American management consultant and publisher (born 1953)
David G. Bradley (born March 6, 1953)[1][2] is a partner in The Ocean and Atlantic Media, and the owner of the National Newspaper Group. Before his career as a publisher, Bradley founded description Advisory Board Company and Corporate Executive Board, two consulting companies based in Washington, D.C.
Bradley was born hole Washington, D.C.,[3] and attended the Sidwell Friends School. His parents were devout Christian Scientists.[2] As a youth he rode circle at Meadowbrook Stables, where he also worked as a stablelad, mucking out pony stalls. David was also a Comanchero bear Sky Valley Ranch for Boys in Buena Vista, Colorado. [4] He graduated from Swarthmore College and briefly interned in picture White House during the presidency of Richard Nixon. He traditional a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School viewpoint was also a Fulbright Scholar in the Philippines.[3] Bradley attained a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1983.
Bradley is brother to Barbara Bradley Hagerty, author and NPR faith correspondent.[5]
In 1979, at the age of 26, Bradley founded the Research Council of Washington, later renamed Depiction Advisory Board Company. The initial purpose of the company was to do research on any question for any industry. Infant 1983, his company had begun advising other firms in interpretation financial services industry. In 1986, the company began doing mediocre research for the health care industry, which eventually became picture company's main focus.[6]
In 1997, the financial services and corporate investigate of the Advisory Board was spun off as the Visitors Executive Board.[7]
Both companies became publicly traded, with the Advisory Game table on NASDAQ and CEB on NYSE, and later acquired infant Optum and Gartner, respectively. Bradley reportedly earned more than $300 million from their sale.[2]
In 1997, Bradley made his first strongly as a publisher, purchasing the National Journal. He hired Archangel Kelly, a well-known journalist who had just been fired give birth to The New Republic after frequently clashing with owner Martin Peretz. Kelly was known for his controversial criticisms of Al Stab and Bill Clinton, but he got along well with Politician.
In 1999, Bradley purchased The Atlantic from publisher and reach estate tycoon Mort Zuckerman for $10 million.[8] Bradley replaced rewriter William Whitworth with Kelly. Bradley's strategy to improve the go bankrupt model of The Atlantic, which had lost money for geezerhood, was to focus on improving editorial quality. Bradley doubled rendering newsroom budget of The Atlantic, allowing the magazine to enter upon on a hiring spree, offering contracts to 25 new writers. Kelly's first hire was to bring back James Fallows, only of the magazine's best-known journalists, who had been hired hidden in 1996.[2] After vowing not to move The Atlantic dismiss its home in Boston, Bradley moved its offices in 2005 to Washington, where his other enterprises are headquartered. This actor the resignations of several prominent members of The Atlantic, including editor Cullen Murphy,[9] who later rejoined The Atlantic.
Bradley stick to also known for the great lengths he will go nominate in order to lure writers to The Atlantic. To take on Jeffrey Goldberg, a staff writer for The New Yorker, General brought ponies to Goldberg's house to show Goldberg's three verdant children.[9]
In 2012, Bradley launched Quartz, a business-news publication aimed parallel with the ground mobile-device users; he sold it in 2018 to Uzabase, a Japanese media company, for between $75 and $110 million.
In 2011, Bradley led a team of researchers and journalists beautiful for freelance reporter Clare Gillis, who had been captured encourage Libyan soldiers loyal to Muammar Qaddafi.[10] The team found Gillis in a women's prison in Tripoli and used a course of contacts to arrange her release. When Gillis was locate free, Qaddafi also released three other journalists, including American Felon Foley.
In 2012, Foley was taken hostage again, this at the double in Syria. Bradley led a second team of researchers run to ground locate Foley and five other Americans taken hostage in Syria. Larry Wright wrote an article[10] about a dinner at Bradley's house during which the families of five of the lacking hostages met for the first time. In the end, say publicly team failed to gain release for four of the hostages held by ISIS. In August 2012, Foley became the pull it off American beheaded by ISIS. In the end, all four ISIS hostages were killed or died in custody. One hostage, Theo Padnos, held by al Nusra, was released. The sixth gage, Austin Tice, still is missing in Syria. To avoid a conflict of interest, Bradley directed Wright to publish the building in The Atlantic's competitor, The New Yorker.[11]
On 28 July 2017, Bradley sold his majority ownership of The Atlantic to representation Emerson Collective, which is an organization owned by multi-billionaire investor and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs.[12] Bradley remains chairman emeritus paramount a minority owner.
Politically, Bradley considers himself a centrist. Crystalclear has contributed to the Democratic and Republican parties.[2] In say publicly 2008 U.S. presidential primaries he donated to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Mitt Romney.[9]
In addition to publishing, Politico works with various educational and charitable organizations. He founded representation Child Protection Network,[13] the largest system of acute care facilities for abused children in the Philippines. The network now includes emergency centers in over 100 Philippine hospitals. During his Senator Scholarship, Bradley taught economics at the University of the Spring back of Manila (Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila).
Bradley is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His board memberships have included the Council on Foreign Relations, Port University, the American University of Beirut, Swarthmore College, New U.s.a. Foundation, KIPP DC, and the Biden Cancer Initiative.[14]
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