Oliver Wyman

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Oliver Wyman

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legal form Group company
founding 1984
Seat New York City , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management Scott McDonald (CEO)
Number of employees   5000 employees (2019)
sales   $ 2.05 billion (2018)
Branch Business consulting
Website http://www.oliverwyman.de

http://www.oliverwyman.ch

Oliver Wyman is an international strategy consultancy. Together with its sister companies Lippincott , Celent and NERA Economic Consulting, it belongs to the Oliver Wyman Group and is a 100% subsidiary of the Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC). As Chief Executive Officer of the Oliver Wyman Group, Scott McDonald has had global leadership responsibility for all industry practices and horizontal areas of expertise at Oliver Wyman as well as for NERA and Lippincott since 2012.

The entire Oliver Wyman Group generated sales of $ 2.05 billion in 2018. Oliver Wyman has over 60 offices with more than 5,000 employees. It is represented in German-speaking countries with offices in Berlin , Frankfurt am Main , Munich , Hamburg , Zurich and Düsseldorf .

Oliver Wyman is one of the world's best strategy consulting firms in terms of prestige, growth, employee satisfaction, sales per consultant and interview difficulty

history

Oliver Wyman was created in 2007 from the merger of the management consultancies Mercer Oliver Wyman, Mercer Management Consulting and Mercer Delta, which are already part of the MMC group. All three companies were independent when they were founded and were later bought up by MMC. The later Mercer Management Consulting was founded in 1970 as Temple, Barker & Sloane, after several acquisitions and a merger with Strategic Planning Associates the name was changed. In 1993 the company was bought by MMC.

  • The Delta Consulting Group was founded in 1980 and bought out by MMC in 2000.
  • Mercer Oliver Wyman was founded in 1984 as Oliver, Wyman & Company. After several acquisitions, MMC bought it in 2003 and added the Mercer to the name .

The following companies have merged into today's Oliver Wyman:

  • Duncan C. Fraser & Co (1986)
  • Future Cost Analysts (1986)
  • Temple, Barker & Sloane (1987)
  • Strategic Planning Associates (1990)
  • Management Consulting Munich GmbH (1993)
  • Corporate Decisions, Inc (1997)
  • Higginson & Partners (1998)
  • Dr. Seebauer & Partner GmbH (1998)
  • St. Gallen Consulting Group (2000)
  • Análisis y Desarrollo de Proyectos (2000)
  • Delta Consulting Group (2000)
  • Intervaluenet (2002)
  • Informed Sources Holdings Ltd. (2002)
  • Johnston Smith International, Inc. (2002)
  • Change Management Consultants (2002)
  • Oliver, Wyman & Company (2003)
  • crm Concord, p. a. (2004)
  • CDR International, LLC (2004)
  • MultiModal Applied Systems (2006)
  • DiamondCluster International (2006, activities in North America remain independent)
  • Harbor Consulting (2008)
  • Corven (2013)
  • OC&C Boston (2014)
  • OC&C Greater China (2015)
  • TeamSAI (2015)
  • LShift (2017)
  • Draw (2018)

Recruiting

The company is known to pose great challenges for entry, and almost exclusively recruits the best at elite universities. Glassdoor rated the company as the third heaviest interview in the world.

A 1989 recruitment flyer published in The Tech , MIT's campus newspaper

consultation

Oliver Wyman advises clients from the following sectors:

  • automobile
  • Aviation, Space & Defense
  • Telecommunications, Media & Technology
  • energy
  • Financial services
  • Health & Life Science
  • Industry
  • Retail & Consumer Goods
  • transport

Oliver Wyman advises on the following topics:

  • Actuarial
  • Organizational Effectiveness
  • Corporate Finance & Restructuring
  • Risk management
  • Leadership Development
  • marketing & Distribution
  • Digital, Technology & Analytics
  • strategy

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Wyman website "About us"
  2. ↑ https://irnews.mmc.com/static-files/d46f4b10-96ea-4aa3-b42f-1a70cf93466c
  3. ↑ http://www.oliverwyman.com/ow/pdf_files/OW_EN_FS_PRESS_2008_OW_Aquires_Celent.pdf
  4. ↑ MMC Investor Report. In: deutschland.marsh.com.
  5. ↑ Oliver Wyman - About us website. In: deutschland.marsh.com. Retrieved February 16, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Oliver Wyman website "Locations" ( memento of the original from April 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oliverwyman.de
  7. ↑ The 9 most prestigious consulting firms in the world ( en )
  8. ↑ The Top 50 Consulting Firms In 2019 By Revenue, Prestige, Growth & Employee Satisfaction ( en )
  9. ↑ Top 25 World Most Difficult Companies To Interview; Consulting Firms Lead The Way ( en )
  10. ↑ http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/artikel/0,2828,482022,00.html
  11. ↑ http://www.oliverwyman.de/who-we-are/history.html Oliver Wyman website "History"
  12. ↑ http://www.oliverwyman.com/ow/170.htm
  13. ↑ http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/artikel/0,2828,527259,00.html
  14. ↑ a b c d Oliver Wyman: A history of forward thinking and innovation. Retrieved January 13, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Oliver Wyman: Oliver Wyman is strengthening itself with the software specialist LShift. Retrieved February 16, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Oliver Wyman: Oliver Wyman strengthens digital competence with the takeover of Draw. Retrieved February 16, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Andrea Carter: Target Schools For MBB Consulting Firms ( en-US ) May 25, 2018.
  18. ↑ What are the 'Target' Universities for Consultancy firms? .
  19. ↑ Kelly Eggers: The 25 Toughest Companies for Interviews (en-US) . In: Wall Street Journal , July 31, 2012. 

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