Arthur D. Little
Encyclopedia
Arthur D. Little is an international management consulting
firm originally headquartered in Boston
, Massachusetts, United States, and formally incorporated by that name in 1909 by Arthur Dehon Little
, an MIT
chemist who had discovered acetate
. Arthur D. Little pioneered the concept of contracted professional services. The company played key roles in the development of business strategy, operations research
, the word processor
, the first synthetic penicillin
, LexisNexis
, and NASDAQ
. Today the company is a multi-national management consulting firm.
The roots of the company were started in 1886 by Arthur Dehon Little, an MIT
chemist, and co-worker Roger B. Griffin (Russell B. Griffin), another chemist and a graduate of the University of Vermont
who had met when they both worked for Richmond Paper Company
in East Providence, Rhode Island
. After Griffin left Richmond Paper following Little, their new company, Little & Grifffin, was located in Boston
where MIT was also located. Griffin and Little prepared a manuscript for The Chemistry of Paper-making which was for many years an authoritative text in the area. The book had not been entirely finished when Griffin was killed in a laboratory accident in 1893.
After this tragedy, Little carried on in the business alone for a number of years. During these years he founded the Cellulose Products Company demonstrating that cellulose acetate could be used in producing nonflammable wire insulation and artificial silk. The company didn't do well financially, and when it was dissolved, Eastman Kodak
purchased the company's patents for the first nonflammable motion picture film and the Lustron Company bought the artificial silk patents becoming the only American manufacturer of acetate silk.
Little, who had studied Chemistry at MIT, collaborated with MIT and William Hultz Walker
of the MIT Chemistry department, forming a partnership, Little & Walker, which lasted from 1900 to 1905, while both MIT and Little's company were still located in Boston. The partnership dissolved in 1905 when Walker dedicated his full time to being in charge of the new Research Laboratory of Applied Chemistry at MIT.
Little continued on his own and formally incorporated the company, Arthur D. Little (ADL), in 1909. He conducted analytical studies, the precursor of the consulting studies for which the firm would later become famous. He also taught papermaking at MIT from 1893 to 1916.
In 1916 ADL was commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway
to do a survey of Canada's natural resources. In 1917, the company moved to a building of its own, the Arthur D. Little Inc., Building
, at 30 Memorial Drive
on the Charles River
next to the campus of MIT which had moved to Cambridge from Boston in 1916. In November 1953, ADL opened a forty acre site for their Acorn Park labs in West Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Arlington, Massachusetts
, which is quite a distance from MIT.
In 1981, ADL produced the European Commission
's first white paper on telecommunication
s deregulation
, having completed the first worldwide telecommunications database on phones installed, markets, technical trends, services and regulatory information. It also helped privatize British Rail
, generally regarded as one of the most complex privatization
exercises in the world.
By 2001, Arthur D. Little had more than 20,000 employees around the world. But, a new management team had badly mismanaged the company's core business, had engaged in manipulation of the Memorial Drive Trust, and attempted a sale of the Technology and Product Development business. The ADL Board of Trustees replaced this management team, but the damage had already been done, and Arthur D. Little had to file chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
.
At an auction in 2002, Paris
-based Altran Technologies
bought the Arthur D. Little brand name and financed a management buyout
of the non-US offices.
In 2002, its "Technology and Innovation" business was acquired by TIAX
LLC (formed by Kenan Sahin
for this purpose). TIAX formed in May 2002 when Dr.Kenan Sahin
, who eventually became company president, bought Arthur D. Little's technology business for $16.5 million, inheriting much of Arthur D. Little's existing U.S. Department of Defense work.
In 2006 Richard Clarke, the chief executive officer (who led Arthur D. Little following purchase by Altran in 2001) stepped down and M. Träm was appointed as Chief Executive Officer.
In 2007, the entire board
of ADL Sweden was under investigation for serious tax fraud by the Swedish Enforcement Administration
and the Swedish Tax Agency
. The reason for the investigation was that the board had chosen to register the ADL Swedish corporation as a company in Bruxelles, Belgium, instead of in Sweden
. Belgian corporate taxes are lower than in Sweden.
On 14th November 2011, Dr. Träm resigned as ADL CEO and ADL is preparing to carry out a MBO from Altran.
Arthur D. Little today has successfully rebuilt its practice in Oil & Gas, telecommunications, automotive, chemicals, and public sector consulting. It has been ranked as one of the top management consulting firms. In fact, Arthur D. Little ranked 29th in the US Vault ranking and 13th in the European one.
Arthur D. Little publishes a bi-annual thought leadership collection called PRISM.
