Adjunct Professor of General Management

Bill Barnett is former director of the Dallas office of McKinsey & Company, Inc., where he worked for almost a decade. Before this, Bill was in McKinsey's offices in Washington and in Atlanta. During his career with McKinsey, Bill advised clients in many industries including retail, consumer products, industrial, energy, chemicals, health care, financial services, media, telecommunications, software, and electronics companies. He helped these clients resolve tough strategy questions (e.g., whether to make billion dollar investments, to launch new products), decide complex organizational issues (e.g., how to structure a newly merged company, how to build skills in a critical area to implement a new strategy), and improve operations (e.g., reducing purchasing spending, redesigning processes to upgrade customer satisfaction).

MBA Harvard University