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History of Booz Allen 2008
January 2008 — Booz Allen leaders participate in a number of panels, meetings, and studies at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, in Davos, Switzerland, the world’s premier gathering for senior executives of major corporations, heads of governments, and thought leaders from academia, business, institutions, and public policy. January 2008 — Booz Allen and the World Economic Forum’s Global Heath Initiative release Public–Private Partnerships in Health, a comprehensive study that identifies the conditions under which public–private partnerships are the right form of collaboration and what optimizes success. January 2008 — As part of a pro bono engagement for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Booz Allen helps create a digital asset management strategy that will provide unparalleled access to the largest, most comprehensive natural history collection in the world. January 2008 — For the fourth consecutive year, Fortune magazine names Booz Allen to its “Best Companies to Work For” list, citing the firm’s policy of contributing 10% of each employee’s pay into 401(k)s, whether or not the employee contributes, as one factor that helped put the firm on the list. January 2008 — Ford’s Theatre, the Washington, D.C., landmark where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, recognizes Booz Allen and the pro bono work the firm provided to the organization, which included a comprehensive growth plan designed to revitalize the theater. February 2008 — Training magazine inducts Booz Allen into its exclusive “Training Top 10 Hall of Fame.” The firm qualified for the honor by raking in the top 10 of the magazine’s top 125 companies that demonstrate excellence in workforce training and development for at least four consecutive times. February 2008 — Shumeet Banerji is named the leader of Booz Allen’s Global/Commercial Business. March 2008 — At the 2008 Black Engineer of the Year Awards, Booz Allen Senior Vice President Reginald Van Lee is named the 2008 Black Engineer of the Year, the program’s most prestigious award. Eight other Booz Allen employees also received awards at the event, which showcases African American achievement in science, technology, and engineering. March 2008 — The second annual edition of the Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report, publish by the World Economic Forum in cooperation with Booz Allen (which provided strategic design) and other partners, ranks 130 countries according to their appeal for developing the travel and tourism sector. March 2008 — In their new book Megacommunities: How Leaders of Government, Business, and Non-Profits Can Tackle Today’s Global Challenges Together, Booz Allen senior vice presidents Mark Gerencser and Reginald Van Lee and vice presidents Fernando Napolitano and Christopher Kelly introduce a new framework for addressing the world’s most complex problems that involves leaders reaching across national and sector divisions to form collaborative “megacommunities.” March 2008 — Employees number 21,000 and total sales reach US$4.8 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008. April 2008 — The US Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy CIO, presents Booz Allen with the inaugural Industry Organization DoD Enterprise Architecture Achievement Award for the firm’s work on the Department of Navy Architecture Federation Pilot project. April 2008 — The World Affairs Council of Great Richmond presents the 2008 Virginia Global Business Ambassador Award to Booz Allen as an organization whose outstanding business practices also reflect positively on the US and its values. April 2008 — In collaboration with the National Park Service and the Gettysburg Foundation, Booz Allen provides pro bono consulting expertise to help the foundation develop a modern communications strategy, centered on a new Web site, to more effectively reach a broader audience. May 2008 — Booz Allen and the Partnership for Public Service release Getting On Board: A Model for Integrating and Engaging New Employees, a report that assesses how the US federal government can best “onboard” new civil servants. May 2008 — Booz Allen’s Huntsville, Alabama, office is named a “Best Place to Work” in the region. Winners were evaluated in a number of areas, including team effectiveness, retention probability, trust among co-workers, and work engagement. June 2008 — For the second consecutive year, Hawaii Business magazine names Booz Allen one of the state's "Best Places to Work." June 2008 — Computerworld magazine includes Booz Allen on its list of the "100 Best Places to Work in IT." July 2008 — For the fourth consecutive year, Booz Allen is a major sponsor of the Aspen Ideas Festival, a premier gathering place for leaders from around the globe and across many disciplines to discuss the ideas, issues, and challenges of our time. Booz Allen officers moderated or participated in panels on topics including "Why Change the Military? New Adversaries, New Technologies, and a New Generation of Soldiers," "Looking to the Future: Staying Healthy Is the Way to Prevent Cancer and Heart Disease,' and "Food, Fuel, and Famine: Will Biofuels Starve Us or Save Us?" July 2008 — The San Antonio Business Journal ranks Booz Allen's local office among the top 10 of its "Best Places to Work" list for the third consecutive year. July 2008 — Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. completed the separation of its US government and global commercial businesses, as well as the sale of a majority stake in the US government consulting business, which will retain the name Booz Allen Hamilton, to The Carlyle Group for $2.54 billion.
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