, Bain & Company
, Booz & Company
, the Boston Consulting Group
, Capgemini
, Charles River Associates, Deloitte Consulting, McKinsey & Company
, Monitor Group
, Oliver Wyman
, and PA Consulting Group
.
Politics and public service
Other
Management consulting
Management consulting indicates both the industry and practice of helping organizations improve their performance primarily through the analysis of existing organizational problems and development of plans for improvement....
firm originally headquartered in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
, Massachusetts, United States, and formally incorporated by that name in 1909 by Arthur Dehon Little
Arthur Dehon Little
Arthur Dehon Little was an American chemist and chemical engineer. He founded the consulting company Arthur D. Little and was instrumental in developing chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
, an MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
chemist who had discovered acetate
Acetate
An acetate is a derivative of acetic acid. This term includes salts and esters, as well as the anion found in solution. Most of the approximately 5 billion kilograms of acetic acid produced annually in industry are used in the production of acetates, which usually take the form of polymers. In...
. Arthur D. Little pioneered the concept of contracted professional services. The company played key roles in the development of business strategy, operations research
Operations research
Operations research is an interdisciplinary mathematical science that focuses on the effective use of technology by organizations...
, the word processor
Word processor
A word processor is a computer application used for the production of any sort of printable material....
, the first synthetic penicillin
Penicillin
Penicillin is a group of antibiotics derived from Penicillium fungi. They include penicillin G, procaine penicillin, benzathine penicillin, and penicillin V....
, LexisNexis
LexisNexis
LexisNexis Group is a company providing computer-assisted legal research services. In 2006 it had the world's largest electronic database for legal and public-records related information...
, and NASDAQ
NASDAQ
The NASDAQ Stock Market, also known as the NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange. "NASDAQ" originally stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations". It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization in the world, after the New York Stock Exchange. As of...
. Today the company is a multi-national management consulting firm.
History
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
chemist, and co-worker Roger B. Griffin (Russell B. Griffin), another chemist and a graduate of the University of Vermont
University of Vermont
The University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or...
who had met when they both worked for Richmond Paper Company
Richmond Paper Company Mill Complex
Richmond Paper Company Mill Complex is an historic site at 310 Bourne Avenue in East Providence, Rhode Island.The mill was built by Austin Co. and James Stuart and Cook in 1883 and added to the National Historic Register in 2006....
in East Providence, Rhode Island
East Providence, Rhode Island
East Providence is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 47,037 at the 2010 census, making it the fifth largest city in the state.-Geography:East Providence is located at ....
. After Griffin left Richmond Paper following Little, their new company, Little & Grifffin, was located in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
where MIT was also located. Griffin and Little prepared a manuscript for The Chemistry of Paper-making which was for many years an authoritative text in the area. The book had not been entirely finished when Griffin was killed in a laboratory accident in 1893.
After this tragedy, Little carried on in the business alone for a number of years. During these years he founded the Cellulose Products Company demonstrating that cellulose acetate could be used in producing nonflammable wire insulation and artificial silk. The company didn't do well financially, and when it was dissolved, Eastman Kodak
Eastman Kodak
Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational imaging and photographic equipment, materials and services company headquarted in Rochester, New York, United States. It was founded by George Eastman in 1892....
purchased the company's patents for the first nonflammable motion picture film and the Lustron Company bought the artificial silk patents becoming the only American manufacturer of acetate silk.
Little, who had studied Chemistry at MIT, collaborated with MIT and William Hultz Walker
William Hultz Walker
William Hultz Walker April 7, 1869 – July 9, 1934 was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and graduated in 1890 at Penn State College and took his Ph.D. at Göttingen . In 1894 he accepted the chair of industrial chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where from 1908 he was also director of...
of the MIT Chemistry department, forming a partnership, Little & Walker, which lasted from 1900 to 1905, while both MIT and Little's company were still located in Boston. The partnership dissolved in 1905 when Walker dedicated his full time to being in charge of the new Research Laboratory of Applied Chemistry at MIT.
Little continued on his own and formally incorporated the company, Arthur D. Little (ADL), in 1909. He conducted analytical studies, the precursor of the consulting studies for which the firm would later become famous. He also taught papermaking at MIT from 1893 to 1916.
