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Expanding hope for black rhinos and the communities that share their future. July 28, 2026 As the world marks World Conservation Day on 28 July, Kenya Rhino Range Expansion (KRRE) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) are highlighting the critical link between conservation, livelihoods, and sustainable economic growth. Together, the organisations are demonstrating how strategic collaboration between the conservation and private sectors can help unlock economic opportunity while protecting some of Africa's most important natural assets. Kenya's black rhino recovery is one of Africa's leading conservation success stories. Following a poaching crisis in the 1970s and 1980s that pushed the species to the brink of extinction, Kenya has successfully rebuilt its black rhino population to more than 1,150 animals. Today, the challenge has evolved from recovery to expansion, creating sufficient safe habitats for rhinos to thrive while ensuring conservation delivers tangible benefits for people and local economies. Discover more KBC News Subscription World News KRRE was established to address this challenge by securing and connecting new rhino habitats, aligning stakeholders across government, private sector, and community conservancies, and creating a sustainable model that supports both wildlife and economic development. The initiative has helped enable what is now the world's largest black rhino sanctuary and is focused on creating the space, partnerships and investment needed for long-term conservation success. Working alongside KRRE, BCG helped translate this vision into an actionable strategy, aligning stakeholders around a shared ambition and developing a roadmap designed to attract investment, strengthen partnerships and deliver measurable conservation and economic outcomes. "Conservation can only succeed over the long term if it creates meaningful value for people," said Jamie Gaymer, CEO of KRRE. "Our vision is to secure more habitat for black rhinos while creating jobs, supporting local economies and strengthening the natural systems that communities depend on. We are working towards a future where conservation is not seen as a cost, but as an investment in people, wildlife and economic prosperity." As an umbrella species, black rhinos play a critical role in protecting broader ecosystems. When habitats are secured for rhinos, countless other species benefit alongside the communities and industries that rely on healthy natural landscapes. Drawing on its expertise in strategy, stakeholder mobilisation and sustainable economic development, BCG supported KRRE in translating its vision into a practical and investable strategy, helping build alignment among partners and creating a roadmap that could attract support from government, communities, and private capital. Discover more Business Formation Entertainment News Blog Africans & Diaspora "World Conservation Day is an opportunity to recognise that protecting nature and driving economic development are not competing priorities," said Kenneth Kirumba, Project Leader at BCG, Nairobi. "Our work with KRRE demonstrates how strategic collaboration can unlock both conservation and economic outcomes. By creating a credible, fundable roadmap for expansion, KRRE is helping build a model where thriving ecosystems, sustainable livelihoods and long-term growth reinforce one another." The programme aims to create approximately 18,000 jobs over the next five years and contribute an estimated US$45 million to local economies, reinforcing the vital role conservation can play in supporting livelihoods and economic resilience. The initiative also highlights how nature-positive investments can generate tangible social and economic returns, creating benefits that extend well beyond conservation outcomes alone. As East Africa's population continues to grow, the future of its natural heritage will increasingly depend on conservation models that generate shared value for both people and nature. On World Conservation Day, KRRE's journey serves as a powerful reminder that lasting conservation is built on strong partnerships, a shared vision and long-term commitment. By aligning conservation objectives with local economic opportunities, the initiative is demonstrating how meaningful benefits for communities and wildlife can go hand in hand, laying the foundation for sustainable impact for generations to come.

BCG reaches highest tier of OpenAI's Partner Network. July 27, 2026 | new at BCG. BOSTON - Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has been named an OpenAI Elite Partner, the highest tier within the OpenAI Partner Network. The designation builds on BCG's work with OpenAI to help organizations move beyond experimentation to enterprise-scale AI transformation. The OpenAI Partner Network is a global program that brings together partners like BCG who have deep industry expertise and building and scaling capabilities. The program equips partners with the resources, enablement, and support to help enterprises adopt OpenAI frontier models and products and turn them into measurable impact. Organizations can then get more useful work from every token, and stronger performance per dollar, by leveraging the latest ChatGPT models to turn ambitious goals into finished work. BCG's partnership with OpenAI has a proven track record of helping organizations across a wide variety of industries - including health care, financial services, insurance, automotive, retail, and public sector - reshape how business operates. Examples of recent work include: * Large-scale transformation: leading an end-to-end AI transformation across priority areas including commercial and corporate banker reimagination at a global bank * Go-to-market reinvention: reimagining a PC and printing company's sales quoting and go-to-market processes from manual workflows into an autonomous AI-assisted sales workflow * Enterprise-wide AI transformation: accelerating AI deployment and adoption across a life sciences company's products, operations, and customer workflows "Reaching OpenAI Elite Partner status reflects what we've already seen with clients - pairing OpenAI's frontier AI with BCG's deep domain expertise, alongside BCG X's technology capabilities and engineering talent, transforms AI pilots into applied AI at scale that deliver measurable business impact," said Sylvain Duranton, a BCG managing director and senior partner and global leader of BCG X. "We're proud to be part of the OpenAI Partner Network and to extend that impact to more organizations globally." "BCG has shown how enterprise AI moves from promising pilots to work that changes how organizations operate," said Colleen Kapase, Vice President of Strategic Global Partnerships and Ecosystems at OpenAI. "We're excited to recognize BCG as an OpenAI Elite Partner and build on our work together helping organizations pair OpenAI's frontier models with BCG's transformation expertise, cross-industry perspective, and forward-deployed engineering talent to scale adoption and drive meaningful customer impact." As AI continues its rapid evolution, value creation at scale requires an ecosystem approach. BCG's diverse partner ecosystem connects clients to the technology, talent, and expertise needed to turn AI into measurable impact. About BCG X. BCG X is the tech build & design unit of BCG. Turbocharging BCG's deep industry and functional expertise, BCG X brings together advanced tech knowledge and ambitious entrepreneurship to help organizations enable innovation at scale. With nearly 3,000 technologists, scientists, programmers, engineers, and human-centered designers located across 80+ cities, BCG X builds and designs platforms and software to address the world's most important challenges and opportunities. Teaming across its practices, and in close collaboration with its clients, its end-to-end global team unlocks new possibilities. Together Boston Consulting Group is creating the bold and disruptive products, services, and businesses of tomorrow. About Boston Consulting Group. Boston Consulting Group bridges the gap between ambition and outcomes for the world's leading companies and organizations. Boston Consulting Group is built for this era of unprecedented change - bringing strategic clarity rooted in over 60 years of deep domain knowledge, combined with applied AI shaped by its practitioners. BCG works shoulder-to-shoulder with CEOs across industries and geographies to deliver transformative impact at scale: stronger returns, transferred capabilities, and change that sticks. For more information, visit bcg.com.

