BCG has outgrown it's competitors (incl my firm Bain) by a long way over the last few years. Have they been able to maintain the values, quality and culture that distinguish the firm despite the breakneck pace of growth?

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I think we build on our values and got better, specially with the recent purpose conversation.
I’m beginning to feel proud of the people I work with.

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BCG is growing fast and expanding into new businesses, and generally my view is that we have done very well at preserving our values and identity. But, with the territory of new business models comes challenges. I’ve been here 5 years and I worked on some of the early projects with eg DigitalBCG. (I still do.) My experience has been that over the past 5 years we have:

1. Grown our core business tremendously - with no loss of culture / values
2. Grown our specialty businesses (such as DigitalBCG) exponentially, with some challenges along the way. But digital projects now >>> digital projects 5 years ago.
3. Not all experiments into new business models have been successful (or immediately successful). This is to be expected when ANY business tries new things.

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Unfortunately no. We haven’t been able to maintain our firm’s values and culture. At all.

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Incredibly MDP- and PL- specific

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Varies a lot by pyramid and region. But ultra fast growth usually results in some value and culture erosion and BCG (in my region) is no exception. In my office, we brought a lot of seniors from competitors and they brought their own pyramids, which in some cases forced some good homegrown guys out. And many never really integrated so we ended up with several islands of sub cultures, which are mostly bad (think favoritism, nepotism, etc). Can’t speak for other parts of BCG tho

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I have been curious how Bain is doing. I feel like there are less of you guys on this app and we don’t really come across Bain when we pitch (granted we do a lot of operational work and project mix between the two firms is probably different).

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Agreed.

Been at Bain 1.5 years now and have only done strategy cases. The culture is kick-ass too, I love it here.

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