TY - BOOK AU - O'Shea,James AU - Madigan,Charles TI - Dangerous company: management consultants and the businesses they save and ruin SN - 081292634X AV - HD 69 O82d 1998 U1 - 658.46 PY - 1998/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Penguin Books KW - Business consultants KW - Consultores de negocio KW - Asesores de empresas KW - Administración de empresas N1 - "Updated with a new preface"--Cover; Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-332) and index; The price of advice : what does a half-billion dollars of consulting buy? -- The few, the proud, the totally insane : how consultants ran amok at Figgie International -- The jobs elimination festival : how Andersen Consulting moved into the big leagues -- Taming "the monster of the midway" : the rise, fall, and rise again of Sears -- "A medicine man in a room full of funeral directors" : how Boston Consulting Group packages and peddles ideas -- Trying to make gold from lead : Gemini and the transformation fad -- Too close for comfort : inside the secret, influential world of Bain & Co. -- The gold boys' network : power and glory and McKimsey -- Keeping dangerous company : caveat emptor ER -