He spent 21 years at Arthur Andersen, rising to chairman of Andersen Consulting's oversight committee.
Since then, Christensen's client list has ballooned to include nontech clients like Merrill Lynchand Andersen Consulting.
Andersen Consulting reckons that, by 2010, 40% of Europe's electricity market will use gas.
Andersen Consulting billed Waste Management for Mr Allgyer's time while he was performing this service.
By 1997, the consultants had had enough: Andersen Consulting declared that it wanted out, and sought arbitration.
By the mid-1990s, Andersen Consulting had proved so successful that it had grown larger than its progenitor.
Timothy Belton left Andersen Consulting in 1997 to set up Express Custom Tailors, producing tailored menswear to order.
Shaheen quit his job running Andersen Consulting to take one running Webvan, the Foster City, California-based Internet grocery store.
Former Andersen Consulting head George Shaheen got headlines for leaving to become top dog at Webvan Group last September.
IT-based consultancies such as Andersen Consulting is forcing more traditional consultancies to rethink their basic assumptions about their business.
Why did George Shaheen, the well-paid head of Andersen Consulting, quit to take a job running a new on-line business?
George Shaheen quits his CEO post at Andersen Consulting for a fat swing at 9-digit Webvan wealth. (He'll get it, too.) The shocker?
They praise Andersen Consulting for introducing Harley-Davidson to Japanese manufacturing practices.
The agreement required Andersen Consulting to pay Arthur Andersen an annual fee, and stipulated a prohibitively expensive fine if the consultants ever sought to break loose.
That bodes ill for such services titans as Andersen Consulting and KPMG Consulting, which rely on ERP projects for as much as a third of their revenue.
On August 7th, an International Chamber of Commerce arbitrator delivered his verdict on the divorce between Andersen Consulting, a consultancy, and Arthur Andersen, a firm of accountants.
Accenture, once mocked for changing its name from Andersen Consulting, has escaped any blowback, reporting a slight revenue gain in the first quarter of its current fiscal year.
The future could belong to an outfit like Andersen Consulting.
Brian Cote of Andersen Consulting insists that shareholders, fed up with low returns, will punish firms that try to expand by adding capacity in an already glutted market.
No one's keeping track of how many billions of dollars these mother hens have raised, but the swelling brood includes Andersen Consulting, Monsanto, Panasonic, NASA and Sylvan Learning Systems.
The most traumatic has been the acrimonious divorce between Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting, two halves of what was once a single firm, which may be completed next year.
Tim Breene, of Andersen Consulting, says that more companies now realise brands are complex so getting the distribution, pricing and service right matters at least as much as a clever ad.
As Andersen Consulting's Mr Ferguson points out, once a firm is providing a service around a product, it may eventually find it more efficient to let someone else provide the product.
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Don't pay attention to that man in the interview Our national editor, Robert Lenzner, landed an interview a few weeks ago with George Shaheen, who had just quit Andersen Consulting to join Webvan, the on-line grocer.
But Data Distilleries has one big advantage: a strategic alliance with Accenture (previously Andersen Consulting), a global consulting group that also owns an equity stake and is busily putting its new partner in touch with senior managers in client companies.
It added, for good measure, that the snappily titled Arthur Andersen Business Consulting had been financed by its annual payments.
"Webvan was all about leveraging technology and reinventing the grocery business, just as Andersen had reinvented consulting, " Shaheen says.
Beyond its audit franchise, Andersen must shore up its consulting business, which has also become controversial.
Before he became a consultant and coach, Couper worked in human resources and training at several big companies in Chicago and Los Angeles, including the now-defunct consulting giant Arthur Andersen.
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