The first management consulting firm was Arthur D. Little, founded in 1886 by the MIT professor of the same name
The first pure management and strategy consulting company was McKinsey & Company. McKinsey was founded in Chicago during 1926 by James O. McKinsey, a professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Andrew T. Kearney, an original McKinsey partner, broke off and started A.T. Kearney in 1937.
Why management consulting grew first in the USA is because of deep cultural factors: it was accepted there, (contrary to say, Europe), that management and boards alike might not be competent in all circumstances; therefore, buying external competency was seen as a normal way to solve a business problem
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