Egon Zehnder International: Implementing Practice Groups

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Case

Reference no. 9-398-052

Subject category: Strategy and General Management

Authors: Carin-Isabel Knoop (Harvard Business School); Cate Reavis (Harvard Business School); Michael Y Yoshino (Harvard Business School)

Published by: Harvard Business Publishing

Originally published in: 1998

Version: 28 April 1998

Length: 22 pages

Data source: Field research

Topics: Consulting; Corporate culture; Decision making; Globalization; Growth strategy; Management of change

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Abstract

Since its creation in 1964, executive search firm Egon Zehnder International (EZI) marketed its consultants as 'generalists'. As searches became more global and industry-specific in the 1990s, CEO Daniel Meiland decided the firm needed to offer specialized services. By 1995, industry-specific practice groups were incorporated into EZI's organizational structure. The case examines how practice groups might affect EZI's ability to maintain its 'one firm' egalitarian philosophy. A rewritten version of an earlier case.

Location:

Global

Industry:

Consulting services

Size:

206 employees, USD202 million revenues

Other setting(s):

1998