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Arthur D. Little is an international management consulting firm originally headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 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 operating as a partnership. == Early history == The roots of the company were started in 1886 by Arthur Dehon Little, an MIT chemist, and co-worker Roger B. Griffin (Russell B. Griffin), another chemist and a graduate of the University of Vermont who had met when they both worked for Richmond Paper Company. Their new company, Little & Griffin, was located in Boston where MIT was also located. Griffin and Little prepared a manuscript for ''The Chemistry of Paper-making''〔Little, A.D.; Griffin, R.B., ("The Chemistry of Paper-Making, together with the principles of general chemistry; a handbook for the student and manufacturer" ), New York : Howard Lockwood & Co., 1894.〕 which was for many years an authoritative text in the area. The book had not been entirely finished when Griffin was killed in a laboratory accident in 1893.〔 Little, who had studied Chemistry at MIT, collaborated with MIT and William Hultz Walker of the MIT Chemistry department, forming a partnership, Little & Walker, which lasted from 1900 to 1905, while both MIT and Little's company were still located in Boston.〔 The partnership dissolved in 1905 when Walker dedicated his full-time to being in charge of the new Research Laboratory of Applied Chemistry at MIT.〔 Little continued on his own and formally incorporated the company, Arthur D. Little (ADL), in 1909.〔 He conducted analytical studies, the precursor of the consulting studies for which the firm would later become famous. He also taught papermaking at MIT from 1893 to 1916.〔 〕 In 1916 ADL was commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway to do a survey of Canada's natural resources.〔("ADL History Timeline" ) - ADL〕 In 1917, the company moved to a building of its own, the Arthur D. Little Inc., Building, at 30 Memorial Drive on the Charles River next to the campus of MIT which had moved to Cambridge from Boston in 1916.〔〔 〕 In November 1953, ADL opened a forty acre site for their Acorn Park labs in West Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Arlington, Massachusetts, which is about 6 miles (10 km) from MIT.〔 The Memorial Drive Trust, a tax-exempt retirement trust for the benefit of its employees was set up.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=COMPANY NEWS; Plenum Bidding for Arthur D. Little )〕 In 1981, ADL produced the European Commission's first white paper on telecommunications deregulation, having completed the first worldwide telecommunications database on phones installed, markets, technical trends, services and regulatory information.〔 It also helped privatize British Rail, generally regarded as one of the most complex privatization exercises in the world. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur D. Little」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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