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Arthur D. Little

Arthur D. Little

Type Private Company

Industry Management consulting

Founded 1886 (formally incorporated as ADL in 1909)

Headquarters 35 offices in 20 countries

Key people Ignacio Garcia Alves, Global CEO

Products Management consulting services

Employees 1,000 [2008 data][1]

Website [www.adl.com www.adl.com]

Arthur D. Little is an international management consulting firm originally headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts,United States, and formally incorporated by that name in 1909[2] by Arthur Dehon Little, an MIT chemist who haddiscovered acetate. Arthur D. Little pioneered the concept of contracted professional services. The company playedkey roles in the development of business strategy, operations research, the word processor, the first syntheticpenicillin, LexisNexis, and NASDAQ. Today the company is a multi-national management consulting firm.

History

The Arthur D. Little Inc. building at 30 MemorialDrive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near MIT, which

opened in 1917. (photo 2009)

The roots of the company were started in 1886 by Arthur DehonLittle, an MIT chemist, and co-worker Roger B. Griffin (RussellB. Griffin), another chemist and a graduate of the University ofVermont who had met when they both worked for RichmondPaper Company. Their new company, Little & Grifffin, waslocated in Boston where MIT was also located. Griffin and Littleprepared a manuscript for The Chemistry of Paper-making[3]

which was for many years an authoritative text in the area. Thebook had not been entirely finished when Griffin was killed in alaboratory accident in 1893.[2]

Little, who had studied Chemistry at MIT, collaborated with MITand William Hultz Walker of the MIT Chemistry department,forming a partnership, Little & Walker, which lasted from 1900 to 1905, while both MIT and Little's company werestill located in Boston.[2] The partnership dissolved in 1905 when Walker dedicated his full time to being in chargeof the new Research Laboratory of Applied Chemistry at MIT.[2]

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Entrance to 30 MemorialDrive ADL building (photo

2009)

Little continued on his own and formally incorporated the company, Arthur D. Little(ADL), in 1909.[2] He conducted analytical studies, the precursor of the consultingstudies for which the firm would later become famous. He also taught papermaking atMIT from 1893 to 1916.[4]

In 1916 ADL was commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway to do a survey ofCanada's natural resources.[5] In 1917, the company moved to a building of its own, theArthur D. Little Inc., Building, at 30 Memorial Drive on the Charles River next to thecampus of MIT which had moved to Cambridge from Boston in 1916.[2][6] In November1953, ADL opened a forty acre site for their Acorn Park labs in West Cambridge,Massachusetts, near Arlington, Massachusetts, which is quite a distance from MIT.[6]

In 1981, ADL produced the European Commission's first white paper on telecommunications deregulation, havingcompleted the first worldwide telecommunications database on phones installed, markets, technical trends, servicesand regulatory information.[5] It also helped privatize British Rail, generally regarded as one of the most complexprivatization exercises in the world.By 2001, Arthur D. Little had reached its peak. But, a new management team had badly mismanaged the company'score business, had engaged in manipulation of the Memorial Drive Trust, and attempted a sale of the Technologyand Product Development business. The ADL Board of Trustees replaced this management team, but the damagehad already been done, and Arthur D. Little had to file chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2002 before being boughtby Cerberus Capital Management [7]

At an auction in 2002, Paris-based Altran Technologies bought the Arthur D. Little brand name and financed amanagement buyout of the non-US offices.In 2006 Richard Clarke, the CEO (who led Arthur D. Little following purchase by Altran) stepped down andMichael Träm was appointed as Chief Executive Officer.On 14th November 2011, Dr. Träm resigned as ADL CEO as ADL prepared a management buyout from the Altrangroup. He left ADL shortly after.[8] The MBO was completed on 30th December 2011 with the majority of ADLdirectors becoming partners. The firm will be led by a newly elected global CEO, Ignacio GARCIA ALVES, whowas also the leader of the MBO team. [9]

