12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Pound 334 / 335
Where Did All Those Management Consultants Come From?
A Short History of the World's Newest Profession
The program will feature a presentation by Dr. Christopher McKenna, Reader in Business History and Strategy at the Clifford Chance Centre for the Management of Professional Service Firms at Oxford University's Saïd Business School. Dr. McKenna will discuss his award winning book on the growth of the elite management consulting firms, The World's Newest Profession, which received the 2004-06 Newcomen-Harvard Book Award by the Business History Review, was awarded the 2007 Hagley Prize by the Business History Conference, and was named one of the best books of the year by the Financial Times.
Lunch will be provided; Please RSVP to Nicola Seaholm.
Based at Oxford University's Saïd Business School, the Clifford Chance Centre is a hub for academic research into the management of professional service firms. Its members work closely with top practitioners to explore the key challenges confronting the professional services sector, conduct research into the internal and external dynamics of professional service firms, and provide a program of innovative teaching, based on research and with the collaboration of practitioners. The Centre brings together theory and practice in order to:
- Shape the field of professional service firms research and build a network for academic activity in this field.
- Provide managers of top professional service firms with intellectually rigorous and empirically-based insights into the challenges they face.
- Provide policy makers with cross-disciplinary perspectives on regulation of the professions, free from professional bias.
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