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4 unusual facts about Management consulting


Edward N. Hay

In 1943, he launched Hay Group, a management consultancy that focused on improving the personnel side of businesses, which he believed was a neglected and underdeveloped area.

Management consulting

In the US, Computer Sciences Corporation's Federal Consulting Practice, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Deloitte Consulting LLP, amongst others, have established a profile for consulting within government organizations and functions.

Booz Allen Hamilton was founded by Edwin G. Booz, a graduate of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, in 1914 as a management consultancy and the first to serve both industry and government clients.

Worshipful Company of Management Consultants

It draws its memberships from practising management consultants and has close links to the Management Consultancies Association and the Institute of Management Consultancy.


American Management Systems

American Management Systems (previous NASDAQ symbol: AMSY) was a high technology and management consulting firm, founded in 1970 by a group of five former Defense Department officials who had worked under Robert McNamara in the Kennedy and Johnson administration.

Baton Broadcast System

In October 1994, Baton hired the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company to help evaluate how to proceed with its national expansion plans.

Caribou Coffee

Caribou Coffee founder, John Puckett, was working as a management consultant for Boston-based firm Bain & Company, helping develop ideas and strategies for other companies, when he decided he wanted to become an entrepreneur.

Herbert A. Shepard

In management consulting, Herb's clients included Bell-Northern Research, Syncrude, Esso, TRW, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Union Carbide, USAID and most of the departments of the federal governments of the U.S.A. and Canada.

Lance Secretan

Between 1980 and 1985, he taught leadership at McMaster and then York University in Canada and since 1985, he has worked as an author, independent management consultant, and coach and keynote speaker.

Mason School of Business

The Bachelor's in Business Administration program (BBA) is a two-year program within the College of William & Mary that provides undergraduate business education in five majors: Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Operations & Information Systems Management, and Process Management & Consulting.

Uwe Böning

Uwe Böning (born 1947 in Zittau) is a German business coach, management consultant and author.


see also

Cambridge Discovery Park

CDP, formerly known as Acorn Park, was the home of Arthur D. Little, an international management consulting firm, for nearly 50 years.

Claude Mongeau

Before joining CN, Claude Mongeau was a partner with Groupe Secor, a Montreal-based management consulting firm providing strategic advice to large Canadian corporations such as Bombardier and Bell Canada.

Giorgio Rossi Cairo

He is managing director of Value Partners, the management consulting multinational he founded in 1993.

Imran Amed

Upon graduation in 2002, he moved to London to work for McKinsey & Company, the global management consulting firm.

John Hinsdale

From 1986 through 1991, Hinsdale decided to apply his computer science in the field of management consulting, working as a specialist for the New York firm of McKinsey & Company.

Ken Mora

After receiving a layoff from Hughes Spacecraft, in El Segundo, CA, he work freelance with his graphic designer with MacTemps (now Aquent) and was ultimately hired away to the post of Art Director at The Verity Group, a management consulting firm in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles.

Keyrus

Keyrus is a management consulting business headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France.

Linda Bilmes

Between 1988 and 1997, she worked at strategic management consulting company The Boston Consulting Group.

Mike Kim

He is currently a Managing Director at Ferrazzi Greenlight, a management consulting firm and research institute, working with founder and CEO Keith Ferrazzi on human behavior and culture change.

Naked Capitalism

Naked Capitalism is a blog published by Susan Webber, the principal of Aurora Advisors, Inc., a management consulting firm, and author of ECONned.

Nancy McKinstry

Early in her career,McKinstry held management positions with Booz & Company (formerly Booz Allen Hamilton), an international management-consulting firm, where she focused on assignments in the media and technology industries.

Ramon O’Callaghan

From 1977 to 1989 he spend most time in industry with Texas Instruments as sales engineer and project manager; at Codorníu Winery as controller; at Harvard Business School as researcher; and at the management consulting firm Institut Cerdà as director.

Sherri W. Goodman

John Goodman is Chief Operating Officer of Accenture Federal, a global management consulting, technology service and outsourcing company.

Steven Myers

In 1982, Steve founded the Aerospace & Defense management consulting firm Steven Myers & Associates, (SM&A).

Steven Myers is the founder and former CEO of the large aerospace and defense management consulting firm, Steven Myers & Associates (SM&A).