The Boston Consulting Group report, which was commissioned by a coalition of anti-SRO groups, pegged the annual cost of enhanced examinations by the Securities and Exchange Commission at $240 million to $270 million annually, and the average annual fee ...

http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20111218/REG/312189962

BCG was hired by several adviser industry groups, including the Investment Adviser Association, which represents SEC- registered investment advisers, to do the report and an online survey of 424 investment advisers. The study evaluated the costs of ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-15/sec-cheaper-than-finra-for-regulating-investment-advisers-bcg-study-says.html

By Zack McMillin When school-merger leaders met last month at Bridges with the international firm Boston Consulting Group, they discovered a group eager to take on the challenge of helping Shelby County merge its two large public school systems. ...

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/dec/15/consultants-set-to-make-a-difference/

New partners include Daniel P. Petrozzo, chief information officer at Fidelity Investments before joining Goldman Sachs in June, and Boston Consulting Group Chairman Carl Stern, 65, who became a Chicago-based vice chairman in the investment-banking ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-14/goldman-loses-at-least-37-partners-in-weakest-year-since-2008.html

To arrange an interview with one of the authors, please contact Eric Gregoire at +1 617 850 3783 or gregoire.eric@bcg.com. The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global management consulting firm and the world's leading advisor on business strategy. ...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/aging-population-will-hinder-growth-and-productivity-in-all-major-industries-unless-companies-take-action-says-report-by-the-boston-consulting-group-2011-12-13

The Massachusetts-based Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has expressed concern that growing organisational complexity may lead to a global decline in business productivity. In an exclusive interview with the Bangkok Post, Yves Morieux, a senior partner of ...

http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/economics/270347/growing-complexity-a-hindrance

He chose the Boston Consulting Group, which was only 12 years old at the time. Two years later, an upstart rival, Bain & Company, recruited him away. In the 30-plus years since, Mr. Romney and his chosen profession have enjoyed a striking, ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/sunday-review/consultant-nation.html

There remain significant barriers to an uptick in European M&A activity, according to a new report of senior executives by UBS and the Boston Consulting Group. The top barrier to M&A cited by respondents is the lack of targets which are problem-free ...

http://www.businessinsider.com/european-ma-barriers-2011-12

By Bill Dries Boston Consulting Group has been hired as the consultant to the schools consolidation planning commission and could begin its work as early as Friday, Dec. 9. The commission approved the contract through the non-profit Shelby County ...

http://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2011/dec/9/schools-planning-commission-hires-consultant-sets-budget/

... including those of Accenture, Aon Hewitt, Boston Consulting Group, Buck Consultants, DDI (Development Dimensions International), Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Hay Group, IBM, Korn Ferry, Lee Hecht Harrison, Mercer, Meridian Compensation Partners, ...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/human-capital-management-consulting-spurred-by-organizational-change-2011-12-07

Meanwhile, a report released by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) finds that China's online retailing sector is presently worth $74 billion a year, and could increase to $314 billion by 2015. The e-commerce market will account for 7.4 percent of the ...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/renren-and-sina-corporation-strong-growth-but-stocks-struggle-2011-12-06

According to the global management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group (“BCG”), China ranks second in terms of online shoppers, with 145 million buyers (versus 175 million in the United States). But given the Internet-savvy population in China, BCG ...

http://www.stockmarketsreview.com/news/213231/

That transitioned me smoothly to a consulting position at Boston Consulting Group where I focused on economic strategies for retail and banking. I had been dealing with Internet and e-commerce issues for a long time and in 1999 I really saw the market ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/new-at-the-top-thomas-g-kramer/2011/11/30/gIQAETObTO_story.html

After graduating Brigham Young University, then Harvard, Romney plunged into his work at Boston Consulting Group and Bain Capital. The views he expressed in his 1994 Senate campaign — pro-choice on abortion, skittish about the Reagan administration ...

http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/2011_1203mitt_seems_lost_in_50s_consequence_is_corny

"For some banks, the pressure is growing to find new sources of revenue beyond the lending business," said Ruediger Filbry, Senior Partner at the Boston Consulting Group. Banks are increasingly trying their hands as consultants for bond placements or ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/01/germany-banks-idUSL5E7N13B120111201

The panel that is to come up with the plan for a merger of the Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools systems will work through the Shelby County Schools Foundation and with private funding in the proposal to hire Boston Consulting Group. ...

http://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2011/dec/1/bcg-contract-approval-expected/

The Forrester findings conflict with a report released last month (PDF) by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which found 42 percent of existing tablet users wanted a Windows-based tablet while 53 percent of non-tablet users wanted one with Windows. ...

http://rcpmag.com/articles/2011/11/29/windows-tablets-losing-consumer-interest-forrester-finds.aspx

Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management says it sent 30 MBA grads to Boston Consulting Group, up from 23 last year. Postings for consulting jobs at DePaul University have climbed past 600—more than three times the 2009 number and well ...

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20111126/ISSUE01/311269978

However, the country's e-commerce market is currently worth just half of the US's, but for how long? by Helen Leggatt A new report (.pdf) from the Boston Consulting Group reveals that within the next five years online shoppers in China will spend twice ...

http://www.bizreport.com/2011/11/china-soon-to-be-next-e-commerce-superpower.html

E-commerce sales in China almost quadrupled from 2008 to 2010 as 23 percent of its urban population shopped online last year according to the marketing survey leader, Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The firm predicts that China's Internet retailing ...

http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20111126/BUSINESS08/711269948/0

25 November 2011 - The Boston Consulting Group's Undergraduate Scholarship has gone to New Zealand for the first time, with two Auckland students receiving the prestigious award in 2011. The BCG Undergraduate Scholarship was introduced in 2004 to ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1111/S00680/bcg-undergraduate-scholarship-awarded-to-kiwi-students.htm

In a new report, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) calculates that every year for the foreseeable future another 30m Chinese will go online to shop for the first time. By 2015 they will each be spending $1000 a year—about what Americans spend online ...

http://www.economist.com/node/21540260

The Boston Consulting Group, the consultancy, and Leo Burnett, the agency, compared online insights with those supplied by in-person qualitative interviews and quantitative market research. "Although web mining is a valuable and fast-improving tool, ...

http://www.warc.com/LatestNews/News/Web_research_needs_nuanced_approach.news?ID=29107

Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg China's Internet retailing market may overtake the US as the world's largest with transactions valued at more than 2 trillion yuan ($314 billion) in 2015, according to Boston Consulting Group Inc. E-commerce sales ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-22/china-online-retail-may-surpass-u-s-in-four-years-boston-consulting-says.html

22 (Bloomberg) -- China's Internet retailing market may overtake the US as the world's largest with transactions valued at more than 2 trillion yuan ($314 billion) in 2015, according to Boston Consulting Group Inc. E-commerce sales in China almost ...

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-21/china-e-commerce-may-pass-u-s-in-2015-boston-consulting-says.html