In 1916 ADL was commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway
The Canadian Pacific Railway , formerly also known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001...
to do a survey of Canada's natural resources. In 1917, the company moved to a building of its own, the Arthur D. Little Inc., Building
Arthur D. Little Inc., Building
The Arthur D. Little Inc., Building is a National Historic Landmark at 30 Memorial Drivein Cambridge, Massachusetts.The building was constructed in 1917 for the Arthur D. Little company alongside the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
, at 30 Memorial Drive
Memorial Drive (Cambridge)
Memorial Drive runs along the north bank of the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is designated as U.S. Route 3 or Massachusetts Route 3 for its entire length, and Massachusetts Route 2 over the portion west of the Boston University Bridge....
on the Charles River
Charles River
The Charles River is an long river that flows in an overall northeasterly direction in eastern Massachusetts, USA. From its source in Hopkinton, the river travels through 22 cities and towns until reaching the Atlantic Ocean at Boston...
next to the campus of MIT which had moved to Cambridge from Boston in 1916. In November 1953, ADL opened a forty acre site for their Acorn Park labs in West Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Arlington, Massachusetts
Arlington, Massachusetts
Arlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, six miles northwest of Boston. The population was 42,844 at the 2010 census.-History:...
, which is quite a distance from MIT.
In 1981, ADL produced the European Commission
European Commission
The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union....
's first white paper on telecommunication
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
s deregulation
Deregulation
Deregulation is the removal or simplification of government rules and regulations that constrain the operation of market forces.Deregulation is the removal or simplification of government rules and regulations that constrain the operation of market forces.Deregulation is the removal or...
, having completed the first worldwide telecommunications database on phones installed, markets, technical trends, services and regulatory information. It also helped privatize British Rail
British Rail
British Railways , which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages...
, generally regarded as one of the most complex privatization
Privatization
Privatization is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency or public service from the public sector to the private sector or to private non-profit organizations...
exercises in the world.
By 2001, Arthur D. Little had more than 20,000 employees around the world. But, a new management team had badly mismanaged the company's core business, had engaged in manipulation of the Memorial Drive Trust, and attempted a sale of the Technology and Product Development business. The ADL Board of Trustees replaced this management team, but the damage had already been done, and Arthur D. Little had to file chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code
Chapter 11 is a chapter of the United States Bankruptcy Code, which permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States. Chapter 11 bankruptcy is available to every business, whether organized as a corporation or sole proprietorship, and to individuals, although it is most...
.
At an auction in 2002, Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
-based Altran Technologies
Altran
Altran Technologies, SA is a European consulting firm founded in 1982 in France. Altran, self dubbed the European leader in high technology and innovation consultancy, operates primarily in technology and innovation consultancy, accounting for nearly half of its turnover...
bought the Arthur D. Little brand name and financed a management buyout
Management buyout
A management buyout is a form of acquisition where a company's existing managers acquire a large part or all of the company.- Overview :Management buyouts are similar in all major legal aspects to any other acquisition of a company...
of the non-US offices.
In 2002, its "Technology and Innovation" business was acquired by TIAX
TIAX
TIAX LLC is a laboratory-based technology development company that takes early stage inventions, and in its labs, transforms them into technology-enabled products ready for spin-out and commercialization. TIAX is headquartered in Lexington, MA with non-laboratory offices in Cupertino and Irvine, CA...
LLC (formed by Kenan Sahin
Kenan Sahin
Kenan Eyup Sahin is a Turkish scientist and entrepreneur in the United States.After graduating from Robert College of Istanbul, he received both his B.S. and Ph.D...
for this purpose). TIAX formed in May 2002 when Dr.Kenan Sahin
Kenan Sahin
Kenan Eyup Sahin is a Turkish scientist and entrepreneur in the United States.After graduating from Robert College of Istanbul, he received both his B.S. and Ph.D...
, who eventually became company president, bought Arthur D. Little's technology business for $16.5 million, inheriting much of Arthur D. Little's existing U.S. Department of Defense work.
In 2006 Richard Clarke, the chief executive officer (who led Arthur D. Little following purchase by Altran in 2001) stepped down and M. Träm was appointed as Chief Executive Officer.
In 2007, the entire board
Board
-Flat surface:* Lumber, or other rigid material, milled or sawn flat** See :Category:Engineered wood** Cutting board** Sounding board, of a musical instrument* Cardboard* Paperboard*Corrugated fiberboard*Fiberboard*Particle board, also known as chipboard...
of ADL Sweden was under investigation for serious tax fraud by the Swedish Enforcement Administration
Swedish Enforcement Administration
The Swedish Enforcement Administration is a government agency handling all debt collection in Sweden.The Swedish Enforcement Administration is the only organization in Sweden empowered to withdraw money from bank accounts of debtors and, if necessary, visit the homes and companies of debtors to...
and the Swedish Tax Agency
Swedish Tax Agency
The Swedish Tax Agency is a government agency in Sweden responsible for national tax collection and administering the population registration....
