Top 50 Management and Strategy Consulting Firms

SZU — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:11:28 +0000

The 2009 prestige rankings of the top management and strategy consulting firms have arrived! This year’s survey is based on surveys of more than 4,000 consultants.

Rankings methodology:For the 2008 Vault consulting survey, we selected a list of top consulting firms to include. These consulting firms were chosen because of their prominence in the consulting industry and their interest to consulting job seekers. This year, over 4,000 consultants responded to our survey.
The Vault survey was distributed to the firms on Vault’s list in spring 2008. In some cases, Vault contacted practicing consultants directly. Survey respondents were asked to rate each consulting firm on the survey on a scale of 1 to 10 based on prestige, with 10 being the most prestigious. Consultants were unable to rate their own firm, and they were asked to rate only those firms with which they were familiar.

Vault collected the survey results and averaged the score for each firm. The firms were then ranked, with the highest score being No. 1, down to No. 50.

We also asked survey respondents to give their perceptions of other consulting firms besides their own. A selection of those comments is featured on each firm profile as The Buzz.

Remember that Vault’s top-50 strategy consulting firms are chosen by practicing consultants at top consulting firms. Vault does not choose or influence the rankings. The rankings measure perceived prestige (as determined by consulting professionals) and not revenue, size or lifestyle.

2009 RANK	FIRM	SCORE	2008 RANK	HEADQUARTERS/ LARGEST OFFICE
1	McKinsey & Company	8.430	1	New York, NY
2	The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.	8.089	2	Boston, MA
3	Bain & Company	7.966	3	Boston, MA
4	Booz & Company	6.535	4	New York, NY
5	Monitor Group	6.296	5	Cambridge, MA
6	Mercer LLC	6.160	9	New York, NY
7	Deloitte	5.844	8	New York, NY
8	Oliver Wyman	5.755	6	New York, NY
9	PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP	5.572	NR	New York, NY
10	L.E.K. Consulting	5.426	13	Boston, MA London
11	Ernst & Young LLP	5.388	NR	New York, NY London
12	A.T. Kearney	5.373	15	Chicago, IL
13	IBM Global Business Services	5.352	11	Armonk, NY
14	Accenture	5.314	14	New York, NY
15	The Parthenon Group	5.306	10	Boston, MA
16	KPMG LLP	5.246	NR	New York, NY
17	Katzenbach Partners LLC	5.146	16	New York, NY
18	Towers Perrin	4.848	18	Stamford, CT
19	Capgemini	4.752	22	New York, NY Paris
20	Gartner, Inc.	4.728	12	Stamford, CT
21	Roland Berger Strategy Consultants	4.684	20	New York, NY Munich
22	ZS Associates	4.645	24	Evanston, IL
23	Cambridge Associates LLC	4.588	21	Boston, MA
24	Hewitt Associates	4.541	23	Lincolnshire, IL
25	NERA Economic Consulting	4.540	27	White Plains, NY
26	Navigant Consulting, Inc.	4.539	29	Chicago, IL
27	AlixPartners, LLP	4.457	26	Southfield, MI
28	BearingPoint, Inc.	4.433	28	McLean, VA
29	Watson Wyatt Worldwide	4.355	25	Arlington, VA
30	Kurt Salmon Associates	4.276	36	Atlanta, GA
31	CRA International, Inc.	4.275	30	Boston, MA
32	Huron Consulting Group	4.261	39	Chicago, IL
33	Arthur D. Little	4.186	40	Boston, MA Paris
34	Diamond Inc.	4.149	45	Chicago, IL
35	PRTM	4.131	33	Mountain View, CA Waltham, MA
36	Gallup Consulting	4.055	31	Washington, DC
37	The Advisory Board Company	4.020	38	Washington, DC
38	FTI Consulting, Inc.	3.925	46	Baltimore, MD
39	First Manhattan Consulting Group	3.859	42	New York, NY
40	Corporate Executive Board	3.844	41	Washington, DC
41	Cornerstone Research	3.838	37	New York, NY San Francisco, CA
42	Mitchell Madison Group LLC	3.790	NR	New York, NY
43	LECG	3.782	35	Emeryville, CA
44	Alvarez & Marsal	3.758	43	New York, NY
45	Mars & Co	3.737	48	Greenwich, CT
46	Aon Consulting Worldwide	3.624	49	Chicago, IL
47	Analysis Group, Inc.	3.519	47	Boston, MA
48	Archstone Consulting	3.512	NR	Stamford, CT
49	Hay Group	3.415	44	Philadelphia, PA
50	IMS Health Incorporated	3.370	NR	Norwalk, CT

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