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Encyclopedia > A.T. Kearney
A.T. Kearney
Type Private
Founded 1926
Headquarters Chicago
Key people Paul A. Laudicina, Managing Officer and Chairman of the Board
Industry Management consulting
Products Management consulting services
Revenue $798 million in 2005
Employees 2450
Website www.atkearney.com

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History

A.T. Kearney was founded Andrew Thomas Kearney, the former first partner of McKinsey of McKinsey & Company, founded in 1926. McKinsey & Company was one of the first large organized consulting firms. Prior to the establishment of McKinsey & Company, consultants usually worked solo or in small teams. McKinsey & Company is a privately owned management consulting firm that focuses on solving issues of concern to senior management in large corporations and organizations. ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ...


In 1939, A.T. Kearney left McKinsey & Company after James McKinsey died. The remaining partners (Tom Bower and Andrew Kearney) disagreed over how to run the firm. Kearney kept the Chicago office and created a new firm called A.T. Kearney. Tom Bower retained the name McKinsey and the rest of the McKinsey offices[1]. 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full year calendar). ...


The firm operated within the United States until 1964 when it opened its first international office in Düsseldorf. A.T. Kearney now has 48 offices located in major business centres in 32 countries. 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and (together with Cologne and the Ruhr Area) the economic center of Western Germany. ...


Spin-offs

Practice Areas

A.T. Kearney's industry specialties include Automotive, Communications, Consumer & Retail, Financial Institutions, Government, High Tech & Electronics, Pharma & Health Care, and Energy & Utilities. Major competency teams include Supply Chain Management, Growth Strategies, Mergers, Innovation & Complexity, IT Strategies, and Transformation. Car redirects here. ... The term communications is used in a number of disciplines: Communications, also known as communication studies is the academic discipline which studies communication, generally seen as a mixture between media studies and linguistics. ... Supply chain management (SCM) is the process of planning, implementing, and controlling the operations of the supply chain with the purpose to satisfy customer requirements as efficiently as possible. ... This page deals with the combination of two companies into one. ... Look up transformation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


Customers

Clients include 70 percent of the Fortune 1000, governments and other non-profit institutions. A.T. Kearney is also active in the community and performs pro bono engagements for charitable organizations and government agencies worldwide. It has been suggested that Fortune 500 be merged into this article or section. ...


Competitors

A.T. Kearney's top competitors include McKinsey & Company, Bain & Co., The Boston Consulting Group, and Booz Allen Hamilton. McKinsey & Company is a privately owned management consulting firm. ... Bain & Company is a management consulting firm, headquartered in Boston, MA, recognized as one of the leading firms in the consulting industry, along with McKinsey & Company, A.T. Kearney and the Boston Consulting Group. ... The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a leading management consulting firm founded by Harvard Business School alumn Bruce Henderson in 1963. ... Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. ...


Organizational Development

Recruiting

A.T. Kearney starts new employees in the position of Business Analyst or Associate. Unlike many management consulting firms, there is no up-or-out policy.


The majority of Associates are MBAs recruited from Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School, Stanford Business School, Duke's Fuqua School of Business, Penn's Wharton School, Carnegie Mellon, MIT Sloan School of Management, the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business,UVa's Darden School of Business and the Kellogg School of Management. Occassionally it also hires J.D.s, Ph.D.s, and those with significant industry management experience into the associates position. Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. ... Columbia Business School (part of Columbia University), officially named the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and also known as CBS, was established in 1916 to provide business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate Columbia University students. ... Stanford Graduate School of Business, also known as Stanford Business School or Stanford GSB, is one of the top business schools in the world, and part of Stanford University. ... Duke University is a private coeducational research university located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. ... The Fuqua School of Business The Fuqua School of Business is the business school of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is a business school at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. The school was founded by Joseph Wharton, who also was one of the founders of Swarthmore College (founded in 1864), in 1881 as the first collegiate business school in the United States. ... Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It is one of the worlds leading business schools, conducting research and teaching in finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, strategic management, economics, organizational behavior, operations management, supply chain... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (UM, U of M or U-M) is a coeducational public research university in the U.S. state of Michigan. ... The University of Chicago is an elite private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ... The University of Virginia (also called U.Va. ... The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, also known as The Kellogg School or simply Kellogg, is considered one of the worlds leading graduate business schools. ...


The Business Analysts is typically a recent college graduate with an enthusiasm for problem-solving and an analytical skill-set. No specific major is required, though a demonstrated interest in economics and business can be valuable. The majority of people hired for this position come from Caltech, MIT, Princeton, Penn/Wharton, Brown, Harvard, Columbia, the University of Michigan (Ross School of Business), and Yale (School of Management). California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (commonly known as Caltech) is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... Brown University is a private university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (UM, U of M or U-M) is a coeducational public research university in the U.S. state of Michigan. ... YALE (Yet Another Learning Environment) is an environment for machine learning experiments and data mining. ...


In interview process for prospective business analysts coming straight out of college typically involves an on-campus interview followed by an interview with staff at one of A.T. Kearney's offices. Interviews include case questions testing both quantitative and business acumen”.


The firm also uses junior and senior year summer interships as a screening process. Those who demonstrate high performance are invited to join the firm full time.


A.T. Kearney has the opportunity to be highly selective among its entry level applicants. In 2005, A.T. Kearney's North American Offices reported more than 10,000 applications received for the Business Analyst position, from which 40 BAs were hired.


External links

  • Executive Agenda

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References

  1. ^ A Brief History of the Management Consulting Profession, last accessed 2007-03-25.


 

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