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PERT is the baby of the world's largest (1958 billings: $11 million), most prestigious management consultant firm, Chicago's Booz, Allen & Hamilton. When the Navy realized that the thousands of steps involved in development of the Polaris called for an overall plan to spot trouble before it happened, it called...
...Questions. Behind the experts that devised PERT lies 45 years of Booz, Allen & Hamilton experience in counseling more than 2,000 U.S. firms in management problems-getting the right outside man to become president of a slipping company, improving the flow of executive information, revising an outdated product line, amicably easing out executive deadwood. The firm was founded by the late Edwin Booz, a Reading (Pa.) ironmonger's son who studied economics and applied psychology at Northwestern University while serving as an Evanston night cop. At the time, efficiency experts were entranced with time-motion studies...
...having moved up to become boss of Republic's wiremaking division at $12,000 a year, he turned down an offer of twice that and accepted the bid that really appealed to his talents: a job with Manhattan's top-drawer management consulting firm of Booz-Allen & Hamilton. Burns bagged a partnership within a year (still a company record) at age 34, became a corporate confessor for 30 of the nation's 100 top companies - including RCA. He dissected every department, hopped in between the balance sheets, shook up managements. Says he : "Consulting is a science because...
Consultant Burns started out in metallurgical work after leaving Northeastern University, went on for master's and doctor's degrees in metallurgy at Harvard (where he also taught), joined Manhattan's Booz. Allen in 1941. He has helped work out policy and organization programs for more than 30 of the 100 largest U.S. corporations, supervised basic reorganization programs for the U.S. Navy and the Veterans Administration...
...lure Burns away from Booz, Allen, RCA gave him a ten-year contract providing for a $150,000 salary, with in creases to $200,000 over the next five years (plus an option on RCA stock). But it was not money that drew Burns to RCA. Says he: "I am attracted by the challenge." At RCA, new President Burns will find no shortage of challenges...