Industry Management Consulting Services Management Consulting Founded 1984 | Key people Scott McDonald (CEO) Number of employees 4000 employees | |
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Revenue US$ 1.8 Billion in 2015 CEO Scott McDonald (1 Jan 2014–) Subsidiaries Lippincott & Margulies, Inc., Hemeria Sa Parent organization Marsh & McLennan Companies Profiles | ||
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Oliver Wyman is an international management consulting firm with a large focus on banking and financial services. Founded in 1984, the firm adopted its current form in May 2007, when Mercer Oliver Wyman joined with Mercer Management Consulting and Mercer Delta to become one firm named Oliver Wyman. Oliver Wyman is headquartered in New York City with 50+ offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific and employs over 4,000 professionals. It is currently the fourth biggest management consulting firm in the world in terms of revenue, ranking it just below Bain of the Big Three. It is part of the Oliver Wyman Group, which is a business unit of Marsh & McLennan.
Contents
- Consulting firms 101 tier 2 firms accenture oliver wyman lek etc video 3 of 3
- Oliver wyman our world
- History
- Oliver Wyman Group
- Offices
- Controversies
- Publications
- Non profit partnerships
- Notable alumni
- References
Oliver wyman our world
History
Oliver Wyman was formed in May 2007 through the combination of three global consulting businesses :
Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC) is the parent company of Oliver Wyman.
In 1984, Oliver, Wyman & Company was founded by Alex Oliver and Bill Wyman - former partners from Booz Allen Hamilton. From 1984 to 1995, Christopher Meyer was Vice President and Group Head at Mercer Management Consulting. In 2003, Oliver, Wyman & Company was bought by MMC and became part of its Mercer Consulting businesses under the name Mercer Oliver Wyman.
Mercer Management Consulting was formed through the combination of Temple, Barker & Sloane, which was founded in Boston in 1970 and acquired by MMC in 1987, and Strategic Planning Associates, which was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1972 and acquired by MMC in 1990. The two companies merged in 1990 as Temple, Barker & Sloane/Strategic Planning Associates, which was renamed Mercer Management Consulting in 1992.
Mercer Delta was founded in New York in 1980 by David Nadler as Delta Consulting and was acquired by MMC in 2000.
In recent years, Oliver Wyman has been growing rapidly both organically and through acquisitions. In 2008, it acquired several consulting firms, including: ChapterHouse, Academee(UK), Hemeria(France), Celent, and Harbour Consulting.
Oliver Wyman Group
Oliver Wyman is part of Oliver Wyman Group which also includes:
Offices
Oliver Wyman has more than 50 offices in 25 countries.
Controversies
It was reported that Oliver Wyman was the unnamed consulting firm that in 2005 recommended to Citigroup's "senior-most management" to expand parts of its fixed income business, including in collateralised debt obligations (CDO), which led to more than US$50 billion in losses and ultimately a rescue by the U.S. government. However, "people familiar with the analysis provided to Citi say it included ample warnings about the risks of diving into the structured product market, as well as other precautions that should be considered". At that time, Citigroup was led by Chuck Prince, a lawyer who had served as its general counsel and was described as having "relatively limited capital markets experience".
Citigroup was reportedly not the only bank that raised its exposure to CDO based on the advice of external consultants. It has been reported that UBS, based partly on a strategic review of fixed income business by Oliver Wyman, identified large growth potential in structured credit and securitized products and consequently expanded its exposure in these areas. UBS suffered heavy losses subsequently and had to be bailed out by the Swiss government.
Oliver Wyman in 2007 named Anglo Irish Bank as the best company in shareholder performance according to its proprietary assessment. In its report, Oliver Wyman lauded the bank's rapid growth of business lending, by an annual compound growth rate of 38% over 10 years. In the following year, the Irish Government was forced to nationalise the Bank at a cost of €25 billion. The Irish bank was liquidated in 2013 by the Irish government. In a criminal trial of two top executives of the bank, the judge called it "probably the most reviled institution in the state".
Publications
State of the Financial Services Industry 2016
This publication focused on how financial services are becoming “modular”, with digital distribution platforms, new product providers, alternative sources of capital and a growth in outsourcing fundamentally reshaping the industry.
Oliver Wyman Risk Journal, Volume 5
This publication studies emerging global risks and highlights those developing into pressing threats.
Volume-to-Value Revolution
This report depicts the current state of the healthcare industry and describes how the health marketplace will be redesigned from the patient’s perspective.
Energy Journal
This report reviews trends effecting the energy industry.
Women in Financial Services
This study reviewed the gender mix of senior staff at 150 financial services firms.
Non-profit partnerships
Oliver Wyman Group partners with non-profit organizations that work to improve the lives of people in the developing world through microfinance, healthcare, and education. Alliances with non-profits include: