Richard Foster is a Senior Partner and Director at McKinsey & Company, a leading global management consulting firm. He joined the firm in 1973, was elected Partner in 1977 and Senior Partner in 1982. In his primary client service role within McKinsey & Company, he has worked in more than 50 industry segements, but primarily in the medical products, pharmaceuticals, imaging, electronics chemicals, consumer products, retail, and asset-management industries. He has focused special attention over the past 25 years on improving the growth and innovative performance of large organizations.
Mr. Foster has written articles on innovation and business performance for Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, and The Harvard Business Review. His 1986 book, Innovation: The Attacker's Advantage, was voted one of the five best business books of the year in a Wall Street Journal CEO poll.
A Trustee of the Santa Fee Institute, he is also a board member of Keck Foundation and serves on the Advisory Board of the Whitehead Institute. He received his BSc, MSc, and PhD from Yale University in Engineering, and Applied Science. He lives in New York City with his wife and has three sons.
Creative Destruction: From Built-To-Last to Built-To-Perform