. The reason for the investigation was that the board had chosen to register the ADL Swedish corporation as a company in Bruxelles, Belgium, instead of in Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. Belgian corporate taxes are lower than in Sweden.
On 14th November 2011, Dr. Träm resigned as ADL CEO and ADL is preparing to carry out a MBO from Altran.
Arthur D. Little today has successfully rebuilt its practice in Oil & Gas, telecommunications, automotive, chemicals, and public sector consulting. It has been ranked as one of the top management consulting firms. In fact, Arthur D. Little ranked 29th in the US Vault ranking and 13th in the European one.
Arthur D. Little publishes a bi-annual thought leadership collection called PRISM.
Competitors
ADL most often competes directly for contracts with A.T. KearneyA.T. Kearney
A.T. Kearney is a global management consulting firm, focusing on strategic and operational CEO-agenda concerns. It was founded in 1926, and its head office is in Chicago, Illinois...
, Bain & Company
Bain & Company
Bain & Company is a global management consulting firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Bain is considered one of the most prestigious consulting firms in the world, with 47 offices in 30 countries and over 5,500 professionals on staff globally...
, Booz & Company
Booz & Company
Booz & Company is a global management consulting firm established in the United States in 1914. It is recognized as one of the most prestigious management consulting firms in the world and one of the best consulting firms to work for by Consulting Magazine...
, the Boston Consulting Group
Boston Consulting Group
The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm with offices in 42 countries. It is recognized as one of the most prestigious management consulting firms in the world. It is one of only three companies to appear in the top 15 of Fortunes "Best Companies to Work For" report for...
, Capgemini
Capgemini
Capgemini is a French global IT services company, one of the world's largest management consulting, outsourcing and professional services companies with a staff of 114,274 operating in 40 countries. It is headquartered in Paris and was founded in 1967 by Serge Kampf, the current chairman, in...
, Charles River Associates, Deloitte Consulting, McKinsey & Company
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey & Company, Inc. is a global management consulting firm that focuses on solving issues of concern to senior management. McKinsey serves as an adviser to many businesses, governments, and institutions...
, Monitor Group
Monitor Group
Monitor Group is a global management consulting firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States and with 27 offices in 26 major cities around the world. It provides strategy consultation services to the senior management of organizations and governments...
, Oliver Wyman
Oliver Wyman
Oliver Wyman is an international management consulting firm. Founded in 1984, the firm adopted its current form in May 2007, when Mercer Oliver Wyman joined with Mercer Management Consulting and Mercer Delta to become one firm named Oliver Wyman. Oliver Wyman is headquartered in New York City with...
, and PA Consulting Group
PA Consulting Group
PA Consulting Group is a global management and IT consulting and technology and innovation organisation with specialist expertise across the defence, energy, financial services, government and public services, healthcare, automotive and consumer goods, telecoms, and transport and logistics sectors...
.
Notable current and former employees
Business- Bruce HendersonBruce HendersonBruce Doolin Henderson was the founder of the Boston Consulting Group . Henderson founded BCG in 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts.- Biography :...
, founder of the Boston Consulting GroupBoston Consulting GroupThe Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm with offices in 42 countries. It is recognized as one of the most prestigious management consulting firms in the world. It is one of only three companies to appear in the top 15 of Fortunes "Best Companies to Work For" report for... - Charles Koch, Chairman and chief executive officer, Koch IndustriesKoch IndustriesKoch Industries, Inc. , is an American private energy conglomerate based in Wichita, Kansas, with subsidiaries involved in manufacturing, trading and investments. Koch also owns Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals and Matador Cattle Company...
- Royal LittleRoyal LittleRoyal Little , was the founder and chair of Textron, and is considered to be the Father of Conglomerates....
, founder of TextronTextronTextron is a conglomerate that includes Bell Helicopter, E-Z-GO, Cessna Aircraft Company, and Greenlee, among others. It was founded by Royal Little in 1923 as the Special Yarns Company, and is headquartered at the Textron Tower in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.With total revenues of...
, Inc. - Dr. Devendra Singh, strategist
- Sam MalinSam MalinSam Malin is a Canadian businessman based in Madagascar. He has founded a number of companies including Madagascar Oil, Red Island Minerals, Avana Petroleum and Avana Uranium.- Educational Background :...
