McKinsey's Marvin Bower : Vision, Leadership, and the Creation of Management Consulting

by Haas Edersheim, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780471755821
• ISBN10: 0471755826
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-24
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

-Thomas H. Lee, founder, Chairman, and President, Thomas H. Lee Partners L.P.

Author Biography

<b>Elizabeth Haas Edersheim</b> spent over a year working with Marvin Bower on this book, completing the manuscript shortly before his death. Edersheim holds a PhD from MIT and worked at Mckinsey from 1979 to 1988.&#160; She was the first women partner in the Cleveland office and was a global leader of the firm's operations and manufacturing practices. After leaving McKinsey, Dr. Haas Edersheim founded New York Consulting Partners, Inc., and was the managing director for thirteen years. She has written numerous articles for publications including the New York Times, the Harvard Business Review, and the Wall Str5eet Journal. She is currently a strategic advisor to a number of companies and continues to write in the business arena.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD	ix
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xi
PART I Translating a Vision into Reality	1	(122)
CHAPTER 1 Marvin Bower	1	(14)
CHAPTER 2 The Vision	15	(9)
CHAPTER 3 The Profession and the Institution	24	(44)
CHAPTER 4 Defining Moments of Leadership and Influence	68	(55)
PART II A Leader's Leader	123	(114)
CHAPTER 5 The Bower Reach	125	(12)
CHAPTER 6 Inspiring Organizational Courage	137	(54)
CHAPTER 7 Educating a Generation of Leaders	191	(46)
AUTHOR'S NOTE	237	(6)
APPENDIX A Timeline	243	(10)
APPENDIX B Brief Biography	253	(4)
APPENDIX C McKinsey & Co. Partners' Conference, 1964	257	(18)
NOTES	275	(14)
LIST OF INTERVIEWEES	289	(6)
INDEX	295