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Christopher D. McKenna The World's Newest Profession Management Consulting In\nAuthor: Christopher D. McKenna\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2006\nFormat: Book\nGenre: History / United States / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) / Modern / 20th Century / Business & Economics\nLanguage: English\nEdition: Illustrated\nPages: 394\nISBN: 9780521810395\nISBN-10: 0521810396\nSynopsis: In The World's Newest Profession, Christopher McKenna offers a history of management consulting in the twentieth century. While management consulting may not yet be a recognized profession, the leading consulting firms have been advising and reshaping the largest organizations in the world since the 1920s. This groundbreaking study details how the elite consulting firms, including McKinsey and Booz Allen, expanded after U.S. regulatory changes during the 1930s, how they changed giant corporations, nonprofits, and the state during the 1950s, and why consultants became .