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17 unusual facts about McKinsey & Company


Barry Cheung

Cheung worked for the management consultancy McKinsey & Company; he was also a member of the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong government in 1993.

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.

Einat Wilf

Wilf served as a Foreign Policy Advisor to Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres, a strategic consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York City and a General Partner with Koor Corporate Venture Capital in Israel.

Ethos Water

Thum, who was working as consultant for McKinsey & Company at the time, realized the potential to create a bottled water brand to raise awareness and funding for safe water programs.

Frederick Gluck

Frederick W. "Fred" Gluck (born 1935) was a longtime top senior partner and director at management consultancy McKinsey & Company, serving as managing director (chief executive) from 1988 to 1994.

Imran Amed

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

James P. Gorman

Before joining Merrill Lynch, Gorman served as a senior partner of McKinsey & Company, where he was a member of the financial services practice, and as an attorney in Melbourne.

Jim Manzi

Later, Manzi worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company where he worked extensively with Fortune 500 clients as well as offshore clients in Latin America, Europe and Asia.

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 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.

Mary Wooldridge

Wooldridge has worked in executive roles with a number of companies including consultants McKinsey & Company in New York and London, Australian Consolidated Press and Publishing and Broadcasting Limited in Sydney.

N. Chandrababu Naidu

Naidu came up with a vision document "Vision 2020" which was devised by US consultancy firm McKinsey & Company.

Octavius Black

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

Richard Heygate

As a businessman, he is chiefly known for being part of the team which created the world's first on-line ATM and for a long career as a McKinsey & Company partner.

Rohit Aggarwala

Before joining the Bloomberg administration, Aggarwala was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company from 2002 to 2006 where he primarily served clients in the transportation and logistics industry.

Stuart Shilson

Stuart Shilson LVO was the Assistant Private Secretary to The Queen in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom from 2001 until 2004, when he returned to management consultants McKinsey & Company, for whom he had formerly worked.

Tandberg

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


1853 in the United States

January – Stephen Foster's "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night", which is later adopted as the state song of Kentucky under the name "My Old Kentucky Home", is published by Firth, Pond, & Company.

Archie McLeod

An injury ended his career and he returned home to Glasgow where he worked as a machinist with John Brown & Company.

Bayley House

Breck was in the agricultural tools business at 51 North Market in Boston, known as Joseph Breck & Company (now called Breck's, founded by his grandfather Joseph Breck and his father, Charles H.B. Breck).

BL 16 inch Mk I naval gun

Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth & Company at Elswick, Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness, William Beardmore & Company at Dalmuir and the Royal Gun Factory at Woolwich made a total of 29 guns of which 18 would be required for both ships at any time.

Bloomberg Government

Bloomberg implemented an aggressive recruiting strategy to staff the Bloomberg Government newsroom in Washington, D.C. which included hiring many of the reporters from leading D.C. media outlets including CQ-Roll Call, the Associated Press, Dow Jones and other industry publications including Kaiser Health News, Army Times and Defense Week.

BNS Sangu

Built by Hall, Russell & Company, she was modelled on the ocean-going trawlers FPV Jura (1973) and FPV Westra (1974).

Capital lending

This financing is done on a wide range of products, from telephones, to copiers, to $200,000 combine harvesters by Deere & Company and CNH Global, or even larger and more expensive construction equipment from manufacturers like Caterpillar and Komatsu.

Carol Remond

Carol S. Remond is an award-winning journalist for Dow Jones Newswires, a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company, publisher of the Wall Street Journal.

Christophe Agou

He first came to prominence with photographs taken in the subway, and published Life Below in 2004 (Quantuck Lane Press / W.W. Norton & Company).

Clarence W. Barron

Clarence W. Barron (July 2, 1855, in Boston, Massachusetts – October 2, 1928) is one of the most influential figures in the history of Dow Jones & Company.

Cynthia H. Milligan

Besides her academic position, Milligan is currently a director of Wells Fargo & Company, San Francisco, California; the Gallup Organization, Omaha, Nebraska, and Princeton, New Jersey; Calvert investment funds, Bethesda, Maryland; and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Michigan.

Darrell Zimmerman

By 1992 Zimmerman was a floor trader at Lee B. Stern & Company where his "questionable billion-dollar trades jolted the Treasury bond market".

Dean G. Witter

Dean G. Witter (August 2, 1887, Wausau, Wisconsin – May 1969, San Francisco, California) was a U.S. businessman who co-founded Dean Witter & Company, which became the largest investment house on the West Coast.

Donnie Elbert

He returned to All Platinum and had a run of minor R&B hits, but left after he claimed authorship of Shirley & Company's R&B chart-topper "Shame Shame Shame" which was credited to label owner Sylvia Robinson.

Double rifle

Most of the world's high-quality riflemakers have produced double rifles for their customers, and the most highly regarded makers from England include Holland and Holland, James Purdey, John Rigby & Company, Westley Richards, George Gibbs, W. J. Jeffery, and Woodward.

E. C. Stearns Bicycle Agency

Edward C. Stearns continued to design important components for his bicycle line in much the same manner as he designed tools for his hardware enterprise, E. C. Stearns & Company.

William Martin, a famous professional bicyclist and winner of the Madison Square Garden races, was hired by E. C. Stearns & Company in April 1896 to ride the Stearns bicycle in Paris, France.