Since 2001, Arthur D. Little has successfully rebuilt its core practices in Oil & Gas, telecommunications, automotiveand manufacturing, and chemicals. Arthur D. Little continues to be very active and recognized for its expertise at thecrossroad of Technology, Innovation, and Strategy. It has been ranked as one of the top management consultingfirms. Arthur D. Little ranked 29th in the 2009 US Vault ranking and 13th in the European one.[10][11]

Arthur D. Little publishes a bi-annual thought leadership collection called PRISM.[12]

Country offices

•  Austria•  Belgium•  China•  Croatia•  Czech Republic

•  France•  Germany•  Italy•  Japan•  South Korea

•  Malaysia•  The Netherlands•  Portugal•  Saudi Arabia•  Spain

•  Sweden•  Switzerland•  United Arab Emirates•  United Kingdom•  United States

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CompetitorsADL most often competes directly for contracts with A.T. Kearney, Bain & Company, Booz & Company, theBoston Consulting Group, Monitor Group, McKinsey & Company

Notable current and former employeesBusiness• Bruce Henderson, founder of the Boston Consulting Group• Charles Koch, Chairman and chief executive officer, Koch Industries• Royal Little, founder of Textron, Inc.• Dr. Devendra Singh, strategist• Sam Malin, co-founder and CEO of Madagascar Oil• H. Donald Wilson, ADL lead consultant to and first president of LexisNexis database• Dipl.-Ing. Philipp Hess, Geschäftsführer (Managing Director) HANS HESS AUTOTEILE GmbH• Al Angrisani, Angrisani Turnarounds, LLC• William J. J. Gordon and George M. Prince, creators of synectics.Politics and public service• Merrill Cook, former member of the United States House of Representatives from Utah.• Glen Fukushima, advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton• James M. Gavin, US Army Lieutenant General, World War II veteran, Commander of the 82nd Airborne

Division, and later US Ambassador to France• David Brown [13], Chief Executive IChemE (Institution of Chemical Engineers)Other• Karl P. Stevenson, Arthur D. Little's President and Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Chemical and

Biological Warfare that in 1950 expedited the creation of Camp Detrick's Special Operations Division thatconsolidated chemical and biological warfare projects in one location.[14]

• Winnett Boyd, engineer• Fischer Black, economist• Philip Chapman, Australian-born American astronaut• Peter Glaser, inventor of the Solar power satellite• Raymond Hainer, chemist and mentor of Donald Schon• David Levy, inventor• Pamela Low, developed the flavored coating for Cap'n Crunch cereal• Donald Schön, academic• Peter Scott-Morgan, pioneer of techniques to reveal the hidden reality of how organizations and society behave• Jack Treynor, economist• Bernard Vonnegut, atmospheric scientist• Jean E. de Valpine, CEO of Memorial Drive Trust

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Noteworthy publications• Deschamps; Nayak, P. Ranganath (1995). Product Juggernauts: How Companies Mobilize to Generate a Stream

of Market Winners [15]. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. ISBN 0-87584-341-7. OCLC 31330407.• Public Finance Balance of Smoking in the Czech Republic, 2001• Roussel; Saad, Kamal N.; Erickson, Tamara J. (1991). Third Generation R & D: Managing the Link to Corporate

Strategy [16]. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. ISBN 0-87584-252-6. OCLC 22596604.• Scott-Morgan, Peter (1994). The Unwritten Rules of the Game: Master Them, Shatter Them, and Break Through

the Barriers to Organizational Change. McGraw Hill. ISBN 0-07-057075-2

References[1] "Arthur D. Little - About Us" (http:/ / www. adlittle. se/ about-us_se. html)[2] Scatter Acorns That Oaks May Grow: An Arthur D. Little Exhibit (http:/ / libraries. mit. edu/ archives/ exhibits/ adlittle/ history. html),

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Institute Archives and Special Collections, 2009-08-25,[3] Little, A.D.; Griffin, R.B., "The Chemistry of Paper-Making, together with the principles of general chemistry; a handbook for the student

and manufacturer" (http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=IihDAAAAIAAJ& printsec=frontcover), New York : Howard Lockwood & Co.,1894.

