James L. Allen
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James L. Allen was one of the founders of management consultancies Booz Allen Hamilton
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...

 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...

.

Mr. Allen was born on November 21, 1904, on a farm in Somerset, Kentucky
Kentucky
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. He spent his boyhood in Somerset, was educated in public schools, and graduated from Somerset High School in 1921.

He attended business college and in 1922 moved to Chicago
Chicago
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 where he worked at several jobs and attended night school. Mr. Allen graduated from 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 1929 with a B.S. degree in Economics
Economics
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 from the Kellogg School of Management
Kellogg School of Management
The Kellogg School of Management is the business school of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, downtown Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida. Kellogg offers full-time, part-time, and executive programs, as well as partnering programs with schools in China, India, Hong Kong, Israel,...

. Kellog's [James L. Allen Center] for executive education is named for him.

Mr. Allen joined Edwin G. Booz
Edwin G. Booz
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....

 Surveys in 1929 and was named a partner
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 in 1936. Subsequently, the firm's name was changed to Booz Allen Hamilton and later Booz & Company. Mr. Allen provided the leadership of the firm from 1944 to 1970. This was a time of rapid growth of partners, staff, and geographic locations as well as a period of diversification in services. He headed the firm as Chairman of the Executive Committee
Executive Committee
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 and later, after incorporation, as Chairman of the Board
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. In 1970, he was named Honorary Chairman. He died in 1992.

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