Edwin G. Booz
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Edwin G. Booz founded the consulting firm Booz Allen & Hamilton, the predecessor of both Booz Allen Hamilton
- which focuses on government contracting - and Booz & Company
, a commercial management-consulting firm.
Born in 1887, in Reading, Pennsylvania
, to a family of modest means and one of seven sons, Booz worked his way through prep school, college, and graduate school at many and varied kinds of work--tutor, bookkeeper, draftsman, and 'business investigator.' When Booz left the Kellogg School
at Northwestern University
in 1914 with a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in psychology, a brother of one of the Nations most prestigious Fraternities, Alpha Delta Phi
, he went into business for himself to perform studies and analyses of businesses.
He conducted studies and business investigations for clients as varied as the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio; the Canadian Pacific Railway
; Chicago's Union Stock Yards
and Transit Company; and the Photographers Association of the United States.
World War I
caused a temporary hiatus in his career as an entrepreneur, but not in his work as an analyst and solver of business problems. Drafted into the Army as a private to do personnel work in September 1917, he soon rose to the rank of major and worked with the War Department in Washington, D.C., to reorganize and perfect the business methods of its various bureaus. He left the Army in March 1919, ready to turn his business acumen to the service of bankers, manufacturers, advertising agencies, wholesalers, sales managers, publishers, real estate operators, public service cooperations, and other enterprises. Booz focused on identifying, diagnosing, and recommending solutions to business problems. His client base grew; he expanded his services to include executive recruitment; and he broadened the partnership base of the company so that in 1936, it became Booz, Fry, Allen, & Hamilton, and subsequently, Booz Allen Hamilton and Booz & Company
.
Between the two World Wars, Booz continued to pursue his vision of dedicated service to businesses. In 1940, he responded to a request from the Secretary of the Navy to help the Navy prepare for war, thus beginning what turned out to be Booz Allen's long-term and continuing service to the federal government.
Booz retired partially from the firm in 1946 and died in October 1951. At that time, the company newsletter published a tribute paid to Ed Booz by one of the staff at an annual conference in 1947:
Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. , or more commonly Booz Allen, is an American public consulting firm headquartered in McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, with 80 other offices throughout the United States. Ralph Shrader is its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. The firm was founded by Edwin Booz in...
- which focuses on government contracting - and 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...
, a commercial management-consulting firm.
Born in 1887, in Reading, Pennsylvania
Reading, Pennsylvania
Reading is a city in southeastern Pennsylvania, USA, and seat of Berks County. Reading is the principal city of the Greater Reading Area and had a population of 88,082 as of the 2010 census, making it the fifth most populated city in the state after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown and Erie,...
, to a family of modest means and one of seven sons, Booz worked his way through prep school, college, and graduate school at many and varied kinds of work--tutor, bookkeeper, draftsman, and 'business investigator.' When Booz left the Kellogg School
Kellogg School
Kellogg School may refer to:* Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University* Kellogg School of Science and Technology at The Scripps Research Institute* Kellogg College, Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University...
at Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
in 1914 with a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in psychology, a brother of one of the Nations most prestigious Fraternities, Alpha Delta Phi
Alpha Delta Phi
Alpha Delta Phi is a Greek-letter social college fraternity and the fourth-oldest continuous Greek-letter fraternity in the United States and Canada. Alpha Delta Phi was founded on October 29, 1832 by Samuel Eells at Hamilton College and includes former U.S. Presidents, Chief Justices of the U.S....
, he went into business for himself to perform studies and analyses of businesses.
He conducted studies and business investigations for clients as varied as the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio; 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...
; Chicago's Union Stock Yards
Union Stock Yards
The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meat packing district in Chicago for over a century starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired swampland, and turned it to a centralized processing area...
and Transit Company; and the Photographers Association of the United States.
World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
caused a temporary hiatus in his career as an entrepreneur, but not in his work as an analyst and solver of business problems. Drafted into the Army as a private to do personnel work in September 1917, he soon rose to the rank of major and worked with the War Department in Washington, D.C., to reorganize and perfect the business methods of its various bureaus. He left the Army in March 1919, ready to turn his business acumen to the service of bankers, manufacturers, advertising agencies, wholesalers, sales managers, publishers, real estate operators, public service cooperations, and other enterprises. Booz focused on identifying, diagnosing, and recommending solutions to business problems. His client base grew; he expanded his services to include executive recruitment; and he broadened the partnership base of the company so that in 1936, it became Booz, Fry, Allen, & Hamilton, and subsequently, Booz Allen Hamilton and 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...
.
Between the two World Wars, Booz continued to pursue his vision of dedicated service to businesses. In 1940, he responded to a request from the Secretary of the Navy to help the Navy prepare for war, thus beginning what turned out to be Booz Allen's long-term and continuing service to the federal government.
Booz retired partially from the firm in 1946 and died in October 1951. At that time, the company newsletter published a tribute paid to Ed Booz by one of the staff at an annual conference in 1947:
"I admire his deep sincerity, his high ideals, his uniformity of analysis, his ability to give and to take, his courage, his capacity for absorbing new tools, his burning desire to build soundly, his deep rooted conviction regarding the value of organization, his philosophical grasp of the implication of growth and perpetuation."
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