Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.

Key Facts

• One of the proud, old firms of the consulting industry.
• Strong reputation in strategy, operations, and information technology.
• Expects to hire more than 10,000 people in Virginia for homeland security–related jobs over the next five years.
• Named to Fortune’s 2007 “100 Best Companies to Work For” for the third consecutive year, BusinessWeek’s 2006 inaugural list of “Best Places to Launch a Career,” and as number one on Training magazine’s 2006 “Top 100” list.

Key Financial Facts
2006 revenue: $4,100 million
1-yr. growth rate: 36.7 percent

Personnel Highlights
Number of employees: 19,000
1-yr. growth rate: 11.8 percent

Company Overview
Founded in 1914, Booz Allen Hamilton is one of the oldest and most respected firms in the consulting industry. With 110 offices around the globe, it’s a major force domestically and internationally. The firm comprises two business units: the commercial sector and the government sector. The commercial unit traditionally caters to Fortune 500 corporations, competing with strategy consulting firms such as McKinsey and Bain, and the government sector works with public sector organizations, governments, and infrastructure around the world. Booz Allen’s public sector business—which employs nearly 13,000—is thriving, so much so that it has enabled the company to expand its commercial offerings.

Booz Allen calls itself a “global strategy and consulting firm” and lists many areas of expertise among its service offerings; primary among them: strategy, organizational change management, operations, IT, corporate finance, mergers and restructuring, systems engineering, and public sector effectiveness. And it offers its commercial sector services in a broad range of industries, from high tech to finance to consumer products, chemicals, and health care. The U.S. government is one of the firm’s largest clients.