Edwin G. Booz founded the management consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. Born in 1887, in Reading, Pennsylvania, to a family of modest means and one of seven sons, Booz worked his way through prep school, college, and graduate school at many and varied kinds of work--tutor, bookkeeper, draftsman, and 'business investigator.' When Booz left the Kellogg School at Northwestern University in 1914 with a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in psychology, … Wikipedia
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