Arthur D. Little

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Arthur D. Little is an international management consulting firm originally headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and formally incorporated by that name in 1909 by Arthur Dehon Little, an MIT chemist who had discovered acetate. Arthur D. Little pioneered the concept of contracted professional services. The company played key roles in the development of business strategy, operations research, the word processor, the first synthetic penicillin, LexisNexis, and NASDAQ. Today the company is a multi-national management consulting firm.Arthur D. Little is the world's earliest management consulting services firm. The roots of the company were started in 1886 by Arthur Dehon Little, an MIT chemist, and co-worker Roger B. Griffin, another chemist and a graduate of the University of Vermont who had met when they both worked for Richmond Paper Company in East Providence, Rhode Island