Bill Bain (Consultant)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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