The World's Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century

by Christopher D. McKenna

Book Overview

In The World's Newest Profession, Christopher McKenna offers a history of management consulting in the twentieth century. While management consulting may not yet be a recognized profession, the leading consulting firms have been advising and reshaping the largest organizations in the world since the 1920s. This groundbreaking study details how the elite consulting firms, including McKinsey and Booz Allen, expanded after U.S. regulatory changes during...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521810396
• ISBN13: 9780521810395
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"