420 W. 118th Street, Room 420 New York, NY 10027 P: 212-854-4613 • F: 212-854-6190 www.sipa.columbia.edu/ocs ____________________________________________________________________________________________ CONSULTING- BOUTIQUE FIRMS Management and Business Strategy Consulting APCO Worldwide APCO Worldwide is a consulting firm advising clients across the converging worlds of business, industry and finance, media, public opinion and society, and government and public policy. www.apcoworldwide.com Athens Group Athens Group is an exploration and production consulting firm established in 1998 by a group of highly experienced consultants. The Athens Group has assisted international companies such as BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Maersk, Noble Drilling, Pride, Shell, and Stena Drilling. www.athensgroup.com Charles River Associates (CRA) CRA International is a leading global consulting firm that offers economic, financial, and business management expertise to major law firms, industries, accounting firms, and governments around the world. www.crai.com Dexis Consulting Group Dexis is a consulting group of economic development practitioners that work in social innovation and local leadership for both public and private clients in over 45 regions worldwide. www.dexisonline.com ECG Consulting Group Inc ECG provides its U.S. and international clients with business strategy and development, strategic market planning, and technology commercialization services. ECG clients are primarily located in the advanced materials, energy, environmental, information technology, instrumentation, services, utility, and related industry. www.ecgconsulting.com Imnex International Imnex is a premier one-stop-shop for clients interested in growing international sales, effecting cross-border mergers and acquisitions, making foreign direct investments, launching joint ventures, and engaging in strategic alliances, especially between the United States and the countries of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Turkey. www.imnexinternational.com Intellilink Intellilink is a software solutions and management consulting firm that works within Marketing, HR, and IT departments to improve productivity. Intellilink solves complex business problems in areas such as; talent management, workforce effectiveness, project management, IT governance and business intelligence across a wide variety of industries including; financial services, aerospace and defense, management consulting, advertising, pharmaceuticals, business services, and software development. www.intellilink.com Jan Consulting Group, LLP Jan Consulting Group, LLP provides services in the area of growth strategy, mergers and acquisitions, financial advisement, organizational development, sales and marketing strategy for emerging growth and nonprofit companies. www.janconsultinggroup.com Updated 5/15 M Squared Consulting M Squared serves a wide range of clients, from Fortune 100 to emerging businesses, across many industries, helping to ensure they achieve their business goals. They provide expertise in the following areas: program and project management, business process optimization, change management and communications and service clients across a wide range of industries, and have dedicated vertical teams including Financial Services, Healthcare, Technology, and Energy. www.msquared.com Marakon Marakon works with the boards and senior management teams of multinationals as well as large and medium sized corporations to help them deliver superior results and accelerated value growth. Many of Marakon's long-standing clients rank amongst the world's most respected companies. www.marakon.com MarketBridge MarketBridge is the leading global professional services firm focused solely on sales and marketing effectiveness by working with Fortune 500 and high-growth companies to create new go-to-market strategies, lead operational transformations, and manage in-market programs. www.market-bridge.com McCreight & Company, Inc McCreight & Company is a strategy implementation consulting firm which is focused on ensuring the competitive advantages of its clients worldwide, through engagements with management and the board of directors, by defining talent and technology requirements, by designing and sustaining strategic change processes, and by identifying and guiding the mitigation of strategy implementation obstacles. www.implementstrategy.com Nathan Associates Nathan Associates is an economic consulting firm whose economists and financial analysts provide services through their four main business units of litigation consulting, infrastructure planning and economics, international development, and business and industry specific consulting. www.nathaninc.com NERA Economic Consulting NERA Economic Consulting is a global firm of experts dedicated to applying economic, finance, and quantitative principles to complex business and legal challenges. With its main office in New York City, NERA serves clients from more than 20 offices across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. www.nera.com The Nottingham Group, LLC The Nottingham Group is a boutique consulting firm of financial professionals that provides forensic accounting, litigation support, and