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.
July 2008 — Booz Allen publishes “Alzheimer’s Disease Megacommunity: The Path Ahead,” a report from a strategic simulation the firm conducted in September 2007 in partnership with the Center for Health Transformation. The exercise identified four areas where collaboration among the public, private, and civil sectors is necessary to address the multifaceted challenges associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
August 2008 — The USO names Booz Allen a Worldwide Strategic Partner. The firm is developing a long-term strategic plan for the USO.
September 2008 — On the seventh anniversary of 9/11, Booz Allen supports the new Pentagon Memorial and contributes three benches in remembrance of colleagues lost in the terrorist attack: Gerald “Geep” Fisher, Terence Lynch, and Ernest Willcher.
September 2008 — For the tenth consecutive year, Working Mother magazine names Booz Allen one of the 100 Best Companies, citing the firm’s exceptional family-friendly employee benefits.
October 2008 — Booz Allen is named “Contractor of the Year” in the large company category among competitors with more than $300 million in annual revenue. The award recognizes the firm for distinguished financial and operational accomplishments and for outstanding contributions to its employees, the government contracting industry, and the US government, and is sponsored by the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, the Professional Services Council, and Washington Technology magazine.
October 2008 — Booz Allen Chairman and CEO Dr. Ralph W. Shrader gives a speech to the Association for Corporate Growth in which he identifies resilience — the ability to rise to the occasion and opportunity, whatever the future may bring — as key to company success.
October 2008 — The Thurgood Marshall College Fund recognizes Booz Allen and its CEO Ralph Shrader with its 2008 Corporate Leadership Award — the organization’s highest award — for the firm’s record of advancing the fund’s overall mission of developing a new generation of leaders.
October 2008 — Booz Allen’s Colorado Springs office receives a Partners in Philanthropy Award in the category of outstanding corporate philanthropic program from the Colorado Springs Center for Nonprofit Excellence.
November 2008 — For the third year in a row, Booz Allen is named one of the “Best Places to Launch a Career” by BusinessWeek magazine.
November 2008 — G.I. Jobs magazine includes Booz Allen on its list of the nation’s “Top 50 Most Military-Friendly Employers” for the third consecutive year.
November 2008 — Booz Allen Chairman & CEO Ralph Shrader participated in The Wall Street Journal CEO Council meeting in Washington D.C. He offers advice for CEOs on how to survive a tough economy in a video interview.
December 2008 — Business Executives for National Security partners with Booz Allen to stage a two-day strategic simulation exercise call the Cyber Strategic Inquiry 2008. The event brought together 230 government and business leaders to conduct a wargame that simulated a dramatic surge in computer attacks during a time of economic trouble, with multiple teams of participants having to find ways to mitigate the attacks.
December 2008 — The book Wargaming for Leaders: Strategic Decision Making from the Battlefield to the Boardroom, by Booz Allen Vice President Mark Herman and principals Mark Frost and Robert Kurz, is published by McGraw-Hill.
December 2008 — Booz Allen develops innovative Web-based educational materials with an unique storytelling format for a Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History exhibit called “Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th Century Chesapeake.”
December 2008 — For the third time, Booz Allen’s office in Metairie, Louisiana, is named a “2008 Best Place to Work” by CityBusiness, a leading business newspaper for metropolitan New Orleans.
December 2008 — The firm’s Charleston, South Carolina, office receives the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility.
December 2008 — Booz Allen volunteers in Colorado Springs partner with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Tracks Santa project to create a new Web site where children can monitor the progress of Santa and his reindeer on Christmas Eve.
