development of organizational commercial capabilities.
Passionate about building both BCG and great BCG teams, Rich has held a number of previous leadership positions including global leader of the firm’s Marketing, Sales, and Pricing practice, founder and leader of BCG's Pricing Enablement Center, BCG's global Chief of Staff, and member of both BCG's Operating and Executive Committees.
Artificial intelligence has the potential to reduce companies’ greenhouse gas emissions and cut costs by monitoring their carbon footprint and then reducing it through increased efficiency.
In a world in turmoil, the private sector can make a positive impact in the fight against climate change and inequality, securing companies’ long-term advantage in the process.
Protecting the vulnerable would provide societies with a path to contain the virus, reopen most businesses, and return to schools without reverting to lockdowns.
There is a proven strategy for winning the fight. To deploy it effectively, governments must address four critical imperatives.
Keeping the vulnerable out of the hospital radically reduces the health care burden and dramatically raises economic options.
Reducing exposure among those who are vulnerable to adverse health outcomes will benefit the healthy, the economically vulnerable, and society overall.
Three strategies for fighting the coronavirus and restarting economies have emerged. The most popular one is the most unstable.
These technology initiatives can help companies generate fast, sustainable gains without the need for a full-scale transformation.
2020年代には、学習のスピードにおける競争力がますます求められるようになるでしょう。AIをはじめとするテクノロジーが大きな役割を果たすのは確かですが、それらを導入するだけでは不十分です。企業全体を「次世代の学習する組織」へと変革することが必要になります。