How advice became an industry: Bower, strategy shops, MBB, the Big Four, and the tiers beneath them. Eight chapters on the history of professional counsel — not logo worship — ending with stewardship: when to hire, when not to, and how advice can build capacity or dependency.
8 chapters
- Why Advice Became an Industry
- Founders and Early Firms
- Marvin Bower and the Profession
- The Strategy Revolution
- MBB as a System
- The Big Four Enter
- Explosion, Tiers, and Specialization
- Stewardship and the Future of Advice
This is not a 16-chapter product. Path-choice material lives in the companion course Careers in Consulting.