Edwin Booz

Edwin Booz (born September 2, 1888 in Reading , Pennsylvania , † October 14, 1951 in Evanston , Illinois ) was an American entrepreneur . He founded Booz & Company and Booz Allen Hamilton .

Life

Booz, fifth of seven sons, grew up in a modest economic situation. He studied at the renowned Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois . In 1914 he completed a BA in Economics and an MA in Psychology and founded a joint venture in 1915 , which from 1917 on was called the Business Research & Development Company in Chicago. During the First World War , Edwin Booz was drafted into the military and worked there for one of his former professors to reorganize the bureaucratic apparatus in the war department.

After he left the Army in March 1919, his company was renamed Edwin Booz Surveys in 1924 . In 1925, the Northwestern graduate George A. Fry was hired, in 1929 James L. Allen , who also graduated from this university . Carl Hamilton followed in 1935 , so that the company could be renamed Booz, Fry, Allen & Hamilton in 1936 . The consulting firm expanded and built a larger client base in the 1930s. In the spring of 1940 the Navy approached Booz, Fry, Allen & Hamilton to prepare their organizational structures for the war . Booz, Fry, Allen & Hamilton worked almost exclusively for the military in the 1940s. In 1946, Ed Booz largely withdrew from his company. The entrepreneur died on October 14, 1951 in Evanston.

literature

• Harry Igor Ansoff : Corporate Strategy . Penguin Books, London 1988, ISBN 0-14-009112-2 (reprint of the New York 1965 edition).
• James Bamford : NSA ("Body of Secrets"). Goldmann, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-442-15151-6 .
• J. Berry: Transition at Booz, Allen & Hamilton . In: Journal of Management Consulting . May 1997, pp. 33-35.
• Jim Bowman: Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Seventy years of client Services 1914-1984 . BAH Edition, New York 1984.
• Samuel C. Johnson, Catherine Jones: How to Organize for New Products . In: Harvard Business Review , Vol. 35, No. 3, 1957, pp. 49-62.
• Matthias Kipping, Catherine Sauviat: Global Management Consultancies. Their Evolution and Structure . University of Reading, Department of Economics 1996 (Discussion Papers in International Investment and Business Studies, Series B; Vol. 9, Issue 221).
• Christel Niedereichholz, Joachim Niedereichholz: Consulting Insight . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-57975-8 .