Adjunct Professor of General Management

Bill is a retired Director of McKinsey & Company, Inc., where he worked for 23 years in offices located in Washington, Atlanta, and Dallas.

During his career with McKinsey, Bill advised clients in a wide range of industries including retail, consumer products, industrial, energy, health care, media, telecommunications, software, and electronics. Bill led the firm’s strategy practice – the group that addresses how to improve strategy development capability. He has authored six articles on different business strategy topics in publications such as the Wall Street Journal and the Harvard Business Review. Bill also led the firm’s economic development practice, with a focus on helping metro areas stimulate their economies.

Since retiring from McKinsey, Bill has become an adjunct professor at the Yale School of Management where he teaches classes in business strategy for one academic quarter a year.

Bill is a member of the board of directors of Eagle Materials. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the International Rescue Committee (the largest U.S. refugee assistance organization). Bill is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Before all of this, Bill was with the U.S. Department of State from 1977 to 1981, where he started a new policy analysis office in politico-military affairs. From 1973 to 1976, he worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and was a member of the U.S. delegation to the force reduction negotiations between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. He was a captain in the U.S. Army in Vietnam in 1972.

Bill received a BS in Engineering from West Point in 1969 and an MBA from Harvard in 1971. At both schools, he was in the top 5 percent of his class. He grew up in Midland, Texas.

Bill splits his time between Dallas, Seabrook Island, South Carolina, and New Haven, Connecticut. He lives with his wife Alice and has three children – Sandy, Lauren, and Kate (ages 24, 22, and 18).

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