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Dangerous company : management consultants and the businesses they save and ruin / James O'Shea and Charles Madigan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1998.Description: xii, 356 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 081292634X
  • 9780812926347
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.46
LOC classification:
  • HD 69 O82d 1998
Contents:
The price of advice : what does a half-billion dollars of consulting buy? -- The few, the proud, the totally insane : how consultants ran amok at Figgie International -- The jobs elimination festival : how Andersen Consulting moved into the big leagues -- Taming "the monster of the midway" : the rise, fall, and rise again of Sears -- "A medicine man in a room full of funeral directors" : how Boston Consulting Group packages and peddles ideas -- Trying to make gold from lead : Gemini and the transformation fad -- Too close for comfort : inside the secret, influential world of Bain & Co. -- The gold boys' network : power and glory and McKimsey -- Keeping dangerous company : caveat emptor.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HD 69 O82d 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000080048

"Updated with a new preface"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-332) and index.

The price of advice : what does a half-billion dollars of consulting buy? -- The few, the proud, the totally insane : how consultants ran amok at Figgie International -- The jobs elimination festival : how Andersen Consulting moved into the big leagues -- Taming "the monster of the midway" : the rise, fall, and rise again of Sears -- "A medicine man in a room full of funeral directors" : how Boston Consulting Group packages and peddles ideas -- Trying to make gold from lead : Gemini and the transformation fad -- Too close for comfort : inside the secret, influential world of Bain & Co. -- The gold boys' network : power and glory and McKimsey -- Keeping dangerous company : caveat emptor.

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