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...unauthorised biography of McKinsey, The Firm, business journalist Duff McDonald writes that when Harvard president Derek Bok proposed jettisoning case study methods in 1979, McKinsey chief executive Marvin Bower...
...However, it was his successor, Marvin Bower, who is considered the father of modern management consulting thanks to his principled insistence on impeccable professional standards in substance, ethics and...
...McKinsey, the consulting group, is backing the award for the first time in 2014, replacing Goldman Sachs, which had sponsored the prize since 2005....
...“If CEOs want to duck the succession issue they find ways of doing it,” says Joseph Bower, a professor at Harvard Business School and author of The CEO Within....
...James Bowers also joins, becoming responsible for UK and institutional product, having formerly held a similar role at Aviva Investors....
...The writer is Global MD for Accenture Strategy Consulting practice...
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