Title: McKinsey's Marvin Bower
Description: The complete, untold story of McKinsey & Co.'s founding fatherThis is the authoritative and insightful account of Marvin Bower, who helped found McKinsey & Co. in 1939 and served as managing director of the firm from 1950 to 1967, and of how Bower, an attorney, took a concept known as industrial engineering and transformed it into what we now know as management consulting. As Dick Cavanagh, now CEO of the Conference Board, said, Bower "didn't just preach values, he practiced them. . . . He was a teacher as well as a leader."Elizabeth Haas Edersheim (Pelham Manor, NY) founded New York Consultin.
Subjects: Leadership, Management, Business consultants, McKinsey and Company, Industrial management
People: Marvin Bower (1903-)