Eric Gordon England

--joined the design office of--> for Frederick Sage & Company, who were building Short-designed seaplanes and Avro 504Ks under licence.

Francesca Eastwood

Eastwood first appeared on the reality television series Mrs. Eastwood & Company when it premiered on May 20, 2012.

Francis Marion McDowell

He later became partner in the banking and brokerage firm of Hallett & Company of New York City, and in this connection made frequent trips to Europe, especially to interest European capitalists in the construction of the Kansas Pacific Railway, of which his banking firm was a sponsor.

Gateway Fashion Mall

The mall was opened in September 1979 with anchor stores Sears, A.W. Lucas & Co., and White Mart.

Gibson Advanced Jumbo

In 1931 Gibson's introduced its first versions of the Dreadnought acoustic guitars branded by C. F. Martin & Company.

Godfrey McHugh

The Air Force then spent $5,000.00 of taxpayer money at Jordan Marsh & Company to purchase new furniture, and allowed media photographs of an Air Force captain proudly standing next to the purchase.

Guy Garcia

A three-time national magazine Awards judge, Garcia serves as a speaker and consultant for major international corporations, including Time Warner, Reebok, The National Ski Aeas Association, Kraft Foods, the Coca Cola Company, Nissan Motors, McKinsey & Co. and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Henry William Clothier

In 1905 Clothier went to Tyneside to work with Charles Hesterman Merz and Bernard Price and joined Mr Alphonse C. Reyrolle at A. Reyrolle & Company in 1906, and remained employed with them for the rest of his life.

Jesse W. Weik

In 1892, Weik published a revised version of the book (Herndon had died in 1891) titled, Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life (New York: D. Appleton. 2 vols.).

John Edward Thornycroft

Thornycroft was born in Chiswick in 1872 and was the eldest son of Sir John Isaac Thornycroft, the founder of the Thornycroft shipbuilding company.

LCM 1

The craft derived from a prototype designed by John I. Thornycroft Ltd. of Woolston, Hampshire, UK.

Lloyd Bell

Bell added expertise to his repertoire while employed also at Max Factor & Company in Hollywood, CA.

Monjo Company

In early 1906 the company purchased a whaling schooner, the Era, from the Thomas Luce Company of New Bedford and hired Capt. George Comer as its master.

Natalie Gregory

She also starred in the Disney, animated film Oliver & Company (1988) as the speaking voice of Jenny Foxworth and appeared in other films.

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.

Next: The Future Just Happened

Next: The Future Just Happened is a book by Michael Lewis published on July 17, 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company.

Robert Wiebking

Originally designed for Kuppenheimer & Company, who later decided it would be too expensive to cast, it was later bought by Frederick Sherman.

RSA Tower

Its tenants include Raycom Media's headquarters, Morgan Keegan & Company, the Capital City Club, the Alabama Public Health Association, Alabama Department of Health, Alabama Department of Insurance, Alabama Artists Gallery, Bell Microproducts, and other legal, financial, and insurance firms.

Signs and Symbols

"Signs and Symbols" is a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, written in English and first published, May 15, 1948 in The New Yorker and then in Nabokov's Dozen (1958: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York).

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.

Sixto Escobar

Weeks before his death, Escobar participated in his last ceremony, where Diego Suárez, president of V. Suárez & Company.

SS Tobruk

Tobruk was a 7,090 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1941 as Empire Builder by William Gray & Sons Ltd for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT).

Steve Brozak

Mr. Brozak is frequently interviewed and quoted by such media sources as the Associated Press, ABC, Barron's, Bloomberg, CNN, Forbes, Dow Jones, Reuters, SmartMoney, TheStreet.com, and The Wall Street Journal.

The Wounded Surgeon

The Wounded Surgeon: Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets is a book by Adam Kirsch, published in 2005 by W. W. Norton & Company (ISBN 978-0393051971).

Trollbäck + Company

Projects include the on-air re-brand of CBS, the visual content for the IAC Video Wall (one of the world’s largest video walls at the Frank Gehry-designed IAC headquarters in New York), titles for the global TED conference, and Oscar-winning Capote, numerous HBO collaborations and live action campaigns for companies such as Infiniti, Nike and Callaway.

WBusiness Books

Academic Learning Company, LLC traces its roots as an academic and educational publisher to D. Appleton & Company (Boston, 1813) which later became Appleton Century Crofts (New York).

White Square

It is known not only as a business center that houses such multinational companies as Deloitte, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, but also as a community landmark, largely due to its fountain (which, during the winter holiday season, is covered with a giant Christmas tree), piazza, mix of cafes and restaurants, community-focused events, and its view of the adjacent Nikolai Chudotvorets Church.

William Adams Delano

He was the nephew of John Crosby Brown, who headed the Brown Brothers & Company banking/trading group, and his father Eugene Delano (1843 – 1920), an 1866 graduate of Williams College, was a partner in the firm.

William Best, 2nd Baron Wynford

Wynford was the son of William Best, 1st Baron Wynford, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and his wife, Mary Anne, daughter of Jerome Knapp Junior of Chilton in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), Clerk of the Haberdashers' Company, by his second wife, Sarah, daughter and eventual heiress of George Noyes of Southcote, Berkshire & Andover.