O'Shea, James

Dangerous company : management consultants and the businesses they save and ruin / James O'Shea and Charles Madigan. - New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1998. - xii, 356 p. ; 20 cm.

"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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Business consultants.
Consultores de negocio.
Asesores de empresas.
Administración de empresas.

HD 69 / O82d 1998

658.46