Booz Allen Hamilton: Helping Clients Envision the Future
Language: English
Published by Greenwich Publishing Group, Inc, Old Saybrook, CT, 2004
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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128 p. Illustrations (color). Timeline. Index. From WIkipedia: "Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., or more commonly Booz Allen, is an American consulting firm headquartered in Tysons Corner, Fairfax County, Virginia, with 80 other offices throughout the United States. It is recognized as one of the most prestigious technology consulting firms in the world and one of the best consulting firms to work for by Consulting Magazine. Founded in 1914 by Edwin G. Booz, the company is one of the oldest management consulting firms in the world. Booz Allen Hamilton is engaged in providing management and technology consulting services to the United States government and commercial services. Booz Allen s services include strategic planning, human capital and learning, communications, operational improvement, information technology work, systems engineering, organizational change efforts, modeling and simulation, program management, assurance and resilience, and economic business analysis. As of August 2008, what was formerly Booz Allen Hamilton s parent company (which used the Booz Allen name itself) divided in two. The Booz Allen Hamilton moniker was retained by the half focusing on U.S. governmental matters, with Booz & Company taking sole control of its commercial strategy and international portfolio. Booz Allen Hamilton is majority owned by private equity firm The Carlyle Group, while Booz & Company is owned and operated as a partnership. On November 17, 2010, Booz Allen's shares of common stock began trading at the New York Stock Exchange.After graduating from Northwestern University in Chicago in 1914, Edwin G. Booz developed the business theory that companies would be more successful if they could call on someone outside their own organizations for expert, impartial advice. This theory developed into a new profession management consulting and the firm that would bear his name. "In 1940, the firm was hired to help the United States Secretary of the Navy with World War II preparations. Since then, Booz Allen has had a hand in several notable private and public engagements throughout its years, such as advising on the breakup of Ma Bell and helping organize the National Football League in the 1960s." The firm has gone through several name changes is its near-100 years of existence. These include: Edwin G. Booz, Business Engineering Service; Edwin G. Booz Surveys; Edwin G. Booz and Fry Surveys; Booz, Fry, Allen & Hamilton; Booz, Allen & Hamilton; and finally Booz Allen Hamilton. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Booz Allen Hamilton: Helping Clients Envision the Future
- Author
- Kleiner, Art
- Publisher
- Greenwich Publishing Group, Inc, Old Saybrook, CT
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Very good. No dust jacket.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0944641644
- ISBN 13
- 9780944641644
- Edition
- First edition. First printing [stated].
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