Thomas J. Tierney

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Thomas J. Tierney
Tierney in 2003
Born (1954-03-05) March 5, 1954 (age 70)
San Francisco, California, US
EducationUniversity of California, Davis
Harvard Business School
OccupationBusiness executive
TitleChairman, eBay
Term2015-

Thomas J. Tierney (born 5 March 1954) is an American business executive and corporate writer, who is the co-founder of the nonprofit

Bridgespan Group that provides management consulting to nonprofits and philanthropists. He has been chairman of eBay since July 2015.[citation needed
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Tierney is cited by the book Management Consultancy in the 21st Century as a specialist in customer service and marketing.[1]

Early life

Tierney was born in San Francisco, California in 1954.[2] Tierney earned a BA in Economics from the University of California, Davis in 1976, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1980.[2]

Career

He joined Bain & Company in 1980,[1] and served as the managing director of its San Francisco office from 1987 to 1992. In June 1992 he was appointed chief executive officer of Bain & Company, a post which he held until January 2000, during which time the company grew significantly, venturing into business internationally and generating revenues six times what they had been.[3]

In 1998, Tierney co-founded The Bridgespan Group, described by Bloomberg as an "independent, nonprofit affiliate of Bain & Company designed to provide general management consulting services to foundations and nonprofit organizations". He launched the organization in 1999, and was appointed its chairman. In March 2003, Tierney was appointed an Independent Director at eBay, and he has been its Lead Independent Director since April 2012.[3]

Aside from his Bridgespan and eBay position, Tierney has been the Director of

The Harvard Business Review and books, including Forbes's Learning From The Chief Executive Officer and Aligning the Stars (2002), the latter co-authored with Jay W. Lorsch, which documents business strategy and organization.[3][5][6] In 2011, he co-authored Give Smart: Philanthropy That Gets Results with Joel L. Fleishman.[7]
Tierney said of Give Smart: Philanthropy That Gets Results: "The basic premise behind the book is that there must be ideas relevant to philanthropy that have been proven over time, ideas that were as useful to Andrew Carnegie as they are to Bill Gates. One of the reasons [co-author] Joel [Fleishman] and I teamed up was that he has done extensive research on twentieth-century philanthropy, a lot of which he used in The Foundation".[8]

References

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    ISBN 978-1-55753-178-0
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  2. ^ a b "Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980". HBS. 26 May 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "Thomas J. Tierney". Bloomberg. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Thomas Tierney (MBA 1980) Named Chair of HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Advisory Board". Harvard Business School. 5 January 2009. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  5. ISBN 978-1-4221-6318-4
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  6. ISBN 978-1-4221-3106-0
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  7. ISBN 978-1-58648-989-2
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  8. ^ "Tom Tierney, Chairman/Co-Founder, Bridgespan Group: Philanthropy That Gets Results". Philanthropy News Digest. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2015.


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