Talk:Strategy&

Excessive citing of the company website

This article looks to me like an advert, there are excessive comments from the company website, wikipedia is not an advertising agency. Off2riorob (talk) 18:18, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Well, you are the one with no other edits to any other articles, this article used the company sites for excessive detail. Off2riorob (talk) 18:39, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Please reverse all of your copious deletions...this article was quite in line with competitors until you deleted most of it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.118.140.236 (talk) 18:50, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

This comment you left on my talkpage would suggest a degree of association, ip130, "Thanks for allowing me to edit the page. I am a student in Mass doing this for my computer class. I have no affiliation with the company, other than having an uncle who worked there 10 years ago. All edits were truthful in nature. Thank you for interacting with me throughout my edits." Off2riorob (talk) 16:12, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

In terms of my edits to Booz & Company's wiki page, they were for a class assignment I had to carry out that related to wikipedia edits and interactions with editors. I'd like to state clearly that I'm not affiliated with the company, but the idea to edit this article did come to mind because I have an uncle who worked at BAH in Mclean many years ago. When I heard about the schism and figured this page was new, I thought it seemed a good place to carry out my edits. Sorry for the misunderstanding and I will no longer look to edit the article since it caused all this fuss and I'm done with my project anyway. Please leave these comments the way they are because I think they're pretty thorough in explaining what went down. Good luck editing the page from here on out!

Oldest?

Apparently Arthur D. Little is also the oldest management consultancy. Any ideas on how to treat this? 214.4.238.180 (talk) 20:37, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Booz & Co vs. ADL for the oldest Consulting firm still in business

The formulation that Booz & Co is "the oldest Management Consulting firm still in Business" is correct (as it does not claim it was the first - in fact it was the second). The company founded by Dr. Little, that established it’s reputation as Arthur D. Little ceased to exist in 2002. The new ADL is not a continuation of that entity, but rather an entirely new enterprise that purchased the name ADL. The conflict can thus be resolved from my POV. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.203.216.153 (talk) 10:51, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Assuming you are corrent about ADL, Does that mean that Booz will cease the to be the "the oldest Management Consulting firm still in Business" when it is sold to PWC? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.44.8.83 (talk) 16:08, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Following the rebranding, Booz / Strategy& is no longer making this claim.B A Thuriaux (talk) 08:00, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Link to Facebook Page

Does anyone know how to make the logo for Booz & Company on this Wikipedia page display on the associated Facebook page? The body of the page links directly to the Wikipedia article but not the logo. Not sure why this is not working as it works for other companies.

114.76.1.99 (talk) 16:10, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

PWC to "buy" or "merge with"

There seems to be some confusion - the Booz website refers to the recent deal with PWC as a merger, but the FT article referenced in the initial summary begins with "PwC has agreed to buy the independent management consultant Booz & Company in the latest sign that struggling mid-tier firms are being forced to make radical choices to survive." Can someone clarify whether PWC bought Booz or whether this actually a merger?

The following is from http://www.investopedia.com/university/mergers/mergers1.asp I don't know if this is a reliable source.

Distinction between Mergers and Acquisitions Although they are often uttered in the same breath and used as though they were synonymous, the terms merger and acquisition mean slightly different things.

When one company takes over another and clearly established itself as the new owner, the purchase is called an acquisition. From a legal point of view, the target company ceases to exist, the buyer "swallows" the business and the buyer's stock continues to be traded.

In the pure sense of the term, a merger happens when two firms, often of about the same size, agree to go forward as a single new company rather than remain separately owned and operated. This kind of action is more precisely referred to as a "merger of equals." Both companies' stocks are surrendered and new company stock is issued in its place. For example, both Daimler-Benz and Chrysler ceased to exist when the two firms merged, and a new company, DaimlerChrysler, was created.

In practice, however, actual mergers of equals don't happen very often. Usually, one company will buy another and, as part of the deal's terms, simply allow the acquired firm to proclaim that the action is a merger of equals, even if it's technically an acquisition. Being bought out often carries negative connotations, therefore, by describing the deal as a merger, deal makers and top managers try to make the takeover more palatable.

MOS:TM

How is the name of this company pronounced? A move to Strategy And or Strategy (company) may be appropriate per MOS:TM. --BDD (talk) 21:56, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Notable listcruft

I have removed the two "Notable" sections as unsourced violations of WP:NOTDIRECTORY. These lists were added in 2008 when rules were less strict and detailed. But this kind of self-promotional name dropping does not belong in any company article, unless a significant connection between a list entry and the main topic can be established by in-depth coverage in independent sources - and even then this information should be provided as sourced prose, not as list. I believe the deletion should be uncontroversial, but please discuss here if you disagree. GermanJoe (talk) 18:25, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Request edit on original name of Booz Allen Hamilton

I work for Booz Allen's Marketing and Communications team. I noticed a factual error on the page that should be corrected. This article cites Edwin G. Booz, Business Engineering Service as the original founding name of the company in 1914 but this name wasn't in use until 1919. The original name was The Business Research Service.

If you approve the edit, the first sentence should read: Strategy& is a global strategy consulting firm originally established in the United States, in 1914, as The Business Research Service (eventually becoming Booz & Company) and is now a subsidiary of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which acquired the former Booz & Company on April 4, 2014. Kemples (talk) 20:43, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

References

Reply 12-SEP-2018

 Edit request implemented   spintendo  04:37, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

History

Much of the content in this article's History section seems to be a repeat of the Booz Allen Hamilton page, which seems generally more organized and comprehensive. Perhaps a redirect can be added to this page, and the pre-2008 information removed in favor of Strategy& history (that is, more about Booz & Company and post-acquisition events) Any thoughts? Pereneph (talk) 01:02, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Marketing

none of this is true" "The firm coined the terms and developed the concepts of supply chain, supply chain management, product life cycle, the PERT Chart and organizational DNA." 82.6.111.136 (talk) 23:02, 25 May 2023 (UTC)