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Management and Consulting Industry

(NAICS 541611 / SIC 8742)

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Online Resources (available through USC Marshall network)

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Lexis/Nexis Academic, General Business File ASAP and ABI/Inform through Proquest will find full-text articles from core business publications on the management consulting industry.

Business & Company Resource Center: Industry search SIC 8742 to find industry overviews, market share, rankings, and company profiles.

IBISWorld: search NAICS 54161 to find current US industry reports on the management consulting industry; keyword search "management" or "consulting" to find related reports.

Hoovers: search for management consulting company profiles.

Mint Global: search the Companies module for management consulting company profiles; search the Market Research module for industry reports on "management" or "consulting."

MarketResearchAcademic.com: keyword search "management consulting" to retrieve global market research reports.

Conference Board: "Topic" search for reports on business management issues and functional knowledge.

Global Market Information Database: keyword search "management consulting" to find global market profiles on management consulting services.

Associations

Academy of Management Online
A leading professional association for management research and education in the U.S.

Association of Management Consulting Firms

Association of Internal Management Consultants

INFORMS Online
From the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, a merger of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) and The Institute of Management Science (TIMS).

Institute of Management Consultants
Includes a searchable directory of management consultants by client industry and consulting specialty.

American Management Association
A global, member-based association which provides education on management development skills.

The Society for Organizational Learning
From the MIT Organizational Learning Network, includes case reports and some full-text articles.

International Council of Managment Consulting Institutes

Marshall Consulting & Strategy Club
USC Marshall School of Business' student club

Executive Resources

CEO Express
A comprehensive guide to useful sites for executives.

World Clock International Time Zones
Calibrate your clock and determine the current time anywhere in the world.

Books in Crocker Business Library

For additional books on "consulting" and "management" located in all USC libraries, search HOMER. Full-text books online are available in eBrary (USC network connection required).

Consultancy:

  • Business Consulting: a guide to how it works and how to make it work / The Economist (Business Reference HD69 .C6T64 2005)
  • Consultants Directory / Dun & Bradstreet (Business Reference HD69 .C8D86)
  • Consultants & Consulting Organizations Directory (Reference HD69 .C6 W37)

Management:

  • AMA Management Handbook / AMACOM (Business Reference HD31 .A418 1994)
  • Handbook of Management (Reference HD31 .G684 1992)
  • Gower Handbook of Management Development (Reference HD38.2 H36 1991)
  • Multicultural Management 2000 (Reference HD62.4 E427 1998)
  • 50 Key Figures in Management (Reference HD31 .W585 2003)
  • Resumes for Business Management Careers (Reference HF5383 .V46 1991)

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General Business Magazines (hard copies available in Crocker Business Library)

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Management and Consulting Journals

CEO Refresher

Consulting Magazine (lists firm rankings and top consultants)

Consulting Times (monthly)

Consulting to Management (quarterly)

Consultants News (monthly; Business Library front desk)

IOMA Publications
Magazines, reports and e-alerts from the Institute of Management & Administration.

McKinsey Quarterly (some content free; hard copies available in Business Library)

Management Consultant International

Management Consulting News (monthly)

Prism (registration required to access most content)
From Arthur D. Little, Global Management Consultant

MIT Sloan Management Review

Strategy + Business
From Booz-Allen & Hamilton

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Business Process Reengineering

Business Process Reengineering & Innovation

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Electronic Commerce

Electronic Commerce & Electronic Markets

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Information Technology

The Gartner Group
USC subscribes to reports published by the Gartner Group (use your USC UNIX webmail password to login).

Forrester
USC subscribes to reports published by this technology research company.

Intranets, Extranet & Portals

Global IT Services Report
Published by Kennedy Information

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Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital

Knowledge Management & Organizational Learning

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Quality Resources

American Productivity & Quality Center
Focuses on benchmarking, knowledge management, measurement, customer satisfaction, productivity and quality. Publishes a newsletter, Knowledge Management in Practice.

American Society for Quality
Professional association advancing quality in the workplace and business community.

QFD Institute
Supports education and research for Quality Function Deployment.

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Consulting Firms

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Career Information

The Origins of Modern Management Consulting: a 1995 Business & Economic History article by Christopher McKenna

Extracting Value from Consultants (book chapter on 'History of Consulting')

Management Consulting Services:  U.S. Producer Price Index 2007

Management Analysts: a Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook guide

Careers in Consulting: sponsored by Careers-In-Business.com

Vault's Top 50 Consulting Firms, 2008: three lists ranking firms by prestige, quality of life, and diversity

Top-Consultant.com: a specialist career website with global connections

Management Consultant Salary Survey Report: sponsored by PayScale

Ace Your Case: a WetFeet Insider Guide for interviewing within the management consulting industry 

Case Interviewing Preparation Guidelines from Major Consulting Firms:


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Management Gurus/Leaders

The Top 50 Business Gurus: published by Accenture's Outlook Journal (January 2003)
The Thinkers 50: 2005 global ranking of business leaders compiled by SunTop Media
The Thinkers 50 / by Ciaran Parker (Business Reference HC29 .P37 2006)
John Adair: the UK's premiere thought leader on management and leadership
Nick Craig/Authentic Leadership Institute: author of Finding Your True North
Peter Drucker's The Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University: senior executive adviser on management and leadership
David Maister: thought leader on management of professional service firms
Henry Mintzberg: leadership and management issue expert
Tom Peters: a management consulting leadership guru
Andrew Sobel: a leading management advisor
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