Building resilience before crisis: introducing the U.S. Chamber Foundation's strategic simulations. Strategic simulations bring together business, government, and civic leaders to help communities prepare for disruptions by strengthening coordination, building trusted relationships, and improving communication before a crisis hits. Dallas strategic simulation AAR. Senior Manager, Innovation Expert Project Leader, Uncertainty Advantage, Boston Consulting Group July 24, 2026 Disruptions today don't look like they used to. They are harder to recognize, anticipate, contain, and manage in real time, often spreading across systems before leaders fully understand what is happening. A community's ability to respond and protect its economic viability depends on whether public- and private-sector leaders can coordinate under uncertainty. When Main Street businesses are disrupted, the effects reach jobs, supply chains, public confidence, and the broader economic strength of the community. The premise is simple: economic security is national security, and resilient communities are essential to both. That's the challenge the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's Global Threats Initiative is focused on. In partnership with the Boston Consulting Group, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation has been investing in a new approach: strategic simulations. Strategic simulations are not tabletop exercises or technical drills. They are interactive, scenario-based experiences that bring business, government, and community leaders together to test how decisions get made when the situation is unclear, the pressure is high, and no single actor has the full picture. The goal is simple: build the relationships, habits, and coordination communities need before a real disruption hits. Piloting a Community Focused Simulation U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation began this work in Springfield, Illinois, working with the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce to pilot a community-based simulation. The purpose was not simply to test a crisis scenario, but to understand how a disruption would affect the businesses, services, and relationships that keep a local economy functioning. The scenario centered on a cyber-related disruption to the city's water system. As it evolved, participants had to navigate the technical problem as well as broader effects on public health, local businesses, and public confidence. One insight stood out: capacity exists, but coordination lags. Businesses, government agencies, and community leaders all had a role to play, but without clear pathways for communication and decision-making, that capacity was hard to activate. Testing It Under Pressure U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation recently built upon that work in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, in partnership with the Dallas Regional Chamber. This simulation took place in the context of the FIFA World Cup and introduced a disruption to GPS and timing systems. The complication was that systems did not fail outright. They continued to operate, but with unreliable data, creating confusion across transportation, logistics, and communications. The challenge wasn't responding to a single incident. But rather, deciding how to move forward when the signal itself was unclear. A few early takeaways: * Ambiguity is the real stress test: There is often no clear moment when a problem becomes a crisis. * Continuity matters more than certainty: Leaders must keep systems moving even without full information. * Coordination breaks down fastest when it's needed most: Alignment doesn't happen automatically, it must be built in advance. (Full findings are captured in the Dallas After Action Review) What U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation is Learning Across these simulations, a consistent pattern is emerging. Resilience depends as much on relationships and decision-making structures as it does on physical systems. When coordination is strong, communities are better positioned to respond. When it is not, even well-resourced systems can struggle. A few themes stand out: * Coordination is a capability: It needs to be practiced, not assumed. * Early communication matters: It helps leaders separate signals from noise before delays and fragmentation compound. * Business plays a critical role: But that role is most effective when it is clearly defined and integrated ahead of time. * Uncertainty is the norm: The ability to operate without perfect information is increasingly essential. Why This Matters Strategic simulations create a rare space for leaders to test coordination before a real crisis. They surface gaps, challenge assumptions, and build relationships that carry forward beyond the exercise itself. Its approach is both top-down and bottom-up: working with national business leaders to stress-test complex risks while also equipping local chambers and communities to strengthen resilience from the ground up. For communities, resilience is not only about emergency response. It is about protecting economic activity, maintaining public trust, and ensuring that businesses can continue serving the people and places that depend on them. What's Next The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation is continuing to expand this work by developing tools and frameworks that chambers and communities can use to run strategic simulations across the country. By working through chambers and local business networks, the Foundation can help communities build resilience in a way that is practical, locally grounded, and connected to the businesses that anchor economic life. For organizations and leaders interested in engaging, partnering, or learning more, please reach out to Pamela Wilson, vice president of strategy and innovation, at [email protected]. Melissa mendizabal. Melissa is the senior manager of innovation on the Foundation's Incubator team. She spearheads a portfolio of projects focused on democracy and capitalism, geopolitical threats, and other wicked problems. Nick D'Intino. Nick D'Intino serves as the Expert Project Leader, Uncertainty Advantage for Boston Consulting Group.