business investigation services. www.nottinghamgroup.com Novantas, Inc Novantas offers management consulting and information services to clients mostly in the retail banking, corporate and institutional banking, wealth and brokerage, insurance, and payments sectors. Their customers vary across many industries including utilities, gaming and online services markets www.novantas.com Partners for Corporate Recruiting Partners for Corporate Recruiting specializes in solving the human capital needs of organizations experiencing growth and change. www.partnerscr.com Updated 5/15 Rockford Consulting Group Rockford Consulting Group is a manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain management strategy and operations management consulting firm including manufacturing, logistics, global sourcing, information systems, purchasing, and distribution offering state-of-the-art technologies and services world-wide. www.rockfordconsulting.com The Whitaker Group, LLC The Whitaker Group, LLC, a team of security professionals offering risk solutions, is a service, licensed and insured investigation, security and management services consulting firm. This group specializes in servicing clients in the insurance industry, law firms, large corporations and businesses, governmental agencies, and individuals. www.examinerisk.com William Kent International Inc William Kent International (WKI) is a management consulting firm that specializes in international strategy development and investment for Fortune 1000 companies. www.wkint.com Public Sector Consulting Artemis Consulting, LLC Artemis Consulting, LLC is a business consulting firm dedicated to providing superior financial and program management consulting services to clients within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). www.consultartemis.com Callund Consulting Limited (CCL) Callund Consulting is a boutique consulting firm of economists and public sector specialists providing dedicated advice to governments and industry on all aspects of pensions and social security reform. Callund’s expertise covers the full reform cycle and their clients are primarily governments in transition and developing economies. www.callund.com Fundraising and Nonprofit Consulting CCS Fundraising CCS is one of the most comprehensive and widely recommended fund-raising consulting and management firms in the world. CCS designs and implements significant fund-raising campaigns and programs for leading non-profit institutions. www.ccsfundraising.com Changing our World, Inc Changing our World serves as the trusted advisor to the world’s leading nonprofit organizations, private and corporate foundations, philanthropic individuals and corporations. www.changingourworld.com Fiscal Management Associates (FMA) Fiscal Management Associates provides a range of fiscal consulting services to clients in the nonprofit sector. Services include accounting, bookkeeping, audit preparation, budgeting, cost analysis, and grants management. FMA also provides support in the areas of accounting software, defining fiscal staff roles and responsibilities, fiscal policies and procedures, internal controls, and fiscal training and coaching for staff and boards. www.fmaonline.net Goodale Associates Goodale Associates specializes in fund-raising and management counseling for nonprofit organizations. www.tkgoodale.com Updated 5/15 Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) 451 Research 451 Research, a division of The 451 Group, acquired Yankee Group Consulting in 2013 and delivers advice to leaders looking to seize growth in the global connectivity revolution. www.yankeegroup.com Analysys Mason Analysys Mason is an internet-based provider of business information about technology, media and the telecom industry; providing data, information, and advice to 50,000 clients worldwide. www.analysysmason.com Futron Corporation Futron provides decision management solutions to organizations throughout the aerospace and telecommunications industries. www.futron.com Ovum Ltd Ovum consults across telecoms, IT services and software. Global clients range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies and governments. They include IT vendors, IT service providers, technology user organizations, telecom operators, regulators, equipment suppliers, consultancies, and investors. www.ovum.com Cape Venture Partners (CVP) Cape Venture Partners (CVP) provides investment advisory services to clients in the Technology, Media, and Telecom industries dealing with a changing business and technology landscape. It works in partnership with clients by offering experienced industry consultants and using best practices. www.cvp.co.za Panurgy Panurgy was founded in 1984 with the goal of creating a company that would specialize in meeting the technical needs of small and mid-size companies who needed quality network services but didn’t have the full IT departments and IT budgets to do it themselves. www.panurgy.com REMTCS REMTCS is a boutique consulting firm that specializes in information systems for banking, private banking, wealth and portfolio management, brokerage, health care, bio tech, and insurance firms applying a solid business foundation to solving technology needs. www.remtcs.com Updated 5/15