Booz Allen Hamilton: A Strategy and Technology Consulting Firm
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Helping government leaders take on complex issues
Government clients have trusted Booz Allen’s management, and technology consulting services for 70 years. Our insight, deep domain knowledge and market-leading capabilities help our clients be ready for what’s next.
As a trusted, long-term partner, Booz Allen works side by side with our clients, offering expert, objective advice to help solve their most important and complex problems.
Our approach to management and technology consulting combines deep domain expertise in defense, intelligence, and civilian government with strong capabilities in strategy, and organization, analytics, technology and operations. By leveraging both, Booz Allen anticipates, identifies and addresses our clients’ specific needs while looking for smart applications of our management and technology consulting solutions in the future.
Meeting your mission
Booz Allen is a committed partner not only to our clients, but also to the institution of government, the communities in which we work, and the global community. We leverage our management and technology consulting capabilities to help clients in a number of ways:
- Preparing for what’s next
- Engineering you programs
- Transforming your technology
- Informing your decisions
- Streamlining your operations
Advancing our government
We also work with leading organizations focused on improving and advancing our government—organizations like AFCEA, the Partnership for Public Service, and Business Executives for National Security. Together, we conduct studies, convene experts and stakeholders, and publish reports to proffer ideas that help government leaders take strides forward in achieving their mission.
Bettering our world
Beyond management and technology consulting, Booz Allen takes its role as good corporate citizen very seriously. Bettering our world is part of the fabric of the firm—whether through volunteerism, pro bono engagements, fundraising, corporate philanthropy, or activating the business community through service to the community—globally and locally.
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Living Our Core Values
Booz Allen’s core values form the basis of everything we do. The origins of Booz Allen’s commitment to culture and ethics trace back to the 1930s, when Carl Hamilton wrote the firm’s first formal code of ethics. By codifying our commitment to integrity and values, he set the course for the firm’s focus on culture and ethics that is still growing stronger today.
Booz Allen was one of the first organizations in the United States to adopt a formal statement of its business ethics, which translate into our 10 Core Values. Our collaborative culture is defined by business integrity, diversity and inclusion, and a strong spirit of service to clients and community. Staff members are expected to know and operate by all of the core values.
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Dr. Ralph W. Shrader
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President
Dr. Ralph W. Shrader is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., the leading strategy and technology consulting firm (annual revenue of more than $5 billion; 25,000 staff). He is the seventh Chairman since the firm's founding in 1914, and has led Booz Allen through a significant period of growth and strategic realignment.
Dr. Shrader's leadership philosophy and professional experience mirrors Booz Allen's mission — combining strategy with technology to deliver enduring results to clients. His personal consulting practice has centered on the global communications industry. He has led major assignments for telecommunications companies in the United States, Europe, and Latin America and was involved in Booz Allen's landmark work for AT&T at the time of divestiture. In the public sector, Dr. Shrader has led important programs for the US National Communications System and Defense Information Systems Agency, for the UN's International Telecommunications Union, and for government agencies in Latin America.
An active participant in public forums, Dr. Shrader has spoken on leadership, strategy, and technology at major international conferences and graduate business schools in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including those sponsored by the World Economic Forum, The Aspen Institute, The Conference Board, Yale School of Management, the University of Chicago, National Business & Disability Council, and The Women's Center. His views on leadership and business have been featured in major newspapers in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Dr. Shrader is active in professional and charitable organizations. He is past Chairman of the Board of the 40,000-member Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) and is the recipient of the association's highest honor, the David Sarnoff Award. He serves on the Board of Abilities, Inc., an organization dedicated to improving career opportunities for individuals with disabilities, and the Board of ServiceSource, the largest community rehabilitative program in Virginia, and is past Chairman of the Board of The Neediest Kids, Inc. charity. Dr. Shrader has been honored with leadership awards from the National Business & Disability Council, B’nai B’rith International, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and other organizations. In the arts, Dr. Shrader led Booz Allen’s sponsorship of the National Gallery of Art’s highly successful Edward Hopper exhibition and the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s widely-praised Norman Rockwell exhibition in Washington DC, and he presented the Rising Star Award in Dance at the Royal Ballet in London.
In his leadership roles, Dr. Shrader has been a strong proponent of opportunities for women and minorities. He sponsored a Board-level diversity initiative, has been an active supporter of employee forums, and received a special award from employees on the firm's Workforce Diversity Council. As Chairman of AFCEA International, he led efforts to improve opportunities for women and minorities in the communications and electronics fields. The association has established a scholarship program in Dr. Shrader's name to assist women and minority students pursuing graduate degrees in these fields of study.
Prior to his election as Chairman and CEO, Dr. Shrader was President of Booz Allen's Worldwide Technology Business, one of the firm's major business units, which he led through a period of significant growth in size and stature. Previously, he headed the technology division focused on telecommunications, information technology, and command, control, communications, computing, and intelligence (C4I).
Before he joined Booz Allen, Dr. Shrader was the National Director of Advanced Systems Planning for Western Union. Earlier, he served as a senior member of the technical staff with RCA's Government Communications System Division.
Dr. Shrader received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering, with minors in mathematics and nuclear physics, from the University of Illinois.
