Press Releases
| 4-18-13 Booz & Company Chief Executive Study Finds Steep Rise in Planned CEO Turnovers as Companies Take Active Control of Their CEO Succession Planning Shanghai, 18 April 2013—Leading global management consulting firm Booz & Company today announced the results of this year’s Chief Executive Study, finding the highest share ever of planned CEO successions. read more > |
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| 4-11-13 Global Information Technology Report highlights lack of progress in bridging the new digital divide Shanghai, 11 April 2013—Despite efforts in the past decade to improve information and communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure in developing economies, there remains a new digital divide in how countries harness ICT to deliver competitiveness and well-being, according to the 12th edition of The Global Information Technology Report, released today by the World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Booz & Company. Booz & Company contributed a chapter entitled “Digitization for Economic Growth and Job Creation”. read more > |
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| 4-03-13 Booz & Company Closes Acquisition of Management Engineers: Combined Firm Offers Clients Unrivaled Operations Expertise and Industry Experience Shanghai April 3, 2013—Global management consultancy Booz & Company announced today the closing of its acquisition of international consulting firm Management Engineers. This esteemed consultancy will bring 17 partners and 145 staff to Booz & Company and a highly complementary market position and functional heritage—particularly in auto/industrials and operations consulting in Germany, but also in China, the UK, and the US. The transaction was announced in February, subject to the approval of Booz & Company’s partners. read more > |
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| 2-21-13 Booz & Company to Acquire Management Engineers Combination Enhances Global Presence and Functional Expertiseread more > |
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| 11-15-12 Empowering the Third Billion: Utilizing Women As Key Drivers of Economic Growth With a staggering 1 billion women around the world set to enter the global economy in the coming decade, Booz & Company provide an analytical look into this complex group’s potential and the common challenges that it faces. There is compelling evidence that women can be powerful drivers of economic growth. For example, our estimates, which are conservative, indicate that if female employment rates were to match male rates in the United States, it would boost overall GDP by 5 percent. In Japan, such initiatives could increase GDP by 9 percent. In developing economies, the effect is even more pronounced.read more > |
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| 10-31-12 R&D Spending Returns to Pre-Recession Levels, Finds Booz & Company Global Innovation 1000 Study For the first time, PetroChina (70) has entered the top 100 of the global innovation 1000 list. It is also the only Chinese company which ranked top 100 of this survey / R&D spending in 2011 increased 9.6 percent to US$603 billion—an all-time high / Amazon joins the Top 10 “Most Innovative” Companies, bumping out Facebookread more > |
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| 7-03-12 The Global Innovation Index 2012: Switzerland Retains First-Place Position in Innovation Performance New York, NY, July 3, 2012 — For the second year running, Switzerland, Sweden, and Singapore lead in overall innovation performance according to the Global Innovation Index 2012 (GII): Stronger Innovation Linkages for Global Growth, published by INSEAD, the leading international business school, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialized agency of the United Nations. read more > |
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| 6-13-12 Chinese Consumer Market Maturing with an Increasing Focus on Product Quality, Combined with an Exponential Growth of Consumer Choice AmCham Shanghai/Booz & Company survey finds multinational and Chinese companies converging on key market segments—competition intensifyingread more > |
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| 6-07-12 2012 China Innovation Survey: Innovation – China’s Next Advantage? Chinese companies are becoming serious innovative competitorsread more > |
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| 4-16-12 Sweden Takes 1st Place in Global Information Technology Report 2012; Singapore is Runner-Up China (No. 51) leads the BRICS nations; Taiwan and Hong Kong rank 11th and 13thread more > |
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| 2-22-12 Mergers & Acquisitions Built Around Companies' Distinctive Strengths Significantly Outperform Other Deals, Booz & Company Study Finds New York, NY, February 22, 2012 — Capabilities-driven transactions generated 12 percentage points of annual shareholder return above other deals read more > |
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| 2-12-12 Booz & Company Elects Cesare Mainardi as Next CEO New York, NY, February 12, 2012 — Booz & Company, a leading global management consulting firm, today announced that its board of directors has elected Cesare Mainardi to be the firm’s next chief executive officer. read more > |