, co-founder and CEO of Madagascar OilMadagascar OilMadagascar Oil SA is a Malagasy company, founded by Sam Malin with South African businessman Michael Smith and Australian businessmen Robert Nelson. Madagascar Oil focuses on the development, exploration and production of petroleum. It is the principal onshore oil company in Madagascar in terms of... - H. Donald WilsonH. Donald WilsonH. Donald Wilson was a database pioneer and entrepreneur. He was also the first president and one of the principal creators of the Lexis legal information system, and Nexis. An attorney by training who became an information industry innovator and a venture capital consultant to numerous...
, ADL lead consultant to and first president of LexisNexisLexisNexisLexisNexis Group is a company providing computer-assisted legal research services. In 2006 it had the world's largest electronic database for legal and public-records related information...
database - Dipl.-Ing. Philipp Hess, Geschäftsführer (Managing Director) HANS HESS AUTOTEILE GmbH
- Al AngrisaniAl AngrisaniAlbert Angrisani, also known as Al Angrisani is the former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor and Chief of Staff under President Ronald Reagan, as well as an author and business media personality...
, Angrisani Turnarounds, LLC
Politics and public service
- Merrill CookMerrill CookMerrill Cook was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Utah.Cook, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He graduated from East High School in 1964 and the University...
, former member of the United States House of Representatives from Utah. - Glen FukushimaGlen FukushimaGlen Fukushima is a Japanese American business leader and former public servant.-Government Service:As Deputy Assistant United States Trade Representative for Japan and China and Director for Japanese Affairs at the Office of the United States Trade Representative , Fukushima gained a reputation...
, advisor to U.S. President Bill ClintonBill ClintonWilliam Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation... - James M. GavinJames M. GavinJames Maurice "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin was a prominent Lieutenant General in the United States Army during World War II...
, US Army Lieutenant General, World War II veteran, Commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, and later US AmbassadorAmbassadorAn ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....
to FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... - David Brown, Chief Executive IChemE (Institution of Chemical EngineersInstitution of Chemical EngineersThe Institution of Chemical Engineers is a global professional engineering institution with over 33,000 members in over 120 countries worldwide, founded in 1922, and awarded a Royal Charter in 1957.-Structure:...
)
Other
- Karl P. Stevenson, Arthur D. Little's President and Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Chemical and Biological Warfare that in 1950 expedited the creation of Camp Detrick's Special Operations Division that consolidated chemical and biological warfare projects in one location.
- Winnett BoydWinnett BoydWinnett Boyd is a Canadian engineer who made major contributions to the development of the jet engine and nuclear reactor design.-Early life and education:...
, engineer - Fischer BlackFischer BlackFischer Sheffey Black was an American economist, best known as one of the authors of the famous Black–Scholes equation.-Background:...
, economist - Philip Chapman, Australian-born American astronaut
- Peter GlaserPeter GlaserPeter Edward Glaser is an American scientist and aerospace engineer. He served as Vice President, Advanced Technology , was employed at Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, MA ; subsequently he served as a consultant to the company . He was president of Power from Space Consultants...
, inventor of the Solar power satellite - Raymond Hainer, chemist and mentor of Donald SchonDonald SchönDonald Alan Schön was an influential thinker in developing the theory and practice of reflective professional learning in the twentieth century.- Education and career :...
- David LevyDavid Levy (inventor)David Levy - inventor with over a dozen patents, he also served as "Inventor in Residence" to Arthur D. Little Consulting. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT...
, inventor - Pamela LowPamela LowPamela Low was an American flavorist, best known for developing and creating the flavor coating for Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal....
, developed the flavored coating for Cap'n Crunch cereal - Donald SchönDonald SchönDonald Alan Schön was an influential thinker in developing the theory and practice of reflective professional learning in the twentieth century.- Education and career :...
, academic - Jack Treynor, economist
- Bernard VonnegutBernard VonnegutBernard Vonnegut was an American atmospheric scientist credited with discovering that silver iodide could be used effectively in cloud seeding to produce snow and rain...
, atmospheric scientist - Jean E. de Valpine, CEO of Memorial Drive Trust
Further reading
- James Adams (1992). Bull's eye: the assassination and life of supergun inventor Gerald Bull. (Chapter Seven) Times Books.
- Peter Herman (2006). Managing other people's business, but not our own. www.adlbook.com
- E. J. Kahn, Jr. (1986). The Problem Solvers. Little Brown.
External links
- Arthur D. Little Official website
- Arthur D. Little 125 yrs anniversary website
- PRISM: bi-annual thought leadership collection
- Of Silk Purses and Lead Balloons
- ICHEME Official website
- Alumni Association
- The Original ADL Alumni Association
- ADL Chronicles Products and Inventions from the ADL Labs
- http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/online/industry-directory/organisations/ar/Arthur-D-Little--Tiax-