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2 unusual facts about McKinsey


AbsolutData

AbsolutData was founded by Anil Kaul, former consultant for McKinsey, along with Sudeshna Datta, and Suhale Kapoor.

Ashok Alexander

Ashok Alexander is a former consultant with McKinsey and set up the India operations of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.


Dasient

The company was founded by ex-Googlers Neil Daswani and Shariq Rizvi, and former McKinsey strategy consultant Ameet Ranadive.

Guidewire Software

The company was established in 2001 founded by six people: Ken Branson, James Kwak, John Raguin, and Marcus Ryu, from Ariba (and McKinsey, where James and Marcus had met), and John Seybold and Mark Shaw from Kana Software.

Indian School of Business

Co-founders Rajat Gupta and Anil Kumar (both McKinsey & Company senior executives) worked together and directed teams of McKinsey consultants to start the school.

Infomediary

The concept of the infomediary was first suggested by former McKinsey consultant John Hagel III and former Harvard Business School professor Jeffrey Rayport in their article The Coming Battle for Customer Information.

John Allen Clark

Clark took over the chairmanship of AT&E and British Ericsson, and in 1964 called in McKinsey's, the management consultancy company, to advise on reorganization.

John Penrose

Penrose met the Hon. Dido (Diana) Harding, only daughter of Lord Harding, while both worked at McKinsey.

Magothy River

Some of the creeks on its south shore drain highly developed portions of Severna Park and Arnold, especially North Cypress Creek, which drains much of the Park Plaza and Giant shopping centers along Ritchie Highway north of McKinsey Road.

McKinsey 7S Framework

The McKinsey 7S Framework is a management model developed by well-known business consultants Robert H. Waterman, Jr. and Tom Peters (who also developed the MBWA-- "Management By Walking Around" motif, and authored In Search of Excellence) in the 1980s.

National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management

Among the members of the volunteer group reported in 2008 were Adobe Systems chairman Charles Geschke, Korn/Ferry chief executive Paul Reilly, former Freddie Mac CEO Richard Syron, Gerard R. Roche of Heidrick & Struggles, and former McKinsey managing director Frederick Gluck; Lawrence Bossidy, former CEO of Honeywell, has been a pro bono consultant.

Octavius Black

Black led major programmes with clients including RBS, BP, McKinsey, Barclays, Zurich, InterCity and Sizewell B.

Reverse auction

Pioneer of online reverse auctions, FreeMarkets, was founded in 1995 by former McKinsey consultant and General Electric executive Glen Meakem after he failed to find internal backing for the idea of a reverse auction division at General Electric.

Scott McKinsey

McKinsey is the son of actress Beverlee McKinsey known for her memorable performances on Another World and Guiding Light through the 70s, 80s and 90s.

Silvio Scaglia

There, he joined Gianfilippo Cuneo's team, and in 1989 he followed Cuneo to the McKinsey spin-off, Bain & Company (former Bain & Cuneo Associati), where he worked on the automotive sector, notably for Piaggio.

Sir Michael Barber

In the past, Sir Michael served as a partner and head of the global education practice at McKinsey, advisor to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and a global expert on education reform and implementation of large-scale system change.

Tandberg

Halvorsen was a relatively new hire with a background from McKinsey.

Teach For India

Many TFI Fellows in recent years are young professionals who have worked in the corporate sector for organisations such as Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Microsoft, JPMorgan, Hindustan Unilever, Infosys, Thermax and Siemens.

Tomoko Namba

She started DeNA after working on a consulting assignment with Sony's So-net while she was a consultant at Mckinsey.

Uri Dadush

In the private sector, he was president and CEO of the Economist Intelligence Unit and Business International, part of the Economist Group (1986–1992); group vice president, international, for Data Resources, Inc. (1982–1986), now Global Insight; and a consultant with McKinsey and Co. in Europe.


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