[4] Report: "On the Making of Silk Purses from Sows' Ears," 1921 (http:/ / libraries. mit. edu/ archives/ exhibits/ purse/ ), Massachusetts Instituteof Technology, The Institute Archives and Special Collections, 2009-08-25,

[5] "ADL History Timeline" (http:/ / www. adl. com/ fileadmin/ timeline/ timeline. html) - ADL[6] Photographs: Early Days/30 Memorial Drive, Cambridge/Arthur D. Little/Acorn Park, Cambridge (http:/ / libraries. mit. edu/ archives/

exhibits/ adlittle/ photographs. html), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Institute Archives and Special Collections, 2010-03-18,[7] Glater, Jonathan (2011-6-02). "Arthur D. Little Plans Bankruptcy Filing" (http:/ / www. nytimes. com/ 2002/ 02/ 06/ business/

arthur-d-little-plans-bankruptcy-filing. html). NY Times. . Retrieved 2012-7-26.[8] Altran website "The Group signed, on November 1st, 2011, a termsheet for an MBO concerning the disposal of Arthur D. Little due to be

finalised by the year-end" (http:/ / www. altran. com/ uploads/ tx_lpaltran/ Altran_20111102_CP_EN_01. pdf)[9][9] [http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120102005030/en/Arthur-D.-announces-successful-completion-Management-Buy-Out Business

Wire[10] "Top 50 Management and Strategy Consulting Firms 2009" (http:/ / cnszu. com/ top-50-management-and-strategy-consulting-firms/ ),

methodology by Vault.com. ADL is ranked 33rd.[11] Rankings of Management Consulting Firms in Germany 2008 (http:/ / www. luenendonk. de/ download/ press/ uk/

LUE_MB_List_2009_f040609_eng. pdf) - ADL was 17th[12] PRISM is available from its website http:/ / www. adl. com/ prism. html or free on demand from any of the corporate offices.[13] http:/ / www. icheme. org/ pr_and_media/ latest_news/ 24_10_06release. html[14] A Terrible Mistake:The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments A Terrible Mistake:The Murder of Frank Olson

and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments - H.P.Albarelli - July 1, 2009 - ISBN 0-9777953-7-3 (http:/ / aterriblemistake. com)[15] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=UEBs3SG2UycC[16] http:/ / books. google. com/ books?id=KjwAtPDluusC

• Eagar, Rick, “Who says it can't be done?” : A brief history of Arthur D. Little (http:/ / www. adl. com/ fileadmin/user_upload/ Prism_2006_s2_3_history-1. pdf), PRISM magazine, 2006 (issue for the 120th anniversary of thecompany)

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Further reading• James Adams (1992). Bull's eye: the assassination and life of supergun inventor Gerald Bull. (Chapter Seven)

Times Books.• Peter Herman (2006). Managing other people's business, but not our own. www.adlbook.com• E. J. Kahn, Jr. (1986). The Problem Solvers. Little Brown.

External links• Arthur D. Little Official website (http:/ / www. adl. com)• Arthur D. Little 125 yrs anniversary website (http:/ / www. adl. com/ 125years. html)• PRISM: bi-annual thought leadership collection (http:/ / www. adl. com/ prism. html)• Of Silk Purses and Lead Balloons (http:/ / adlittlechronicles. blogspot. com/ 2008/ 07/

of-silk-purses-and-lead-balloons. html)• ICHEME Official website (http:/ / www. icheme. org/ pr_and_media/ latest_news/ 24_10_06release. html)• Alumni Association (http:/ / www. adl. com/ alumni. html)• The Original ADL Alumni Association (http:/ / adlaa. org/ )• ADL Chronicles Products and Inventions from the ADL Labs (http:/ / adlittlechronicles. blogspot. com)• (http:/ / www. fuelcelltoday. com/ online/ industry-directory/ organisations/ ar/ Arthur-D-Little--Tiax-)

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